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Posted By: peter chao

Jim, Dale

I agree that it's necessary to enforce the rules and that players should be banned from the Hall of Fame for the breach of certain rules. But players should not be banned simply because they are suspected users of steroids. Only in a situation like Rafael Palmeiro's should they be banned from the HOF.

Palmeiro stated at a congressional hearing that he did not use steroids. Later, he failed a MLB drug test. It's pretty clear he fails to display the requisite moral character to be a member of the Hall of Fame. Actually, for Hall of Fame induction to be a fairer process, they really should make it clearer what they mean by moral character. For instance, should tax evasion or wife-beating be taken into account.

What baseball needs is a stronger leader than Bud Selig, his attitude seems to be MLB is generating good money, I'm going to play it safe by doing nothing. Hey...come to think of it Joanne would make a better commissioner than Mr. Selig.

Peter