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    Re: John Fay Abstains from HOF Voting to Avoid Casting Votes for Bonds and Clemens

    Quote Originally Posted by AtomicDumpling View Post
    If all we ever do to punish the criminals who cheated the game and the fans is deny a few stars induction to the Hall of Fame then most of the worst offenders of the Steroid Era will have gotten away scot free.
    I think here is the conceptual diversion on the issue, IMO. Some consider excluding some of the players from the HOF as "punishment" or "denying" them some right they have "earned" with their performance (a part of which, is from cheating, we can speculate how much but never know until we send McFly back to steal Barry's syringes).
    No, the induction is an honor. Its totally optional.

    The argument that because we can't get Selig or the writers or the others who had a part in this, we should HONOR Clemens and Bonds (and the others...), doesn't make sense to me.

    And yes, people who played a big part in the phenomenon and the cover up will get away. But maybe someone will think twice about cheating or covering up in the future.

    People forget that the Black Sox Eight were acquitted in a court of law. The participation of several in the fix was debatable. And there was a cover-up that supposedly involved many others (yes, writers too).

    Judge Landis kicked them all out of baseball. He didn't get all the players who threw games before or after. He didn't get the writers or the owners who covered up all the cheating. By all accounts, gambling was an epidemic then much like steroids were recently (steroids may still be).
    Landis didn't get all the cheaters and he may have even banished an "innocent" or two and/or a "not totally guilty" one. But he was right.

    If all we get from the steroid cheating epidemic is Bonds and Clemens looking at the HOF from the outside in, it won't be much at all.
    But the alternative is nothing.
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    You mean lack of opinion, right?
    I keep hoping when I pull up Redzone, that this thread is at the bottom of the page. One of the more uninteresting, over argued threads, I've seen.

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    I keep hoping when I pull up Redzone, that this thread is at the bottom of the page. One of the more uninteresting, over argued threads, I've seen.
    And yet, you've posted at least 4 times in the thread

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    And yet, you've posted at least 4 times in the thread
    If I did, it was the same statement each time.

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    Re: John Fay Abstains from HOF Voting to Avoid Casting Votes for Bonds and Clemens

    Quote Originally Posted by oneupper View Post
    I think here is the conceptual diversion on the issue, IMO. Some consider excluding some of the players from the HOF as "punishment" or "denying" them some right they have "earned" with their performance (a part of which, is from cheating, we can speculate how much but never know until we send McFly back to steal Barry's syringes).
    No, the induction is an honor. Its totally optional.

    The argument that because we can't get Selig or the writers or the others who had a part in this, we should HONOR Clemens and Bonds (and the others...), doesn't make sense to me.

    And yes, people who played a big part in the phenomenon and the cover up will get away. But maybe someone will think twice about cheating or covering up in the future.

    People forget that the Black Sox Eight were acquitted in a court of law. The participation of several in the fix was debatable. And there was a cover-up that supposedly involved many others (yes, writers too).

    Judge Landis kicked them all out of baseball. He didn't get all the players who threw games before or after. He didn't get the writers or the owners who covered up all the cheating. By all accounts, gambling was an epidemic then much like steroids were recently (steroids may still be).
    Landis didn't get all the cheaters and he may have even banished an "innocent" or two and/or a "not totally guilty" one. But he was right.

    If all we get from the steroid cheating epidemic is Bonds and Clemens looking at the HOF from the outside in, it won't be much at all.
    But the alternative is nothing.
    Denying someone an honor they have otherwise earned is a punishment.

    Secondly, I was not arguing that the steroids users should be inducted in the HOF.

    My point was that the very people who are belatedly vilifying the steroids cheaters also benefited from and were complicit in the steroids scandal themselves. I was drawing attention to their hypocrisy and self-righteousness.

    If we are going to leave Bonds, Clemens and the other steroids users out of the Hall of Fame (which is OK by me), then we should also leave out the other people who also benefited from the cheating, who turned a blind eye and allowed it to continue, who could have stopped the cheating but chose not to -- folks like Bud Selig, Tony LaRussa, Walt Jocketty, Dusty Baker, Billy Beane, Joe Torre and the other managers, GMs and league officials who saw the cheating and did nothing to stop it. These people clearly gained a huge advantage over their competition due to steroid cheating but their reputations have remained largely untouched.

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    Re: John Fay Abstains from HOF Voting to Avoid Casting Votes for Bonds and Clemens

    Quote Originally Posted by Vottomatic View Post
    If I did, it was the same statement each time.
    But...why? If people want to talk about this, and you don't like it, why go into the thread? Is your purpose to make people stop talking about it because you don't find it interesting? That isn't very cool.

    In any event, I don't have a conceptual problem, still, with the players who cheated with steroids not making it into the Hall for now, or ever, for that matter. I don't have a conceptual problem, either, with "punishment", if that's what people want to call it, falling on the poster boys for the steroid use. Yes, all benefited, but its not like anyone is asking McGwire or Sosa or Bonds or Clemens to give back millions of dollars in salary they earned while using, and other than the Bonds/Clemens perjury things (which was over truthy issues), no one is trying to put them in jail.

    If the one "sanction" if you will, of that era, is that the poster boys don't get enshrined, if that's the one line that isn't crossed, so be it. Its okay with me that there is some line in the sand, even at this late date, that says that what happened was wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AtomicDumpling View Post
    I agree. These sportswriters didn't have a problem with steroids at the time when they were writing widely-read articles that glorified these PED abusers during the height of the steroid era. The writers made a lot of money singing the praises of the cheaters back then, now they want to make more money by vilifying those same players now.

    The sportswriters should have exposed the scandal 15 years ago, but they chose to ride the wave of baseball's resurgence after the lock-outs and strikes had the game in the doldrums. All the people who are now decrying the use of performance enhancing drugs are the same people that benefited from the cheating. The Commissioner, the Hall of Fame, the owners, the media, the managers and the players (and even many fans) all knew about the cheating while it was going on and did nothing about it because they were all indirectly benefiting from it too. Now they all pretend to be outraged.

    The cheating players got away with it because they were permitted to get away with it by the watchkeepers turning a blind eye. Steroids fueled a gravy train that fed a lot of hungry mouths. Now some of those mouths are speaking out in a holier-than-thou fashion and acting as if they themselves weren't complicit in the perpetration of the crimes they now decry.
    Well said. Exactly how I feel.

    I still remember the summer of 1998 when the front page of the sports section of the Enquirer had daily updates of Sosa and McGwire (and for a while, Griffey)'s respective home run totals. It was one of the most widely covered sporting events that I can remember off hand.

    Now that the Scrooge McDuck vaults are full enough to swim through, the sportswriters are up in arms about the disrespect to the game.

    There is absolutely no way that people knew so little in 1998 that there were no accusations, and then after these players retire the evidence becomes so overwhelming that these players humongous black spots on their records that may keep some of the most dominant players ever to play the sport out of the hall of fame.
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    Clemens before 2000

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    Haha. Why did you use 2000 as the cutoff? Clemens was obviously juicing when he went to the Blue Jays in 1997.

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    I think this thread is a good example of an issue that everyone just isn't going to agree on. There is a ton of blame that can be spread around to players, writers, coaches, team owners, sponsors, fans, coaches, TV networks, etc etc. Everyone was complicit. OK. And there is a plethora of differing (and strongly held) opinions as the degree of rightness and wrongness of the issue.

    Not to get all U-S-A, U-S-A about it, but I think the democratic process just needs to be followed with a healthy debate and the writers (or whoever) vote their damn vote however their conscience dictates. If writers are waiting for guidelines from MLB or the HoF or whoever from it, so be it. But I don't think that will matter much. I think writers will pretty much ignore that (except for a handfull like Fay) and vote what they think.
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    I certainly wasn't arguing that steroid usage was acceptable.

    My point was that everyone involved with baseball is to blame for the steroids fiasco. The players bear more blame than anyone else, but the commissioner, the managers, the team owners and the media were all aware of the abuse of PEDs but they allowed it to continue and in effect encouraged it by rewarding the players who cheated. It was a league-wide systemic cancer that infected every facet of the game of baseball. Isolating a few star players and pinning a pathetically weak penalty on to them is just another way to gloss over the problem.

    Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens didn't ruin the game all by themselves. They were merely pawns in a much bigger game of chess. It just strikes me as short-sighted to single out a few stars for punishment. The biggest beneficiaries of the steroid era were Commissioner Bud Selig, the owners and the media (especially TV networks) who enjoyed the financial windfall generated by the spike in baseball's popularity during that era. They would never have done anything about PEDs if the US Congress had not forced their hand. If all we ever do to punish the criminals who cheated the game and the fans is deny a few stars induction to the Hall of Fame then most of the worst offenders of the Steroid Era will have gotten away scot free.
    I'm not sure anyone was arguing "lets punish Bonds and Clemens, that'll show 'em." However, if there any two that were most obviously users, it is them. So, if only those two got left out of the HOF that otherwise would have gotten in based on their numbers, it would be just.
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    It may be a bit simplistic to judge all the administrative players here, such as the commissioner, owners, GMs, field managers guilty because they allegedly turned a blind eye for riches. This was a lot more dynamic issue than a get rich quick scheme. Sure, it was a great motivator, but then I think the players are the ones with the most to gain financially from their usage in the game. I don't think it was a conspiracy, but a failure to pay the price for doing the right thing, as far as management goes.

    It is really a stretch to start naming GMs and managers as tainted. If it was as widespread as is assume, then I'm not sure that GMs and managers had a lot of financial motivation for not whistleblowing. The GM and manager do not really have the job of "growing the business," they are trying to field a winning team by selecting the best available players. That is on the Commish, his minions in MLB, and owners.
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    Quote Originally Posted by traderumor View Post
    It may be a bit simplistic to judge all the administrative players here, such as the commissioner, owners, GMs, field managers guilty because they allegedly turned a blind eye for riches. This was a lot more dynamic issue than a get rich quick scheme. Sure, it was a great motivator, but then I think the players are the ones with the most to gain financially from their usage in the game. I don't think it was a conspiracy, but a failure to pay the price for doing the right thing, as far as management goes.

    It is really a stretch to start naming GMs and managers as tainted. If it was as widespread as is assume, then I'm not sure that GMs and managers had a lot of financial motivation for not whistleblowing. The GM and manager do not really have the job of "growing the business," they are trying to field a winning team by selecting the best available players. That is on the Commish, his minions in MLB, and owners.
    For the GMs and managers it wasn't about "growing the business", it was about winning games and keeping their jobs. Managers like Tony LaRussa made their reputations and their fortunes and built their Hall of Fame resumes by managing teams that were loaded with steroid users. You can't tell me that Tony LaRussa wasn't aware that his players in Oakland and St. Louis were juicing. Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire, Jim Edmonds and the others? If LaRussa's teams had not been using steroids how many games would they have won? How many championships? Would LaRussa still be considered a HOF manager if his teams had not cheated year after year?

    Keep in mind, during the biggest part of the steroid era most of the cheating players were concentrated on just a handful of dishonest teams. The Cardinals, Athletics, Rangers and Yankees were chock full of cheaters, the Giants had one big one and so did the Cubs. All those cheating teams flourished during that time while the honest teams suffered. Teams like the Reds had nobody on steroids or comparatively little steroid usage in any case. What if the Reds' management had encouraged or allowed their players to use steroids? Would it have resulted in more wins? Probably so. The honest people got screwed while the cheaters prospered. It wasn't until the tail end of the steroid era that usage became widespread around the league. Too many players saw the cheaters thriving without any consequences, so more and more players gave in to the temptation.

    It wasn't just the players who cheated. The managers, general managers, owners, the commissioner's office and the media were all aware of it. They didn't try to stop it. They benefitted from it. They allowed it to continue and even encouraged it by rewarding the cheaters financially. The media and the commissioner's office actively buried the story for a decade. Even now only a few of the players and none of the coaches and executives have taken heat over their cheating. Baseball and the media are still protecting many other dishonest people who participated in the cheating. Punishing Bonds, Clemens, McGwire and Sosa by denying them induction into the Hall of Fame is fine with me, but let's not pretend that is a fitting end to the Steroid Era. Those players are just the fall guys -- they take the blame and all the other guilty parties get off scot free. It is just another way for MLB and the media to pull the wool over our eyes.
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    Not to get all U-S-A, U-S-A about it, but I think the democratic process just needs to be followed with a healthy debate and the writers (or whoever) vote their damn vote however their conscience dictates. If writers are waiting for guidelines from MLB or the HoF or whoever from it, so be it. But I don't think that will matter much. I think writers will pretty much ignore that (except for a handfull like Fay) and vote what they think.
    Usually I would want the voters to be writers who covered the athletes during their careers, but in this case I would prefer if the voting was handled by a group of writers who were not present during the height of the Steroid Era. I think those writers who covered baseball during the Steroid Era--but did little to uncover it--have lost the pivilege to vote...

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    Re: John Fay Abstains from HOF Voting to Avoid Casting Votes for Bonds and Clemens

    Quote Originally Posted by AtomicDumpling View Post

    Keep in mind, during the biggest part of the steroid era most of the cheating players were concentrated on just a handful of dishonest teams. The Cardinals, Athletics, Rangers and Yankees were chock full of cheaters, the Giants had one big one and so did the Cubs. All those cheating teams flourished during that time while the honest teams suffered. Teams like the Reds had nobody on steroids or comparatively little steroid usage in any case. What if the Reds' management had encouraged or allowed their players to use steroids? Would it have resulted in more wins? Probably so. The honest people got screwed while the cheaters prospered. It wasn't until the tail end of the steroid era that usage became widespread around the league. Too many players saw the cheaters thriving without any consequences, so more and more players gave in to the temptation.
    I don't know if we can be confident that the Reds or any other team had few if any PEDS users during the steroids era. That said, the above post does express what was so wrong about the era: The honest people got screwed while the cheaters prospered.
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    Re: John Fay Abstains from HOF Voting to Avoid Casting Votes for Bonds and Clemens

    We're crazy to think the PED era is over. Ryan Braun (I don't care that he got off on a technicality), Melky Cabrera, Yasmani Grandal and Bartolo Colon are a few of the guys that have been busted in just the last year. Also, it was only 2 years ago when Manny Ramirez, Edinson Volquez and others were busted.

    Don't forget: MLB still doesn't test for HGH, which is the new-age steroid. And I'm sure the players are doing things (taking things) we're not even aware of. Then you have guys who are flat-out still taking steroids (like Grandal and Cabrera) just because they're willing to risk getting caught and "only" miss 50 games.


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