This steroids and baseball soap opera has been going on for 20 years now. Probably longer. But since the media has become omnipresent, the stance has been taken that any player who has participated in the game between the years of 1990 up to the present be held accountable for possibly being a no-good, dirty-rotten cheater. It's kind of unfair, but baseball I suppose brought it onto itself. I for one, have been on the fence about performance enhancing drug use in baseball. I even wrote and drew an entire comic strip serial on the subject searching for an answer, and still I waiver. I'm not condoning PED use, but I'm also not throwing an entire sect of professional athlete into the fire because of something that was basically part of the culture... and allowed to continue by the greedy governing bodies of the sport. But now a certain moment of truth is upon us. The steroid monsters are knocking on the doors to the Hall of Fame... and they want in. As a true baseball fan, I will sit on pins and needles anxiously awaiting to see how this turns out. Anyway...
I enjoyed this piece on the subject by Ian O'Conner, so I thought I'd share it here on In A Nutshell.
http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/8688524/roger-clemens-barry-bonds-mike-piazza-belong-hall-fame
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