The Baseball Writers’ Association of America selected nobody to the Hall Of Fame yesterday. Not even the nice man who wipes your seat clean when you arrive at the ball park and expects nothing in return.
Tom Verducci, a Sports Illustrated writer, explained to CNN’s Erin Burnett yesterday, in an interview that can be seen here, why he voted against 7-time All-Star Barry Bonds and 7-time Cy Young winner Roger Clemens for entry into the Baseball Hall Of Fame.
During the interview, he indicated that it did not matter if a player did steroids even if the player only used them during the first year of his career – that player should never be eligible.
That’s kind of like saying that if someone tries drugs once when they’re young, they should never be allowed to be President of the United States and get their own Presidential library, which would ruin many a school field trip to current and future libraries of Presidents Clinton, W. Bush, and Obama.
Verducci also acknowledged that there’s no way of knowing if other cheaters got in the Hall.
3 Reasons The Hall May Be Full Of Cheaters
1. Baseball still doesn’t use instant replays. Hey, you know those controversial plays when an umpire makes a bad call in a player’s favor, and the player knows it, and says nothing? Well, isn’t the right thing to do to admit you dropped the ball or got tagged? Of course not! You’ll get beat up by teammates and have fans’ beer cans and beer can cozies thrown down on you. Sure, the opposing player’s manager may storm out of the dugout, raising his blood pressure, causing potential health damage, but this kind of “cheating” is okay because people like it so much that they will never call it cheating.
2. The Baseball Writers Of America may not have been doing enough investigative journalism into steroid use in the 1980s to discover other possible users, because they were too busy investing in Donruss Gregg Jefferies’ rookie baseball cards. “If this kid’s as big as they say he’ll be, and everybody destroys the countless cards printed, and nobody invents an electronic device that let’s us look up a players stats instantly, we’ll be rich in 2013!” they may have thought.
3. Can you really trust a humanoid with a big head? How did he get such a big head if not through performance-enhancing drugs? (We’re referring to the Mascot Hall of Fame and its member, Mr. Met.)
