Friday, May 24, 2013
MLB: Don Sutton never shy about voicing his opinion
(mlb.mlb.com)
Sutton: Because that’s where the defaced money is.
Read More...The outspoken Sutton—who came up with the Dodgers in 1966 and pitched with them for 16 of his 23 seasons—has his own opinion about everything.
He said in an interview last week that he hates pitch counts.
“I say it with a laugh in my voice when I broadcast: ‘That’s 100 pitches. On the next one, he’s going to turn into a troll.’ At 101, you just disappear. Poof, you’re gone,” Sutton said.
...MLB.com: Did you cheat?
Sutton: No, I never got ...
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< 1 2In. Having said that, I wouldn't recommend any player make that admission until after induction ceremony.
So what happens when a player already in the HOF admits years later that he roided (like Terry Bradshaw did. He's in the pro football HOF, right?)? Will there be a clamor by anti-PED zealots to remove his plaque?
It's gonna happen someday. Odds are there's already some steroid users in the baseball HOF.
Bradshaw later said he hadn't used anabolic steroids. However, it's pretty commonly understood that his HoF center Mike Webster (and most of those Steelers) were juiced to the gills.
As for your hypothetical: at first, a tiny but irritating (and Repoz-linked) minority will call for them to be removed from the Hall. That will obviously not happen.
After that, said admission would serve as one of many boosts to the (I think) inevitable softening attitudes on steroid usage among Hall voters, leading to the eventual elections of those known and suspected steroids users down the road.
Historically, I don't think anyone has much cared whether Pro Football HoF-ers were PED users or not.
I know, but it would be different in baseball, as it always is for some reason. People would definitely care if an MLB HOFer admitted to juicing.
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