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04-30-2007, 11:40 AM #21
Re: Barry Bonds - It's Not My Fault, It's Always Someone Else's
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Mark McGwire may have been for all intents and purposes a "one dimesional player" however my question is this; at what point do you achieve HOF status for being the best of the best at what you do. McGwire forever clouded his past achievements and future HOF status that day in front of congress. If he would have never appeared before congress and that debacle would not have occured nor any additional speculation regarding steroids; would that have changed the HOF voters minds? I am not entirely sure as speculation would still abound that Big Mac used PED's. The facts are this, he was the most prolific home run hitter in history in terms of homers per at bat as the numbers here do not lie. Injuries took their toll on Big Mac and many may argue this was from his own doing if he did take illegal substances. If he would not have missed the many games that he did and would have stayed healthy at the end of his career he might have added another 100 home runs.
Maybe this is not comparing apples to apples but if a closer such as Rollie Fingers or Bruce Sutter gets into the HOF being one dimensional in what they did, why can McGwire or another specialist not be inducted in the HOF. All Big Mac did was hit homers but he did it more often than anyone in baseball history so that needs to be taken into account.
Whether or not that ultimately is enough to outweigh all the questions and controversy surrounding his career is something that the voters and history will ultimately have to judge.Brett Herman
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Always looking for Cal Ripken Jr. Brooks Robinson, Boog Powell and Orioles game used bats and jersey's.