Only Hypocrisy, Not Proof, Keeps Mark McGwire Out of the Hall of Fame.

Did Mark McGwire cheat? Did he use steroids to build his massive home run hitting frame? Is he little more than a liar when it comes to admitting what we all know is the truth?

The collective answer is obvious to anyone taking a step back from the emotional brink.

We don’t know.

And in those three words lie another answer. To the question of whether or not McGwire, the only eligible baseball player in history with over 500 home runs that is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame, should be finally given his place in Cooperstown this year.

It’s a simple answer with not a shred of ambiguity about it, and not one slice of proof to mount a cogent argument.

Yes.

Mark McGwire must be elected to and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

For if he is not, then this hallowed gathering of greats should be immediately torn down and replaced with a much more fitting edifice.

A proper to monument lies, innuendo, favoritism, back door politics, back handed compliments, racism, bigotry, pay offs, rip offs, buffoonery and callous indifference.

In other words, exactly what we have today.

What I think about McGwire being elected into the Hall of Fame is unimportant. What you as fans of any type might think is also unimportant. And more to the point, what voters in this year’s election think about McGwire being allowed to take his rightful place is perhaps the least critical and vital part to this debate.

All of these varying opinions mean exactly the same.

Nothing.

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