LA Angels Tuesday News Crash: Famers

Hall of Fame is not really a really true Hall of Fame in my humble opinion as it has allowed to many former players who should not be a member to be voted in by the writers. Example of this would be Big Papi Ortiz. Papi was a popular player with the hometown Red Sox, but getting voted into the MLBHOF even after admitting using steroids to bolster his numbers. Ivan Rodriguez and Mike Piazza ditto along with others.

Manfraud changed the game of MLB by his admittingly short stance on cheating when he gave players a pass that were involved. Again, he came up short again when he found out that many more teams other than the Astros, Red Sox and Yankees were doing the same thing.

This year Carlos Beltran is coming up for vote. He certainly put up the numbers that would qualify him for entrance into the MLBHOF, but he was directly involved in the Astros cheating scandal by participating in the thrash can banging and while batting using his ears to tell him of the incoming pitch. He lost his new job position managing the Mets as a result of his involvement. Should the degree of cheating in professional baseball be weighed for the degree of guilt or is it really just the act alone.

The appearance of accepting tie ins with professional gaming has been accepted by major league sports with open arms, has it not. When committing Billions of dollars to buying a team the Billionaires want the most return that they can receive these owners have made a deal with the devil it would seem. More the one player in MLB, NFL, and the NBA have been caught in scandalous gambling schemes that can put some cloud over the legitimacy of those sports involved.

By the handle of GrandpaBaseball you can easily come to the conclusion that I’m on the downside of sixty and you would be correcto, I also with my health have one foot out of the end zone or I’m running for Homeplate, but the point being that I’m pretty much old fashion in how I look at things I guess because cheating is cheating no matter how i look at it. Cheaters should not be rewarded because they cheated no matter the degree.

The MLBHOF weakens itself by allowing non deserving players admission.