An Epiphany about performance enhancing drugs and modern baseball; I don't know why this didn't occur to me a few years ago. Here's what will eventually happen.
The pitchers and position players from the ARod, Bonds, Clemons, McGuire, Sosa, Giambi (I'll stop there, but obviously we could all add to that list) era, none of them will get into the Hall in the near future. We fans, and the sportswriters, are still a bit sore about the whole thing. The sportswriters will not vote for them because the 4th estate deems themselves competent to mete out punishment (fools that they are). But eventually, with the passage of about 2 more decades, a movement will start. It will say that the Hall is incomplete, for they've overlooked those good stars that played the game at the beginning of the 21st century. Good players, overlooked and left out. The movement will say that the pitchers who used PED's were having to pitch to players using PED's, and conversely, and so their statistics are a wash. It's not like only pitchers got to use PED's, or only batters got to use PED's. So the stats stand... besides, some of what was used was legal at the time. So in fairness to all, and to have the Hall be complete, they'll put some of those guys in. A few of us will be gone then, some won't have wits enough to realize its happened, a few won't care, and a few will write a letter to someone (if they still have letters then), or tweet or email or something. But it won't matter. They'll all be in the Hall, except for maybe Roger, because of his trial...
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