Count former FOX MLB announcer Joe Buck among those who would like to see Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, among others, in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Buck was a guest with Adam Schein on his SiriusXM podcast Rise and Schein, and Joe was asked where he stood on known steroid users and whether they should be celebrated among baseball’s other legends in Cooperstown.
Buck said you can’t ignore the steroid era of baseball.
“Did it exist? Absolutely,” Buck said. “Are we all, I think, mature enough to understand that that was going on in the game? Pick a time. I mean when do you want to start it, the late 70s, the 80s, into the 90s, the early 2000s, maybe today? I don’t know.”
“I do think those guys should be in the Hall of Fame,” he added. “I do think that it’s hard to draw random lines around different players and say, ‘Oh well we know that they didn’t do it.’ Do ya? Is it possible that somebody’s in the Hall of Fame right now that did performance-enhancing drugs? I would say the odds would tell you that there’s somebody in there that did it. So if there’s somebody in there that did it, I say that the best of that era should go in.”
Buck felt like there’s just no definitive way to know whether or not players currently in the Hall of Fame were completely clean of PEDs at some point in their careers.
“It’s hard to be the judge and jury on that, because I don’t think all the evidence is in. And that’s the hard part for me,” he said.
