Sammy Sosa Is a Joke and He Does Not Deserve Induction Into The HOF

  The New York Times reported last week that former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa was on a list of 103 players who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003. Sosa, 40, a seven-time All-Star selection and six-time Silver Slugger Award winner, helped revitalize the game of baseball in 1998 when he and fellow juicehead Mark McGwire pursued Roger Maris’ home run record. “Slamming Sammy,” who won the 1998 NL MVP and ultimately broke Maris’ mark when he finished that season with 66 home runs, has long been rumored to have abused anabolic steroids during his playing career. The native of the Dominican Republic is simply the latest name in a growing list of Major League Baseball superstars to be publicly exposed as a charlatan. In July of 2002, Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly confronted Sosa about his alleged steroid abuse at his Wrigley Field locker and he asked the onetime “Windy City” icon to take a drug test to prove that his ... (link)