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whether admitted users will find a way and mark mcgwire has failed to garner 25% of the vote and rafael palmeiroll be eligible with bonds, clemens and sosa waiting in the wings. hall of famer ozzie smith offers his take on steroid-era players. >> we as hall of fame members have not had that conversation about exactly where each and every one of them -- i think from an individual standpoint we've all probably had something to say about it so we can only speak from a personal stand points and i think when you look at this era and everything that has transpired the only thing that you can do because there are people who were considered hall of famers before they were the accusations and i think the only thing you can do is put an asterisk by it and it has to read the numbers were accomplished during the steroid era. baseball has always been a game where we've always had an idea of what was real and what wasn't and this particular e era i don know if any of us know what's real and not because we don't know when a guy started using and stopped. from that standpoint it will be tough once guys that hav

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