Sherrington: Report about Sosa is proof that vouching for athletes is risky

This has been a Desilucid production?

Palmeiro’s case raised a question for me, a HOF voter like Tim Cowlishaw, and it’s this:

Outside fairly significant confirmation like what we got for Sosa and Bonds and McGwire, how do I throw out some superstar athletes based on how they looked and wave others through the doors of immortals?

The guys who crushed baseball’s biggest records, they were fairly easy to spot. But what about the rest? Many, many others got to the big leagues already pumped up. They started in high school. Or they did just enough to help them make it, a conscious choice to try to remain in their chosen profession, however mistaken they may have been.

Bottom line: If every pro athlete who used steroids or HGH or something similar were to suddenly turn a brilliant shade of blue, every playing field in America would look like a Texas Hill Country pasture come spring.

Fans are all over the map on the issue. Some say hang ‘em all. Most couldn’t care less.

As for me, I’ll probably just continue a personal trend, and that’s to abstain. At least until the topic of steroids finally passes through the nation’s system or the athletes’, whichever comes first.