PS...Henderson, Rice and Dawson all will get in. Sorry Bert....but it'll be another disappointment for ya...maybe you should have tried 'roids.

Hallejuliah, Jim Rice finally made it into the Hall of Fame!!! Sure is about time!!!!!

Thanks for the Gordon Edes link, which I'd avoided earlier when arriving at the Yahoo MLB page.
As you might guess, I'm a Cardinal fan, but I am firmly against voting Mark McGwire into the Hall of Fame. I consider his drug-powered years as a Cardinal, and Tony LaRussa's frequent assertions that Mac's career was steroid-free (assertions which seem like they will be at least an annual thing before HOF voting time), to be stains on the team, ongoing ones.
Sure, in 1998 I fell under the spell of the home run race, but only partly, since even the "weaker" PEDs Mac did admit to, they were tainting his ongoing achievement. Still, you couldn't help getting amazed by the way he crushed the ball--just the immediate sensation, not what was behind it. I mean, I even felt a little thrilled more than once to see Sammy send one out onto Sheffield--just the immediate sensation, before I caught myself and again became mindful of the team behind it!
Edes says he can't be a judge of who in the Steroids Era was clean and who was not. Wrong--you =can=judge certain of the players, especially those who became such giants of the sport due to wrong substances. You can penalize them not only for a "single bad decision" or however Edes put it, but for an ongoing, career-sustaining, career-superpowering-up lifestyle of =many= such bad decisions. Furthermore, you practically have the =responsibility= to penalize them for failing to come clean about their dirtiness, a failure that multiplies the original offense.

No way am I going to kill myself with alcohol poisoning by chugging an entire bottle of whiskey when Ricky says he's still ready to play! No way! Who do you think I am? Jim AKA The Wako Kid?
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