The Media Is An Interesting Demon

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2875680

Last winter ESPN surveyed Hall of Fame voters and found that only 20.4 percent would have voted for Sammy Sosa if he'd been eligible.

And now...the experts agree, after his 12th HR this season (and 600th of his career), Sammy Sosa is Hall of Fame material. What!?

I love the media. It enlightens us. Provides us with information. But sometimes...(like always)...it slants and it skews and gives us nothing of value. You look at what they give us these days, and its a bunch of watered down crap, without any real sense of what's right with the world these days.

Seriously. When did all this support for Sammy Sosa come about? Just because he hit 600HRs instead of 588? Sammy Sosa? A Hall of Famer? Please. This is a guy with a swing for the fences mentality, that came back this season only to be in the top ten in strikeouts in the major leagues with an on-base percentage under .300. This is a guy who is, and always has been, a liability on the field. He's been called a bad teammate. And he's a guy undeniably linked to Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire and their Home Run chases. But he's not them? He never did steroids?

The only reason Mark McGwire didn't make the Hall of Fame last year was because everyone was embroiled with the steroids scandal. This is a guy who actually had the home run record for a few seasons. This is a guy who was a fan favorite everywhere he went. Yet, when he was unwilling to divulge his innocence to Congress, he effectively said to the world, "I'm guilty"?

We see the steroids issue every time Barry Bonds inches closer to Hank Aaron's all-time record. Did he do it? Sure, he had to have. He hates us (by us, I'm suggesting the media). He's big. He hits home runs. He was associated to BALCO. Definitely 'roided up. But, he was a five tool player in his days in Pittsburg, a multiple MVP, and potentially the ALL-TIME HOME RUN KING. He also took his team to the World Series. Yet, the writers are still unsure about whether he's Hall-worthy.

How does Sammy get his support, if he's not even half as good?

With Sammy, these writers excuse his association to the steroids home run era by suggesting that he was never implicated, not guilty. They praise his charisma or his charm. They even used the fact that he's a KNOWN cheater for corking his bat as a excuse for him not doing steroids. Please...spare me. Someone willing to cork his bat, isn't willing to push his physical limits a bit farther with steroids? That's awful logic.

Sammy Sosa has nothing but home runs for him. He never made his teams great for a plethora of reasons. He's not a first ballot HoFer.

If this man gets into Cooperstown, McGwire better be there with him.