MLB: This isn't Russia, is it?

Earlier this week, we had one of the moments that make Major League Baseball special: the announcement of the voting of who would be inducted to this year's Hall of Fame.
Each year, fans and experts alike talk about who will be on the ballot, who was removed, and why certain people should or shouldn't be inducted.
This year was not without controversy, either.
Two men will be inducted to baseball's most hallowed halls this coming July. Those men are Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken, Jr.
The controversy started when a name was mentioned that was to be left off: Mark McGwire.
I was at home that day, and I watched the interviews on ESPN with Gwynn and Ripken, as well as several of the baseball writers who have the privilege to vote for the inductees.
There was a common thread to those who voted against McGwire. Several people said that the feeling among the voters is that they just want to "punish" McGwire for a year or two because of his "alleged," that's right, ALLEGED steroid use.
Before we start getting into right or wrong, lets establish a couple of facts.
FACT: When mark McGwire played major League Baseball, steroids was not on the list of banned substances. The steroid policy was just instituted within the last couple of seasons.
FACT: No one knows for sure if McGwire even DID steroids, except his teammates and whoever his supplier was, if there was one to begin with.
FACT: Take any athlete, especially one who has a frame of 6'5" and weighs around 200 pounds, have him institute a training regimen that includes weight training, and guess what? Over a period of time, he's going to get BIGGER!! That fact can not be disputed. If you think it can be, just ask Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, or even Howie Long or Ray Lewis.
FACT: Unlike Barry Bonds, you can not look at McGwire's statistics and pinpoint a point in time when he began using steroids (if he did). McGwire started popping home runs from his very first year of regular play. If you look at the numbers, McGwire's first year with the Oakland A's was in 1986. Big Mac hit just three homers, but he only played 18 games. In 1987, he played 151 games and hit 49 dingers. He followed that season by hitting 32, 33, and 39 over the next three years. So apparently, even what they called a "tall, skinny, kid" had some pop in his bat from the get-go. From that point forward, he hit at least 30 home runs every year that he played more than 47 games except one, in 1991, when he had a dismal season, knocking out 22 and hitting a horrendous .201.
So, with there being no admission, compounded by the fact that if he did do steroids, it wasn't illegal, and that he can not even be suspected of using steroids based solely on his year-to-year performance, how do these pompous, arrogant, self-important writers have the audacity to appoint themselves judge and jury, and decide to "punish" a man for crimes that there is no proof that he committed, not to mention that they are trying to hold him responsible for doing something that wasn't even against the rules when he played?
This is a situation that is so appalling that I want to throw up. That men could be so full of themselves that they will abuse the little power that they have just so that they can make themselves feel important, as if they are doing us all a favor. Like they are going to show us what justice is.
Give us all a break, guys. We all know that steroids are wrong. Now they are even illegal in MLB.
Now, take the man who was the 1987 American League Rookie of the Year, won home run titles in each league TWICE, broke Roger Maris' 40 year-old single-season record, and has 583 career homers, and do the right thing in 2008 - give Mark McGwire what the evidence shows that he TRULY deserves - and vote him into the Hall of Fame.
After all... this isn't Russia, is it?