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Originally Posted by jaxmagicman
If he never test positive, than he never broke a rule. You can say, "But you can just tell" all you want, it is all circumstanstial until he gets caught.
And even if he did test positive, the punishment isn't banned from the hall of fame, it is suspension. You can't arbitrary make punishments based on individuals that you don't like. It isn't right.
If everyone who broke a baseball rule was banned from the hall there would be an empty hall. Lets just name a few off the top of my head. Hmm, George Brett, Nolan Ryan, Babe Ruth, and so on.
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Banned from the hall or not is not my concern. If he had been caught it would have been (by rules now at least) a 50 game suspension... and he's probably smart enough that he would have gone to a different drug that couldn't be tested for, or stopped altogether. So no, you can't ban him from the hall just for steroid use. Beyond that, by all evidence available, he was a hall of fame player before he started taking... so again, no ban from the hall from me.
But saying that he didn't break a baseball rule is not accurate. Steroids, or any performance enhancing drug, has been banned by baseball rules for quite some time. Since evidence exists that he did knowingly take performance enhancing drugs... then he did break a baseball rule. So give him his suspension, vote him into the hall.
There were 2 or 3 players involved in the HGH thing this winter that were given suspensions (the suspensions were traded off early in the season so they weren't served) for only evidence that they used, no failure of any drug test.