Florida Marlins’ Wes Helms: No place in Hall of Fame for drug users

And this means you…(THERE’S TOO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM!)

Wes Helms, a steady but unspectacular performer during 11 major-league seasons, doesn’t envision himself landing in baseball’s Hall of Fame. But neither does he want to see those who used performance-enhancing drugs get in, either.

‘The Hall of Fame is baseball, and if you let guys like that in the Hall of Fame, it makes our kids think that `if they did it, I should.’ ‘’ he said.

Helms said the Hall of Fame ban should apply only when there is ‘‘100 percent proof’’ that a player used steroids.

‘‘It’s sad,’’ Helms said Wednesday, one day after a newspaper report that Sammy Sosa tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003. ``It’s one of those things where you can’t judge until you know it’s true. But these guys who have come out and said they did it or have been caught and admitted it, yeah. Everybody makes mistakes. But when it comes to an award like the Hall of Fame, you’ve got to count them out.’‘