Okay, I'm doing one more day's worth of break before I mercifully end my superhuman lineage entries.
Major League Baseball announced today that Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr would be enshrined in its Hall of Fame. While that's kind of but not really interesting, the big story has been Mark McGwire's lack of support. While his stats match up with any other great slugger, a potent anti-steroid sentiment kept him from getting close to the votes necessary.
Hall of Fame voters, I agree that steroids are bad. But is taking steroids any worse than than the crimes perpetrated by other legends of the game? Here's a brief list, for comparison.
Ty Cobb - hated black people
Mickey Mantle - loved booze
Hank Aaron - regularly farted and then blamed it on the umpire
Stan Musial - ran a brutal, bloody cockfighting circuit from his hotel room
Willie Mays - once robbed Stan Musial of his cockfight winnings
Nolan Ryan - in close games, shot blowdarts at the opposing batters
Cy Young - cyborg
Oddibe McDowell - terrible baseball player
Roberto Clemente - appeared in a homemade porn movie with Paris Hilton
Pete Rose - bet on baseball, then bet on his impending banishment from baseball, then bet Tom Sizemore would play him in a tv movie
Sandy Koufax - member of the Hell's Angels
Babe Ruth - gave Lou Gehrig such a violent wedgie that Gehrig developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Let McGwire in, I say; maybe he'd class up the joint.
Posted by Cody at January 10, 2007 8:59 PM