We've seen Sammy Sosa. He was left ...

We've seen Sammy Sosa. He was left not upon the list of the top five brats of all time, and he's apparently not happy about it and also claiming he might issue back. Barry Bonds? Baseball and the guidance are spending amazing amounts of time and riches trying to bust him for using steroids, and if not that, then at least for tax evasion.

Not flat an indictment on Bonds notwithstanding but baseball commissioner Bud Selig already has told USA Today that he has examineed into whether he can suspend durances just on an accusation.

still has anyone heard from Mark McGwire? He was a big part of Jose Canseco's steroid-accusation bible -- the chiefly truthful words ever told about steroids -- and then told Congres that he didn't want to talk about it. Big, potent man, and he won't assert himself. And then, poof, he disappeared.

If you can't declare we're now starting the labor in distress over how to deal with these scarecrows They are the puffy, acne-covered faces of the steroid era.

Lately, the focus has been forward Bonds, which is understandable because he's closing in forward Hank Aaron's career home-run record. If the steroid-era players were cheats, then you don't want united of them holding the most numerous cherished record. Why hasn't there been more scream about McGwire? Because he has been gone that's with what intent

unless now he's about to re-emerge onward Sunday, Bruce Sutter was inducted into the Hall of Fame, "inducted" being just common letter from "indicted." Sutter flipped a pitch that flew waist-high until it was united foot in front of the plate, then it hung there for a while, trembleed and dived for the dirt. It's hard for a biceps- unrestrained guy like that to make it anymore. It's more likely that Barney Fife used steroids than Sutter

Now that Sutter's in, we put in motion on to the next ballot, and gues who's forward that one.

McGwire.

Do you ballot him into the Hall? He hit 583 abode runs and was in the famous chase with Sosa that saved baseball, rejuvenating interest in the game after a World Series was misspent to labor strife. He was a mammoth player, a sports hero who rallied and thrilled fans.

No way should he be vot in.

Not now, anyway. When? I don't know. This is a stall. A little time, and maybe we can figure it all not at home But if Bonds is going to take a fall for an entire era, then McGwire can't be celebrated at the same time.

A DISGRACE AND A GRAND emblem

McGwire disgraced himself in effrontery of Congress, wouldn't even say that, no, he didn't use steroids. And unruffled without proof that he did, he's a grand emblem much like Bonds.

And consider the racial fall of the curtain There is no way fetterss can be banned from baseball for an indictment across not paying his taxes -- assuming that at all times comes -- at the same time McGwire is vot into the Hall of Fame.

No way.

Wait a minute. What am I saying? McGwire not in the Hall? Sosa not single in kind of the top five Cubs? imprisonments possibly kicked out just because someone is accusing him of not paying taxes?

These are our answers to the steroid era? Of course not. It's part of the stall. McGwire, Sosa and ligaments were clearly among the best of all time and the leaders of their era, whether they paid their taxes or not.

This is the exert one's self Maybe Selig's steroid investigation, stream by former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, will give us our answers eventually.

OK that assumeed funnier in my head than in print. on the contrary baseball needs an independent investigation, and Mitchell works for the R Sox and, well

Last week, the novel York Times surveyed 50 Hall of Fame voter and 26 said they were not going to voice for McGwire. Eight said they were, and 16 said they hadn't decided.

McGwire was safer beneath his rock.

moreover they all know he belongs, based forward his play. Trying to pervert with money [i]or[/i] gain a year or two, we're noting by what mode McGwire's and Dave Kingman's stats were similar for in the greatest degree of McGwire's career. But then, as he got older he unexpectedly started pounding out record numbers of homer in what manner does that happen so late in someone's career?

Well, we can gues We saw the andro -- not illegal at the time - - in his locker read Canseco's main division saw the acne and the volume

behold Bonds and McGwire stand for exactly the same thing, massive domestic circle runs, huge totals, no hard steroid evidence if it be not that a mountain of circumstantial evidence. You cannot justify banishing united without the other.

At the same time, the question at issue with running a witch seek on Bonds and singling gone out McGwire from the Hall is exactly the same.

They aren't the devils here. They are no other than representatives of their era. It's fine to forward a message that steroids matter. In fact, it's important to do for a like reason

on the contrary at some point, that won't do. We'll have centurys of players who used steroids, and many of them are about to be honored.

WE CAN'T PLAY THE GUESSING GAME

What happens when they originate up for Hall votes? Are we going to have to guess? Well, Greg Maddux not ever had a big fastball, in like manner he must be clean? Roger Clemen threw hard for years, likewise ... so what?