Like many other baseball fans, I've been struggling with how to deal with steroids and Hall of Fame. The strongest argument for admitting players who are suspected or reasonably known to have used performance-enhancing drugs is the idea that the Hall of Fame is a museum, not a shrine.
Jumping off from that idea, How about having a special hall of drug users for players who used PED's during that age? I kind of like this idea. It's the Hall of Cheaters (TM). Sponsored by Pfizer or BALCo or Lance Armstrong. I think this opens up new avenues for including somebody like Barry Bonds, who certainly belongs in the hall of something. And maybe for players only suspected of cheating, like Jeff Bagwell or Mike Piazza they could be in a corridor between the main part of the museum and the hall of cheaters. I think, to quote, Jaffar, the idea has merit. By the way, how brilliant is Gilbert Gottfried in that movie as a parrot?
I think the players would like it, And just not the ones who played clean. because it would open the hall to players who otherwise wouldn't be considered seriously, like Sammy Sosa, who was a serial cheater but a very colorful character. Don't you think people would want to see an exhibit about cheaters in baseball? You could have a video of Tony LaRussa explaining how to steal signs, along with a picture of the guy in the Phillies bullpen with the binoculars. You can put the binoculars in the case. Next to Bonds' vials of of the cream and the clear. And maybe a spectrographic analysis of the non-hat materials on Gaylord Perry's hat.
Friday, January 11, 2013
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