Baseball

The early players were sheltered and never had to compete against the best possible players because of the segregated leagues. Those old time hitters faced watered down pitching and the pitchers had hundreds of artificially easy at bats because better hitters were playing in the Negro League

From the day Amphetamines were invented until a few years ago everyone was on speed. The last game of a road trip or an early start after an extra inning night game sure don't hurt ya nearly as bad when the trainer hands out greenies.

All the folks on the keep 'em out train always point to the home run hitters as proof that 'roids ruined the game but when the MLB did that "Anonymous" survey urinalyses most of the positive results were from pitchers.

Punishing the players who did PEDs AFTER the MLB put a rule in place to outlaw their use makes more sense - but that puts an undue burden on some athletes who are perceived as PED users as opposed to those who used and never got looked at the same way.

Either blow up the whole fake ass process or put all the players who dominated their era in the hall.

It's a museum of baseball without the man with the most homeruns, or the man with the most Cy Youngs or the man with the most base hits. (Pete is a scummy human BTW, but if Bart Giamatta hadn't died in office he'd already be in IMHO)

It's a damn joke.