More lists have been coming to my attention, not just from print and internet media sources, not just from bloggers making there dream selections, but twice now on MLB Network I have seen them giving us their top 9 or top 25 this or that.

It just so happens that two of the lists MLB Network laid out included the same guy high up on both lists, the one list top ‘Short Stops Ever’ the other list current players destined for the ‘Hall of Fame’.

The player high up on both lists is none other than ‘Alex Rodriguez‘ it seems that since Texas gave him a huge payday to be Short Stop it makes him better than Derek Jeter in the eyes of someone on the MLB Network, on to the other list, they also rank him as the number 1 current player headed to the ‘HoF’, so now the PED’s are going to be overlooked.

I don’t care when any of them, Bonds, A-Rod, Manny, McGwire, used the PED’s, they should still be excluded, just because the testing wasn’t mandatory and the drugs may not have been banned when they chose to digest them, the fact remains that it is still cheating. Anyone knowingly doing things to increase performance that they otherwise wouldn’t want the world to know about or is not a natural process of fine tuning your skill set is wrong.

Let any of them in the HoF and you have to revisit and allow Peter Rose and Shoeless ….