For years now, there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not players who tested positive for steroids and other PEDs or Performance Enhancing Drugs should be allowed to be inducted into the Major League Baseball hall of fame. I full heartedly believe that these players do not deserve the same honors as players who have spent their whole careers clean of these drugs, and put the work in in the weight room, instead of getting juiced.

I do agree that players like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are legends who were some of the best in the game, but I still believe they do not deserve the same honors as Ken Griffey Jr., Frank Thomas, and newly inducted players such as Jim Thome, Chipper Jones, and Vladimir Guerrero. Because why should we hold players who cheated to the same honor as players who spent their whole careers clean? Even the Hall of Fame chairman wants to keep him out.

Growing up as kids, we were always taught that cheating is frowned upon and that there would be consequences if we got caught cheating.

Say you and a classmate are preparing for a big exam tomorrow in your class, you study all week for it and even pull an all-nighter for the exam while your classmate stole the study guide and cheats on the exam. You both get perfect scores on the exam even though your classmate who cheated got caught, how would you feel? Pretty pissed right? You worked so for that exam while you classmate got caught cheating and still gets the same honor as you.

The same goes for MLB players, if a player like Barry Bonds who is a legend who tested positive for steroids get inducted in the hall of fame, then he would be taking the place of someone who spent their whole career clean. To me, I think that is unfair because steroid and PED users do not deserve the same honor as players who are clean regardless of how good they were. For more information click here .

Recently, I have seen articles defending players who tested positive for steroids and why they should be allowed into the hall of fame. I do agree with one point that was made, where Barry Bonds was one of the best players in the MLB in 1997 before the “steroid era” began and before all the allegations were made against him.

Although this is a solid point, I must respectfully disagree because this is still no excuse that should be used to make his case for the hall of fame. He still took steroids, he still cheated and he should not be rewarded by being inducted into the hall of fame.

But that doesn’t just go for Bonds, or Sosa or McGwire, it goes for any player who tested positive for the use of steroids. It should not matter when they took steroids, they still cheated and there should be consequences for players who cheat, regardless of what fetes they have achieved.

People have also tried to argue with me that Barry Bonds is the current home run record holder at 762, so he should automatically be in the hall of fame despite the fact he used steroids. Every time I hear this I always say, So? He still cheated. Because it is the truth, holding a scoring title is still no excuse for taking steroids, it shouldn’t be something to help us look past the fact that he cheated.

When we look at the hall of fame players, we look at players who have had decorated careers because they worked for it in the weight room, in the batting cages, and on the field. These players have been clean and worked for these achievements, they’re Hall of Famers for a reason. Not because they cheated their way through their careers. For more information click here.

My point is, it should not matter how decorated your career was, no matter how many records you have or even if you are considered to be the one of the greatest players of all time, if you cheated at all during your career, you do not deserve the honor of being inducted into the hall of fame and be forever immortalized among players who had clean careers and worked their asses off day to get to where they are today.

When it comes to sports, there are not cutting corners, hard work is the only way to success and I am a firm believer in this. Cheating is so often frowned upon in our society, so why don’t we frown upon it when it comes to baseball?