http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/16/mcgwire-aftermath WBUR is Boston's NPR News Station, featuring NPR news and programs such as Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Radio Boston. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/16/mcgwire-aftermath/comment-page-1#comment-7222 Art Springsteen Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:39:49 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=13919#comment-7222 Bill, I listen to your show every weekend. Thanks for the excellent, if off-beat, look at the sports world. I agree with Carl on his posting. It is either time to take the election of HOF members away from sports writers or to purge the rolls of some of the electors. To say that you're simply going to send in an empty ballot because you think everyone 'might' have cheated is patently unfair the the vast majority of players in the era. So here's a guy from a lousy paper in a lousy city who is going to keep players off the ballot because of a speculation of his own making. I was also appalled by a sportswriter out of New York who appeared on MLB-TV and said he wouldn't vote for Robbie Alomar- one of the 5 best second baseman in history- because of the spitting incident. When he was questioned more deeply, it seems like the REAL problem was that Alomar played very poorly when we was with the Mets at the end of his career (he was both injured and ill- I believe with hepatitis-B- at the time), and this guy took offense that he didn't play better for the Mets. So while Carl wasn't as eloquent as he might have been, he made some very good points. My concern is that when McGwire, Bonds, Sosa, etal, were using steroids, it was NOT illegal. In fact, McGwire was quite open about having 'nutritional supplements' in plain view in his locker. The owners knew, the commissioner knew and they chose to do nothing about it. So why punish the players for doing things that were not proscribed? Talk about hypocrisy! Bill,
I listen to your show every weekend. Thanks for the excellent, if off-beat, look at the sports world.
I agree with Carl on his posting. It is either time to take the election of HOF members away from sports writers or to purge the rolls of some of the electors. To say that you’re simply going to send in an empty ballot because you think everyone ‘might’ have cheated is patently unfair the the vast majority of players in the era. So here’s a guy from a lousy paper in a lousy city who is going to keep players off the ballot because of a speculation of his own making. I was also appalled by a sportswriter out of New York who appeared on MLB-TV and said he wouldn’t vote for Robbie Alomar- one of the 5 best second baseman in history- because of the spitting incident. When he was questioned more deeply, it seems like the REAL problem was that Alomar played very poorly when we was with the Mets at the end of his career (he was both injured and ill- I believe with hepatitis-B- at the time), and this guy took offense that he didn’t play better for the Mets. So while Carl wasn’t as eloquent as he might have been, he made some very good points.
My concern is that when McGwire, Bonds, Sosa, etal, were using steroids, it was NOT illegal. In fact, McGwire was quite open about having ‘nutritional supplements’ in plain view in his locker. The owners knew, the commissioner knew and they chose to do nothing about it. So why punish the players for doing things that were not proscribed? Talk about hypocrisy!

]]> http://www.wbur.org/2010/01/16/mcgwire-aftermath/comment-page-1#comment-7148 Carl Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:58:55 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=13919#comment-7148 #1 Why are sports writers the one's responsible for players to go into the H.O F. What do they know about the game that would put that kind of power in there hands? # I want to see these sports writer MORONS, sujected to the same scrutiy that the players have to go through. Let's see how honest the writers really are. I'll bet they are dirtier then the players. And what does the integrityh of the game mean ? The game has been dirty since the beginning of baseball history. And what about the owner's of these teams ? back in the day they were more rotten then any of the players ever where. And there all in the hall of fame. So bushit to this tool of a writer and his integrity for the game. #1 Why are sports writers the one’s responsible for players to go into the H.O F. What do they know about the game that would put that kind of power in there hands? # I want to see these sports writer MORONS, sujected to the same scrutiy that the players have to go through. Let’s see how honest the writers really are. I’ll bet they are dirtier then the players. And what does the integrityh of the game mean ? The game has been dirty since the beginning of baseball history. And what about the owner’s of these teams ? back in the day they were more rotten then any of the players ever where. And there all in the hall of fame. So bushit to this tool of a writer and his integrity for the game.

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