Annual Baseball HOF Vote Bitch Session

This year the Baseball Writers of America voted in Ken Griffey Jr. at the highest percentage ever (99.3%) and the man who many people loved growing up, a man who actually made baseball fun and enjoyable, was voted in by ALMOST everyone, but of course there are a few assholes in the group that found reason to vote against the best "pure" baseball player that I've seen. Mike Piazza, the best hitting catcher ever, made the HOF despite steroid questions, which I'm happy about (not the steroid questions, but him making it). Jeff Bagwell was again denied entry into the holy land of Cooperstown by 20-some votes. Trevor Hoffman missed out despite being one of two living people with greater than 500 saves. I think this was perhaps due to the sacred cow of being voted in on your first attempt. The only reason I feel he didn't make it is because Mariano Rivera simply was better in the closer role and perhaps some writer's felt he is the only reliever that deserves a first ballot election, which I COMPLETELY disagree with. Tim Raines is on the outside looking in again by receive just under 70% of the vote. Small increases were made by Bonds, Clemens, and McGuire, who I hope at some point will be forgiven for their steroid/PED usage and given entry to Cooperstown. I again don't understand the "holier than thou" approach by writer's on this issue. I'm certain numerous member's in Cooperstown have utilized PED's during their careers, but again the players of the 90's and early 2000's are demonized for utilizing the latest and greatest PED's of their times. I would just like a forum on this debate so that the writer's can at least talk it through and figure out if they can forgive these great players and EVENTUALLY, hopefully sooner rather than later, allow them sanctuary into the sacred Halls of Cooperstown. I feel like Clemens and Bonds are no-brainers because their greatness was extended due to PED's, but not defined by them. Bonds was a three-time MVP before he started looking like a body-builder instead of the lean, mean outfielder who was a legitimate 40-40 threat every year who played Gold Glove quality defense. Clemens was always a workhouse pitcher who throughout the 80's and 90's was still one of the best pitchers in baseball before his suspected PED use started. McGuire is a tougher one since he always possessed super-human power hitting abilities, but was never healthy enough to put up sustained numbers until his suspected PED usage began in the mid-late 90's. It's also clouded by playing with Canseco, who is either a self-serving asshole who sold out other player's and friends for personal gain, or is a pioneer and the only honest player to disclose the widespread PED usage throughout baseball. The new commissioner also denied Pete Rose the right to be inducted for the near future. I again feel like he should be forgiven and allowed Cooperstown during his lifetime rather than posthumously like some other greats, the one I'm most frustrated about was Buck O'Neil. I would again plea with the writer's to open up to the possibility of allowing the Hall to celebrate the greatest players regardless of what is suspected or even proven who dominated their era of baseball. Bitch session is concluded.