HALL OF FAME

Oh, how quickly one individual can fall from grace.

Not even a decade ago people were hailing Mark McGwire as one of the best things to happen to the game of baseball. His 70 homerun season of 1998 was, without a doubt, one of the most exciting things to watch in sports history.

The guy's body breakdowns quickly there after and he retires. No big deal, right? Then his former "bash brother" buddy, Jose Canseco, writes his book and before you know it McGwire is in front of a Congressional Committee looking like one of the most guilty people in the history of athletics.

It was really dissapointing to see a guy who had everything going for him just "sell us out" down the river because he couldn't admit that he did steroids. Image tainted, records tainted, his reputions tainted forever. His admission certainly wouldn't have fixed everything, so to speak, but at least it would have given his fans some of level of honesty.

Now he is on the Hall of Fame ballot for the class of 2007. Usually a guy with 500+ homeruns, a couple All-Star game apperances, a Rookie of the Year award and a few Gold Gloves to name a few gets into the Hall of Fame without a problem.

McGwire doesn't deserve the honor and he will be the first of many people (Canseco, Rafael Palmario, maybe Barry Bonds) who's character will finally come into the voting process. Cheaters, and that's what McGwire is, don't belong in the Hall of Fame.