Really? Are You SERIOUS?!?

       Wednesday, the game of baseball saw its darkest day in quite a while. The Hall of Fame final ballot came out today, and the amount of players who received the necessary 75% of votes is......... 0, nada, el ZIPPO!!!!! No Bonds, no Clemens, no Schilling, no NOTHING! Obviously, this was due to the fact that all of these players played in the "Steroid Era." However, there were only a few guys who have been positively linked to PED's. These are players such as Barry Bonds (a 7-time MVP and the all-time HR leader) and Roger Clemens (a 3,000+ strikeout man and a 300-game winner) who have been released in things such as the Mitchell Report. In these two cases, however, I believed that these two were Hall of Famers without steroids (as I expressed earlier this week).
       Even though there are cases like these, there are plenty of players who are no-doubt Hall of Fame caliber but were not voted in because they were talented and powerful players who played in the Steroid Era and were never proven to be PED users. These were guys such as Curt Schilling, Craig Biggio (who has 3,000 career hits) and the greatest hitting catcher who ever lived, former New York Met Mike Piazza. The fact that these players who should be destined for Cooperstown are left out just because they were born at the wrong time even if there's no proof that they did cheat honestly makes me absolutely SICK!
       And then there are those other guys who I just have no idea why they didn't get voted in: Tim Raines, Jack Morris, and Alan Trammel. Raines is the second-best base-runner/stealer behind Ricky Henderson, Morris was a big-game pitcher, and Trammel was a consistently legitimate hitter. And for guys like these, especially Morris who will have his last shot next year, it doesn't get easier as the years go on. Next season's first-year ballot includes 3 guys who are no-doubt going in next year: Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas. Additionally, former Yankee Mike Mussina is as well on the ballot in 2014, and he may get in based on his winning percentage. Of course, only a certain amount of players can enter The Hall a season, as each writer can only vote in a max of 10 players within a single year.
       Obviously, today is a day that America can look down and frown upon our game and its problem when it comes to Performance Enhancing Drugs.