QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 25, 2006 -> 12:56 PM)
Compared with the other guys of the steroid era...I think he has to go first ballot, because it makes a statement about the other guys when you consider that the main punishment for having not stood up and said it was a problem or used the stuff is going to be not being a first ballot HOFer. Why not reward the guys who do so cleanly?
That was something I had not considered, and if the voters wish to make his election a statement on that era, I could see a first ballot election. They may also look at 2000 and Frank getting f***ed out of the MVP by a steroid using Jason Giambi.
OK, I'm in the first ballot camp.