MLB: Hypocrisy? Journalist explodes against Bud Selig and the Hall of Fame

The 2022 Ballot Hall of Fame MLB is perhaps the most controversial we have seen so far, since it includes perhaps the greatest exponents of the Age of Steroids between their names, how are they Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens in your 10th year of eligibility, Manny Ramírez, Andy Pettitte, Gary Sheffield, with already some opportunities and perhaps the most controversial of all, Alex Rodriguez, who is in their first year of eligibility.

The truth is that as the voters have behaved in the last ballots, it is almost certain that none of them will be able to enter Cooperstown through the BBWAA. However, the journalist Bill Mushnick of The New York Post has pointed out the great “hypocrisy” and double standards of the vast majority of voters towards the representatives of the Age of Steroids compared to how they behaved with their “facilitator”: Former Commissioner Bud Selig.

Mushnick points out that under Selig’s predecessor in the commissioner’s chair, Fay Vincent, the Age of Steroids would not have proliferated as it did with Selig and that under his complete complacency and / or complicity, banned substances proliferated and now, received a total facelift from the voters to the Hall of Fame when he was inducted in 2015, which with Bonds, Sosa, Clemens and company has not happened.

Selig undoubtedly wanted to proclaim himself the knight on the white steed to save baseball from steroids. It only took Selig a dozen years to take matters into his own hands. In other words: If there is room for Selig in the Hall of Fame, why can’t those who benefited from his complicity with him enter?

Will players of the Steroid Age ever be able to enter the Cooperstown Hall of Fame?

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie on Al Bat in early 2018 and I am going into my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I am a fan of the San Francisco Giants, a number one defender of Barry Bonds and a critic of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to be taken away from the World Series for cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy soccer, football, basketball, and just about any other game that includes a ball or a ball. I am also an amateur musician, penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the shrimp capital of the world, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived in Australia for a while; i survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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MLB: Hypocrisy? Journalist explodes against Bud Selig and the Hall of Fame