re: Are there any actual baseball fans that care about the steroid use?

I don’t think anyone knows at this point. The only qualification for admission to the hall seems to be how much BBWAA arse did you kiss.

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One here. None deserve to be in the HOF. NONE.

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Most baseball fans don't give a shite. Self-righteous journalists are the ones that care because they think it makes them relevant, like they're protecting the integrity of the game or some such nonsense.

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This guy nails it.

If baseball fans knew the names of all the guys in the '90s and early '00s who were on steroids, they would be stunned.
MLB needs to come to grips with that. Before the steroids era, there was the cocaine era in the '70s and early '80s. Before that, the "greenies" amphetamines era.
In recent seasons, players are using steroids gummies and patches that clear their systems quickly.

Plus, how stupid is this? When MLB drug checkers planned a surprise visit, they would call the team's clubhouse manager and tell him to hold a parking space for them.
The clubhouse manager would tell the players, "Hey, surprise drug tests tomorrow."

Only baseball beats itself up over steroids. The NFL doesn't care. Football fans certainly don't care.
When an NFL player is suspended for performance enhancing substances, the fans all want to know when the guy will be back in the lineup.
When an MLB player tests positive, there's a segment of fans and media who want the "druggie" banned for life.

Not all the media are self-righteous and closed-minded about this. Didn't 66% of them vote FOR Bonds and Clemens?
The problem is the other 34% that wields their vote like a self-moralizing weapon.

But they already blew their right to complain by not investigating further and speaking up in the '90s and early '00s. So the media is complicit. They're all complicit -- Bud Selig, Tony LaRussa (both in the Hall) and everyone who suspected widespread steroids use in baseball, yet did nothing about it.

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Are there any actual baseball fans that care about the steroid use?

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frick Barry Bonds, Chipper Jones didn't use them and he couldn't beat the Braves without them is probably why he went to them

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He was already a 3X MVP and had 445 HR's before he started using.

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You don't know jack shite as usual

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don’t personally know any.

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Stop hanging around meatheads at the gym.

Sorry,I'm not into chemically induced freaks cheating the sport

On an LSU-related note . . .

You do realize, don't you, that there are fans (especially in other college baseball towns) who think the Bertman-era gorilla ball teams were all on steroids?

They point to the home run numbers and the bodies.

The other LSU point is that if the baseball writers are going to interpret "cheating" as grounds for eternal banishment, what will they do when the day comes to judge the Houston Astros, particularly Jose Altuve and our boy Alex Bregman?

(We'll get a hint of that next year when Carlos Beltran comes onto the ballot).

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The HOF provided them with an outline of what qualifies a player for the hall and granted them authority make decisions based on that. The BBWAA has abused that authority and used the morality clause for their own self righteousness.

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So the Hall of Fame appointed BBWAA as the gatekeepers of the Hall of Fame, as I said.

If the Hall of Fame has an issue with how BBWAA is exercising their authority, then the Hall of Fame can strip BBWAA of that authority.

Yes and no.

I don’t t like the fact that they cheated, but I I derstnd why some did.

If I was a good clean MLB player and saw so many others using PEDs then realized I was going to lose my job and millions of dollars to someone not as good as me but had inflated numbers due to PEDs, I’d be really tempted to start using in order to keep my job.