I'll start with the not so obvious. Piazza and Biggio deserved to get in. These are 2 guys that we're never accused nor failed a drug test the entire time they played. Piazza gets the shaft because he had a "Steroid body", "steroid injury" and declining stats after steroid testing started. That's crazy. Who made us judge, jury and executioner on steroids... and what is a steroid body!???! Did Melky Cabrera have a steroid body? Did he hit a lot of homeruns? When did we start saying steroids would make you go from a .250 hitter to a .350 hitter? It's a bit of a joke now don't you think? The fact we are being judgmental NOW about something we all assumed (knew) back THEN.
Now the obvious. Let's face facts here people. After the strike, baseball was a dyeing sport. Every year after the strike, baseball was losing ground to Football, Basketball and yes, even hockey. It was headed to obscurity because most people couldn't handle what they felt was a slow boring sport. Then low and behold, we have a homerun chase. Not one but 2 people chase the single season home run record and no one really questions anything. Well they asked McGuire about it. Do you all remember that? Do you remember what McGuire told us all? "only Creatine people. No worries". And we all excepted that. Without question. Lol I did too. I started taking creatine. What a joke. Tasted like chalk. Had to take it with red Gatorade just to get it down and then I couldn't drink red Gatorade for 2 years after without think of eating chalk.
McGuire, Sosa, Bonds, Clemens and countless others saved the game and given passes for a while because of it. We all looked the other way. Fans, writers, announcers, other players, coaches, owners and everyone else. All of us. And now these players, these hero's of the time are paying the price. It's just sad. What's worse is the judgment that people are throwing not only on them but on everyone in that era. Hang them all because we're not sure who used and didn't.
What's worse is most of these "voters" said that they will vote for them within the next few years.... ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?! So your telling me that a few years later, without hitting another homerun, striking out another batter, or getting another hit, these guys deserve to get in... but not this year. Does Derek Jeter get lumped in with this group? Ken Griffey JR? REALLY?
I'll leave you with this. How may home runs do you think the "guys of the past" hit after they took a greeny (amphetamines) ? Legal and perfectly fine back then but banned and considered a performance enhancing drug now. Let's take a look at this stat from this iconic player. If I told you that an unknown player, played for 12 seasons and these we're his HR totals per year 14, 28, 16, 39, 61, 33, 23, 26, 8, 13, 9, 5. Could you tell me the one year that looks suspicious? Would you wonder and question about that one year? I would... yet it seems no one ever questions if Roger Maris's HR record was legit or not. Think that theory or conclusion is disrespectful and crazy? Then why is that any crazier then what was just done to Piazza and Biggio? #justsayin
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