"Biggio tops vote but no one elected to Hall"

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Review by A.J. Scott in SRM 334 (section 1)
My current event is discussing the reason why none of the Major League Baseball players were voted in the Hall of Fame this year. Some of these players who we discussed have been on steroids and have cheated the system for the majority of their careers. One of the most highly debated elections for the Baseball hall of fame ended in January without a single player being inducted. Barry Bonds, Rodger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa are players that are guilty of these actions. 

I personally think it was wrong for them to have used illegal drugs for so long. All these players are icons in baseball, for older fans and the younger ones whom may look up to these players. It looks bad on their part because it seems like their whole career, they have just been cheaters and have been lying to their fan base and to their teammates. Do I think it’s fair that not even a single one of these great players got voted in? No I do not; regardless of them using steroids this so call performance enhancer, I look at the big picture. These players have changed baseball in a tremendous way. Personally, I am not a baseball fan in no way shape or form, but when I do hear about the major leagues, the names that I am familiar with are the players that were supposed to but didn’t get voted in the Hall of Fame. Sammy Sosa is a great baseball player with or without the drug enhancer. Even if he was to not have taken them I still think he would’ve became all the above.

This was an interesting topic for me to talk about because Baseball is not really something I follow but it is always good to learn about different sports and the problems that all athletes face which is the use of steroids. This event affected not only the Hall of Fame, but also marketing, fans, and the entire sport. It shows the impact that one event can have on everything. Athletes need to stop lying about taking drug enhancers; this has become a major issue in society today and has had a major impact on the world of sports.
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Review by Anthony Rose in SRM 334 (section 1)

My current event is discussing the problem with the MLB Hall of Fame ballot. The problem is the fact that no one was voted into the hall of fame this year, and one of the main reasons is because of performance enhancing drugs. A lot of the candidates were accused of using performance enhancing drugs such as Barry Bonds who is the all time leader in home runs, Roger Clemens a pitcher who has 354 wins, Sammy Sosa who is the only baseball player to hit over 60 homers with three different teams. I think that the voters are trying to make a statement for the future saying basically if you are going to cheat your way into the record books then you are going to have to wait longer to get inducted into the hall of fame. Which in them doing that is fair but what isn’t fair is the fact that there are some other great players that didn’t get in this year that played the game the right way and are very deserving of the Hall of Fame. Me personally I have to agree with the steps that they are taking to put a stop to performing enhancing drugs because its just destroying the game of baseball. The fact that there will be no National Baseball hall of fame there will not be the same attendance for the Cooperstown season because that the biggest event during that weekend. In that case there will not be the same amount of funding that they are usually seeing because the big time baseball fans will not be attending.