2007 Hall of Fame vote: Would you vote for McGwire?

Yes. He broke a record that stood for 37 years.

 

Largest increase of forearm size over a 10-year period?

 

If said writers do the "right thing," zeke, I hope they're along for the ride when Dad has to explain to his 9-year-old why they drove 10 hours to Cooperstown and then went to a Hall of Fame where they didn't have all the best players.

 

You mean they don't have to do that now?

 

Without steroids, McGwire isn't one of the best players.

 

Because he cheated. And that's wrong.

What's so hard about that?

No harder than my Dad having to tell me why Pete Rose wasn't ever going to get in.

The reason I think the writers let him in -- they don't want to admit they were wrong, and that they fawned over frauds. But I hope I'm wrong.

 

There's no way the Veterans Committee puts him in. All of the current Hall of Famers won't vote him in, evidence or not, because they all believe he cheated. There's no way the Bob Fellers of the world want McGwire alongside.

 

Has Casty ever said what his thoughts are?

 

To say that he "cheated" implies that he broke the rules. Were steroids banned by MLB in 1998?
They didn't test for them at the time, did they?
And because MLB didn't test for steroids, there's no concrete proof he used them. In all probability he did use them, but there's no proof.

 

There's no "proof" that Pete Rose bet on baseball, either.

Sometimes you have to accept the fact that life isn't an episode of Matlock.

 

Didn't he sign a statement acknowledging he bet on baseball? If not, I'll shut up.

 

Yeah, he did, I think. And then recanted. And then recanted the recantation.

My point is, some people would need a picture of McGwire or Bonds with a needle in their arm, and then they'd spend days trying to figure out if it was photoshopped.

McGwire used steroids. He all but admitted so on national television. What more do people want?