Brad Myers of the Wilmington News Journal makes one of the great leaps in logic in the history of logic (hyperbole!):

Mark McGwire finally came clean last week.

Now, it's time for Major League Baseball to do the same.

McGwire admitted he began using steroids before the 1990 season. And MLB didn't really get serious about steroid testing until 2006.

So it's time to either ban every player who played in the major leagues from 1990-2006 from ever being voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, or let Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame -- immediately.

This seems rather extreme, given that gambling on baseball during Rose's career was and is grounds for a lifetime ban - and using steroids was, well, not.

Let's see why he thinks this:

(click "read more" for full story)

Rose admitted that he gambled on baseball games while he was the manager of the Cincinnati Reds. That's certainly a bad thing, because it leads to the possibility that he might have fixed a game or maybe even a few games to serve his own purposes.

But now we're finding out with more and more certainty that almost every major league game from at least 1990 to 2006 was fixed. Why? Because almost every game contained at least one player -- most likely many players -- who were using steroids.

Fixed? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. "Fixed" suggests the outcome of the game was in doubt, because some outside force had exerted influence to determine the victor (or loser).

That clearly wasn't the case. After 1990, for example, McGwire's teams lost 619 games in which he appeared and only made the postseason three times in 11 seasons - winning just one series. It would seem the Cardinals and A's didn't get fixed so well.

Yet Myers plows on:

Every homer McGwire hit after taking his first steroid injection is tainted. Every game he played in which one of his homers was the deciding factor was fixed. Every game that was influenced in any way by any player who had taken steroids was fixed. Those are the cold, hard facts.

Those are not facts - cold or hard, warm or soft.

Let's see how Myers wraps this up:

That's the only way you can legitimately allow any player from this entire era into Cooperstown. Just admit that some of them cheated, but we don't know exactly who, so we'll just let everybody be eligible.

Everyone is eligible. The baseball writers just aren't voting for them.

Of course, you can't do that without saying the same thing about Rose. He has more hits than anybody in the history of the game, so if it's just about statistics, he's in on the next ballot.

Sure, he may have cheated the game. He may have tarnished the sport. But what was worse -- one manager gambling on a few games, or hundreds of players playing thousands of games while benefiting from the use of an illegal drug?

I'm not here to make moral judgments and I believe Rose should be in the Hall of Fame. But a manager betting on the outcome of his team's game is a bigger threat to the integrity of the sport than hundreds of players on every time using performance enhancing drugs.