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Crash Course
09-15-2006, 12:40 PM
He played in the major leagues from 1986 to 2001.
rc3000
09-15-2006, 12:44 PM
Yes he is memorable
mainsr
09-15-2006, 01:02 PM
Memorable in the same way that Hal Chase, Eddie Cicotte, and Swede Risberg are memorable. I don't want to see his smug, self-satisfied fat face for the rest of my life. Including the Gallery. Thumbs down.

Let the fun begin! (You wanted to stir things up, huh, Crash?)
nyy26wc
09-15-2006, 01:44 PM
Super qualified.
Golden Bear
09-15-2006, 01:45 PM
Endless discussions of how sharply to demerit a player for PED use is about the most tedious thing on the Internet.

I voted yes. Take away 150 HR, and he's still a very good player.

I don't know what to do about the PEDs; I just know I don't want to talk about it. (That'll probably end up being MLB's de facto solution anyway.)
captain_napalm
09-15-2006, 02:53 PM
He came a long way from 3b & "Son of Kong."

He's in.
RascalJones
09-15-2006, 03:08 PM
Even if his career had ended at the point he went to St Louis, and missed those final monster years, I'd still vote yes.
KCBOOMER
09-15-2006, 04:15 PM
Ignoring the PED's thing McGwire is amply qualified in quantity, quality, and memorability. I am going to vote yes, but if I was a BBWAA member I would be sweating bullets over my upcoming HoF ballot that has McGwire's name on it.
nyy26wc
09-15-2006, 05:56 PM
Ignoring the PED's thing McGwire is amply qualified in quantity, quality, and memorability. I am going to vote yes, but if I was a BBWAA member I would be sweating bullets over my upcoming HoF ballot that has McGwire's name on it.

Looking at it from that point of view, if I was a member of the BWAA, I would hope he doesn't get in. Keping him out makes him write a bunch of columns about it per year story. Putting him makes him a 1 year story and then he's old news.
mainsr
09-16-2006, 06:38 AM
Looking at it from that point of view, if I was a member of the BWAA, I would hope he doesn't get in. Keping him out makes him write a bunch of columns about it per year story. Putting him makes him a 1 year story and then he's old news.

Rob Neyer did a column at the time of this year's HOF induction in which he asked a couple dozen BBWAA memebers whether they'd vote for him. It was about 75-25 no, as I recall.
llewdor
09-19-2006, 02:06 PM
Undoubtedly. BWAA writers who don't vote for him should have their credentials revoked.
mainsr
09-20-2006, 10:35 AM
I'm with the 75% who'd vote no.
Deep Blue
09-20-2006, 11:28 AM
I don't know what to do about the PEDs; I just know I don't want to talk about it. (That'll probably end up being MLB's de facto solution anyway.)

hasn't that been their position for the last couple of decades ?

Anyway, I voted yes. Had to hold my nose when I did it though.
LisaG
10-03-2006, 10:30 PM
well he is memorable all right

as a roid freak

i wouldn't be real too surprised if he was roiding in college too

he couldn't run, was a below average glove

i suppose i have to vote him in because we don't hafta disqualify him for doing illegal drugs but man how i hate to have to say yes

i hope he never makes the hall of fame