re: Barry Larkin says no one associated with PEDs will be elected to HOF

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And that's exactly why the HOF is such a fraud. Only excluding cheaters after a certain point because you didn't give a shite about cheating or couldn't test for it before that point makes a HOF achievement almost entirely null in my eyes.

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So if you have a vote, vote for whoever you want for whatever reasons you want.

But it isn't stupid, and calling it hypocritical (which I don't believe you did--I'm just illustrating my point that is too intelligent for anyone in this thread to understand :troll: ) assumes that there are current writers who are taking a hard line against 'roids and who have knowingly voted for known cheaters in the past while knowing that they had cheated. Which writers have done so? If you can't name any, then you can't call it hypocritical. Hank Aaron was inducted before Tom Verducci had a vote. The old-timers who were already in have virtually nothing to do with today's voters, so calling today's voters hypocritical is a misuse of the word hypocritical. Taking known cheaters out of the HOF is an entirely different and way more complicated issue for which I have no good answer.

But if there's a guy on your ballot and you know that he cheated, and you don't vote for him, that's perfectly reasonable no matter who else is in the Hall.