The Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2024 has been announced, but Keith says it might as well be called the “Hall of Justice” at this point.
Keith argues that the game’s best players of the steroid era should be enshrined in Cooperstown, but the likes of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens never got the support necessary, and now, Gary Sheffield is the latest suspected steroid used to fall off the ballot after coming up short on Tuesday.
“The home run chase with Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa saved baseball,” Keith said. “Nobody was saying ‘I’m not going to the ballpark because those guys are juicing. It’s revisionist history. It’s retroactive. It’s hindsight for these guys that gave us thrills, that we loved to watch, to be kept out of the greatest honor, the Hall of Fame, to be immortalized when everyone was doing it. It wasn’t illegal. Nobody got suspended.”
“The Hall of Justice. That’s what it should be called. It’s not the Hall of Fame anymore, because the most famous baseball players aren’t even in it. In what world is Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling, Rafael Palmeiro, all these guys left out. ‘Because you cheated.’ Yeah, the Astros cheated.”