Fuck you Joe Morgan! Seriously...
Suspected and confirmed steroid users have been on the Hall of Fame ballot since 2006, with Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens in particular having been eligible since 2013, and you're waiting until one year after Bonds and Clemens surpassed the 50% mark to basically order voters to blackball steroid users? I'm going to tear this apart piece by piece.
1) Morgan was teammates with Pete Rose, who is permanently banned from Baseball for committing the Cardinal Sin, betting on Baseball. Morgan has championed this man's Hall of Fame candidacy (and for the record, players on the Permanently Ineligible List are ineligible for the Hall of Fame for as long as they remain on that list), and has even attended Cincinnati Reds events during which Rose was honored. So how can you sit in confidence with a person who bet on Baseball while blackballing alleged and confirmed steroid users?
2) Morgan's era was full of players using amphetamines and cocaine. The players using such substances most certainly included Hall of Famers. In fact, just last year, Tim Raines was inducted despite having admitted to cocaine use during the Pittsburgh Drug Trials.
3) Wanna bring up that Character Clause? The fact that the Hall of Fame already has players, managers, owners, League Presidents, and Commissioners who, in addition to using Greenies and Blow, have also done things ranging from drinking during Prohibition and womanizing, to defending and upholding the Color Line, certainly shows how much that clause is really worth in practice. Charles Comiskey grossly underpaid his players (to the point nowhere he didn't even pay for uniform laundry) so badly (even by 1910s standards) that 8 of his players accepted bribes from a gambler with ties to the Mob to throw the 1919 World Series, and he's in the Hall. This made Comiskey the #1 enabler of the Black Sox Scandal. Kennesaw Mountain Landis, the very first Commissioner of Baseball, maintained the Color Line literally until his dying day, and then some. He was in office from 1920 until his death in 1944, and was inducted immediately after his death. Three years later, the Color Line was broken with the Major League debut of Jackie Robinson. Even players who have cheated in a lower tech fashion are in the Hall of Fame. For example, Gaylord Perry threw illegal spitballs throughout his career, and despite actually getting caught the year before he retired, he still got inducted.
4) In 1994, the players went on strike, and that strike cancelled the remainder of the season, including the postseason. This marked the first time since 1904 (a New York Giants boycott) that there was no World Series, and fans were so furious that many of them swore never to attend another game. Then the Steroid-induced Home Runs came, and the same fans who swore never to attend another game suddenly came back to the ballparks to see these Homers, and the 98 Home Run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa dominated national headlines (spoiler alert: McGwire and Sosa were later linked to PED use). So you see, while steroids tainted the game and some of its records in the minds of some, one thing cannot be denied; Steroids actually saved Baseball from the 94 Strike by putting butts back into the seats that the Strike emptied. Does anyone really think that McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds would have put all those butts in seats without the Steroids? I highly doubt it.
5) Suspected users are already in the Hall, and so are enablers. Mike Piazza, Jeff Bagwell, and Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez have been rumored to have done steroids, and the only shred of evidence against ANY of them is against Pudge, and it was the testimony of none other than Jose Canseco (who has established a track record of being right about certain players he has alleged to have done steroids, including himself). All 3 players have been inducted in the last 2 years. Furthermore, no person in Baseball has benefited from the Steroid Era more than the Commissioner of Baseball during that era, Bud Selig. He got in the Hall of Fame just this past year.
I think I rest my case on this one.
. If they play as well as they did tonight, they'll probably win, which will be absolutely fantastic, of course 
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