He's an ass. So they're all guilty by association?
Ok, two can play at that game. Gurnick is a sports writer. Sports writers are part of the media. The media is nothing more than a bunch of liberal bedwetting socialists, worthy of nothing but scorn.
There.
It appears that this Gurnick guy won’t be voting ever again.
PEDs destroyed any credibility of baseball stats. Therefore the HOF should have a huge asterisk next to it.
Barry Bonds 70 HRs in a season? You don’t need to look much farther than that to make the point.
8 writers didn’t vote for Cal Ripken when he came up (same reason).
One look at Maddux’ body and you can tell he never used ‘roids.
So Maddux is sacrificed in order to make a point?
That’s worth one lifted eyebrow and a bemused facial expression.
Maddox was kidded about looking like the Pillsbury doughboy during his career, so PEDs are highly doubtful. I remember a rare triple he hit, he was huffing and puffing coming around second base and his teammates in the dugout were dying laughing at him because he looked like he wasn’t going to make it to third.
If Sandy Koufax wasn’t unanimous, then no pitcher should be.
If anything, the PED era makes Maddux’s accomplishments more impressive. It made it tougher to pitch against guys who were roided up.
I don’t think Maddux used PED’s and he deserves to be elected to the HOF. Regarding the unanimous part, I don’t believe any player has been elected unanimously, so I don’t think its that big of deal as long as Maddox is voted into HOF. Just my two cents worth.
PED’s and player’s greed has made the Hall of Fame irrelevant.
I guess I grew up loving baseball at the wrong time. I remember when players had to have an off season job to survive and played for the love of the game.
Jack Morris played into the mid-90’s...isn’t that part of the “steroid era”?
ok so Greg Maddux will still very deservedly be in the hall.
I’m mixed....
I do love DiMaggio
One thing I like about baseball is that their Hall of fame is more prestigious than the other Sports.
One more reason why the Baseball Hall of Fame should now include television and radio broadcasters who have broadcast baseball games for 15 years or more. Broadcasters—who have actually seen the players in the field of play—are better judges of who belongs in the Hall of Fame than a large fraction of the BBWAA, in my humble opinion!
I think the guy is being a jerk, but I don’t think the players can complain about it. They could have made a stink about body morphing PEDS back then, they chose not to do so. They sacrificed the guy that never got called up but might have if it wasn’t for someone else using PEDS in the bigs. In return, they got generally higher salaries as the abusers got big contracts and drove the average salary across the board up. If it really mattered about a supposed non-user all time great like Maddux not getting 100% then they should have done something different. They should have done something different if they didn’t want this logjam with a good chance of deserving players not making it at all as everyone starts splitting their votes between suspected/known user greats and non-top tier HFers.
It’s still the only Hall of Fame that matters pretty much, and no it is far from perfect.
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