The Only Real Baseball Superstar Left

Now that A-fraud has admitted using steroids, we now know that just about all of the so-called superstars of this era of baseball were juiced. Were CHEATING!! Were breaking the law!! Only one man stands out from the crowd. Only one man whose exploits made us gasp, made us cheer, gave us hope for the sorry crew we called "Our Team". Only one man who could display every talent needed to play the game at its highest level, hit for average, hit for power, steal bases, play defense and throw with power and accuracy is left for us to cheer. And that man is Ken Griffey Jr.
Forget the McGuires, the Sosas, the Bonds', the Clemens', the Palmiero's and all the rest because none of them could carry Ken Griffey Jr.'s jock!! Griff did it all and he did it all by himself. No help from steroids or human growth hormone. When he was injured he sat out and healed all by himself. Ken missed all or parts of five seasons with the Reds. His total time away from the game while injured during those five years was somewhere in the neighborhood of three and a half seasons!! Three and a half seasons!!!!! If he had been juicing like Bonds et al, there is a good chance those injuries would not have occurred. And if they had, well a few injections of good old HGH would get him back on the field in no time. But he was NOT juicing and STILL managed to reach the 600 home run level for his career.
Ken Griffey Jr. did it the right way. He didn't cheat his fans, he didn't cheat baseball and he didn't cheat himself. He played the game with a joy and a passion that is usually reserved for boys before they learn what it is like to have life kick you in the gut once or twice. He never forgot how lucky he was and he never forgot that a game is supposed to be fun. He was a joy to watch whether he was running down a fly ball and turning a double into an out or using the absolutely sweetest swing in the game to put another fastball effortlessly out of the ballpark. And while totally mesmerizing us with his "make it look easy" talent, he put up first ballot Hall of Fame numbers. The juicers? Their stats mean absolutely nothing. None of them should get anywhere near the Hall of Fame for as long as there is a Hall of Fame. And if that means years when no one gets enough votes to be inducted, then so be it. Because Ken Griffey Jr. WILL be in the Hall of Fame and to have any one on those cheaters in there with him would belittle his talent and his effort to play the game right, to play the game fairly, to play the game with integrity and honesty.
Ken Griffey Jr. is THE greatest baseball player of the era and should be recognized as such. The rest of those guys, the cheaters, can just go home and play with their syringes.