*****Official 2025 Royals Season Repository Thread*****

[Ocotillo]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

So Beltran almost got in and will surely get in next year.

Can someone explain the rationale for voting for a guy who cheated to win a World Series in comparison to Barry Bonds (arguably the greatest baseball player of all time who fell off the ballot because the same writers voting for Beltran deemed his character to be too poor to be a HOFer)?

Just a ridiculous system.

Your answer is that society views different types of cheating on separate scales. Drastically altering one's body composition through chemical means is high on or at the top of the list. There's a reason why WADA and track and field gives an automatic two-year ban for doping.

I do think the Astros went beyond just gamesmanship where they're using technology and AI to decode signs. It's much more flagrant than using a corked bat or throwing a screwball.