I really like Ken Davidoff’s work but I am struggling to understand why he brings up a question like this and then ultimately decides that the answer is “no”. Just because he read a book in which a college football player said that cocaine made him feel “more confident and nimble“?

Davidoff recounts Tim Raines’ 1982 drug-addled season and mentions other well-known users:

So should Raines and other cocaine users — say, for instance, the names of Gooden, Keith Hernandez or Darryl Strawberry come up in a future Veterans Committee ballot — be penalized for their activities? My inclination is no.

Well, duh. First of all, there are already coke users IN the HOF already, whether we know it or not. Second, talk about a slippery slope. Third, do you stop at coke or add in pot? Where does it end? So why bring it up in the first place? I don’t get this one.