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Bans, Steriods, Asterisks: What Future Lies Ahead For the Baseball Hall of Fame?

 
With the 2009 Baseball Hall of Fame induction coming up, you have sit back and wonder how baseball got this crazy. Seriously, just look at the ballot. Two players from the Mitchell Report are on the ballot. They are Mo Vaughn are Matt Williams. Plus, Mark McGwire is on the ballot. Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are sure to be on ballots in years to come. Many famous players have been accused of using steroids, Bonds and Clemens included. Some of those players are still playing, including Miguel Tejada and Jason Giambi. If Clemens did take performance enhancing drugs, he wouldn't have won 354. By the time he supposedly took them, he had around 230 wins. All I can say about McGwire is that if you have only 1626 hits, yet clubbed 583 homers during your career and hit a home runs almost every ten at-bats, you are on something. Bonds, has been accused of steroids for so long it's ridiculous. He was also convicted of lying under oath ... (link)

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