Nothing half-baked about it

One columnist who I should read more often is Jeff Jacobs of the Hartford Courant, but I caught this column about the difficulty of being a Baseball Hall of Fame voter in the age of steroids. Good stuff.

On his decision, so far, not to vote for Jeff Bagwell, who has never been linked with steroids other than by rumor:
"I have wanted to wait a few years to see if anything surfaced. To watch ESPN, Yahoo!, New York Daily News, the Texas media — someone with the resources and vigor — put Bagwell in its headlights and see if he emerges clean. I have no intentions of making him wait forever. I will wait another year or two. If the worst thing I do is to make him enter the Hall of Fame with his teammate Craig Biggio, well, that's damning Bagwell with a great blessing."

(In case you're wondering, "Half-Baked Jake" is what he calls his columns about a series of unrelated items, hence the name of this post.)