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Groundhog Day for Hall of Fame Hypocrisy

Matthew Callan Nov 29 2012, 10:00a

Mike Piazza might be kept out of the Hall of Fame because some baseball writers suspect he used PEDs--the same writers who had plenty of chances to denounce the Steroid Era when it happened.

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A Letter To WFAN: Howie Rose, The Steroid Era, And Context

James Kannengieser Aug 24 2012, 10:00a

Mets radio announcer Howie Rose regularly gripes about records tarnished by the Steroid Era. Here is a letter to WFAN explaining why he should stop doing that.

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The One-Way Street of Steroid Confessions

Matthew Callan Dec 20 2011, 2:03p

We should keep all Steroid Era players out of the Hall of Fame, say reporters who could have exposed "cheating"

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"the steroid era is the most discredited period in the history of American professional sports" - says espn writer with zero sense of historical perspective

posted by kendynamo, Apr 14, 2011

Link go.com

i'm sure there are many intelligent, well reasoning baseball fans that find steroids a bigger deal than me, but does anyone else actually believe this? "There is not another American sport where so many of the elite have been disgraced. Nothing comes close to this. Not Pete Rose, not the Black Sox, not baseball's drug trials of the 1980s, not the college basketball scandals of the 1950s." Throwing a world series is one thing, but giving round about answers in front of a grand jury that eventually do get answered directly is a sign of the MLB apocolypse. um, what? more on the verdict from Criag Calcaterra

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On Andy Pettitte's Hall Pass

Matthew Callan Feb 7 2011, 12:00p

Andy Pettitte's HOF merits are being debated soberly. Which is fine, except you can't say the same for any other PED user.

Calls For Sandy Alderson To Apologize For Steroids Era Are Laughable

James Kannengieser Oct 28 2010, 11:30a

Sandy Alderson need not apologize for the steroids era.

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Posnanski On Willie Mays And Cheating In Baseball

posted by James Kannengieser, Mar 01, 2010

Link joeposnanski.com

I suspect many at AA read Joe Posnanski on a regular basis and may have already seen this. Regardless, this piece is terrific, even by Poz standards.

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This is Why Joe Pos is a National Treasure

posted by dcrockett17, Jan 20, 2010

Link joeposnanski.com

Like most readers here, I have steroid fatigue. But, for me this is less about steroids and more about someone--anyone--with the stones to discuss an issue like a grownup when other folks are content to yell and scream while sticking their fingers in their ears. The money quote: And how much of what we saw was steroid induced? Was it 90%? Was it 40% How much? We don’t know. And while some people seem endlessly interested in standing on soap boxes and shouting down at the cheaters who have been caught or have come forward for whatever reason, it seems like we don’t want to know. Yes, the era may be defined by steroids, but it’s like people don’t want to hear that steroids were not the only reason that people hit a bunch more home runs. There are a lot of reasons people hit home runs.

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