chris deluca is the national baseball columnist for the "chicago sun-times," one of the hall of fame voters at that meeting. chris, what happened today? >> i think everybody wanted to get together and just talk about this. it's become such a hot issue since the sammy sosa revelation. people needed guidance. rick calendar, one of my colleagues at the sun "times" asked about this last week. we decided to get together before this cub-sox game at u.s. cellular field, and there was a lot of spirited debate. it's very clear that the voters are very passionate about what they're doing. >> what was the heart of the debate? >> well, i think the real issue was do we want guidelines? do we want anything delineated that says, these guys played in a steroid era? we didn't come to any hard and fast conclusions, but i think it weighed heavily and let's just keep going on. we're going to vote the way we voted. guys have already had to make this decision with mark mcgwire. it's going to be a hot topic obviously for next ten, 15, maybe 20 years. and i think everybody kind of realized we really have to

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remembered the press conference where i was and he -- he initially talked to fran spielman a "chicago sun-times" reporter who got him late at night and when he was the angriest and she had a terrific story and basically what he was saying, which he repeated in front of the entire chicago press corps well, you know my son-in-law. he's telling state jobs. why do you think all these people are getting appointed to commissions. how do you think they are getting state jobs. it's $25,000 a pop. and, you know, everyone was a little stunned. and then a couple of weeks later he was particularly talking about christopher kelly, christopher kelly threatened to sue and so dick mel took it back but it was too late. you know, the genie was out of the bottle. the attorney general started the first investigations and that eventually morphed into patrick fitzgerald's investigations and we've seen what happened with that. so it was that -- dick mel created his son-in-law and, in essence, planted the seeds that destroyed him. >> let's talk a little bit about why rod blagojevich had dreams of becoming the presiden