[TomSportsHack]

He will make the HOF someday. It's just too hard to keep the admitted or proven one's out when there are so many that we will never know about. I think there needs to be a distinction of players from the Steroid era and unfortunately that will lump all, including innocent, into the same cesspool.

Taken in order: No, he won't. If anything, he lost voters among the writers today because now the voters with double standards can't play the "nobody knows for sure whether McGwire used steroids or not" card anymore. And it's not too hard to keep the admitted/proven ones out---you just don't vote for them; about half the BBWAA voters will not vote for a known steroid user under any circumstances and it only takes 25 percent plus one more voter to keep a player out of the Hall Of Fame in the first place. There won't be any such distinction---Bud Selig won't even admit that there was a steroid era in baseball.

I can think of a handful who have Hall-worthy careers and who I'm certain weren't using, including one in particular---think of a slugger who got hurt a lot, took a long time to recover each time and still managed to hit 630 home runs (so far). And let's be honest: there are only a handful of guys at any given time who are Hall-worthy in the first place. Cut out the ones you know or are fairly certain used and you've only cut a couple.