Apparently I talk about Steroids all the time

I saw those pillars of America's Integrity, The Baseball Writers of America, voted on a resolution about steroids and the hall of fame (maybe such a resolution is necessary sometime...I doubt it...but not yet, and not when we have NEVER had an appropriate conversation about steroids) the other day and it was voted down like 45-35 (I don't know what percentage was needed to pass the resolution 50% or 75%?) which means to me one day soon there will be a resolution about steroids and the hall of fame (These are the same guys who'll give 6% of the vote to a player in his first year of eligibility and 75% in his 15th...because, you know, he's gotten a lot better in the 20 years he's been retired!). I am neither for or against a resolution, but I think it will be wrongheaded when it comes.

So, assuming there is a resolution, let me ask you this: Would you vote for any Manager, GM, Owner, Commissioner (I had to add that for posterity, I hope you didn't spit out your coffee) or any other baseball official from the last 20 years? (20 years takes you back to 1989 when A-roid was taking steroids in High school...so you could probably add another 10 years to the question)

If you are going to punish the player for seeking success, money and fame and glory, when actively competing against other players who you know are cheating, How can you not punish the BILLIONAIRES who pocketed Billions of $ on the backs and shortened shelf lives (shortened lives) of increasingly poor (remember, these ball clubs have camps and institutes in all of these Caribbean baseball hotbeds...where they identify "talent" at 10,12, 14 years old...if A-roid is getting his hands on drugs in an American High school, baseball IS these kids high school, that's it.) players.

Is Tony Larussa, who won a world series with Jose Canseco and 2 with McGuire... a hall of famer?
What about Joe Torre? Who managed all those roiders in NY (Giambi, Sheffield, Clemens and I'm missing a bunch) and then Manny in LA?

If Dusty wins the world series with the Reds, He a hall of famer, and he managed Sammy and Bonds.

And what about Dr. James Andrews or Dr. Frank Jobe, who have revolutionized surgeries that have extended and enhanced players careers, but have performed those surgeries on players they KNEW where on steroids, whose steroid use caused the injury.?.

I read an article the other day about the myth of the over played baseball player. ("Here, via Matt Yglesias, is a chart of worker compensation as a share of national GDP. (I realize this isn't the cleanest comparison, but it at least provides a rough index of what American business considers to be fair.) The figure hovers between 56 and 59 percent. Baseball players' share of league wide revenue is only 52 percent, the lowest of any major team sport") this steroid hysteria, in the amount of culpability that isn't passed around, seems to me another example of the American Star system where we build idols only to disparage them. It also seems like it is being fed at the hands of a bunch of men (largely) who love something they are no good at (or at least could not excel at) and so want to play a role (and control) how it is run and perceived.