True, it would be unfortunate for guys like Jeter and Griffey to have their names next to Bonds and Clemens, but they’ll still be in Cooperstown, so what’s the big deal? These guys all know each other and have played with or against each other.

Maybe, I just want baseball to begin again. Doc, Lee, Roy, and Cole. Holy crap.

And certainly they do. However, in large bodies of individuals there are often mavericks or alpha dogs or strange attractors whatever you want to call them that have the propensity for initiating changes in direction, changes in attitude. I think Neyer’s right: someone (or something) will light a new fire under this crowd eventually, and it will scurry otherwards.

My theory is that steroid guys will not get into the HOF not because of internal pressure from the folks who run Cooperstown, but because a majority of the writers will unwittingly back themselves into a corner. McGwire isn’t getting in, but when these writers hide behind their NO votes until 2013, my guess is, they’ll have become accustomed to the safety of voting no and won’t summon the courage to vote YES, even to Barry Bonds (who should be in the Willie Mays HOF). In other words, their malaise will become permanent. Think of it like a guy who works out every day when he’s in his mid 20′s. By 32 he gets a good paying job and a good looking wife. Next comes a baby. Pretty soon, our guy no longer has the energy to work out every day. In fact, he probably ceases to work out at all by 34 or 35.

So it is with the HOF voters. When Big Mac first appeared on the ballot last year, they never INTENDED to keep out ALL of the steroid guys. But it’s just too easy and safe to vote NO. After voting NO from 2009-2012, they’re all of a sudden going to vote YES to Bonds, Clemens, or Sosa?

Not likely.

You could set that as a headline and set it to run every morning with a link to his site. No other explanation would be needed.