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Originally Posted by Seven

Jay,

I think I worded it poorly on my part, I'm going to leave my original post. What I was trying to say was that I do think Anson should be in the Hall of Fame. He statistically is a Hall of Famer. He was a pioneer of the game. Statistically speaking, Clemens, Bonds, Rodriguez, etc. All belong as well.

I can't for the life of me understand someone attempting to take the moral high ground argument when it comes to the PED users, but also simultaneously be okay with players like Anson being in the Hall of Fame.

Hope this clarifies things.

James

James, I understood what you were saying in your first post. There are people who think players like Anson should be removed from the Hall of Fame as well as Commissioner Landis and others who's morals don't fit the present even though they may not have been that far from the norm in their own time.

I don't see wanting to keep people out of the Hall now for PEDs just because people like Anson are already in as being hypocritical because they're from different eras and what was considered acceptable in Anson's time is a lot different from now. I see more of a problem with Selig being in (as you said) because he was part of the same era as Bonds, McGwire, etc and clearly had something to do with PED usage being allowed to continue for as long as it did so if the players are to be punished with exclusion then he should be as well.