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Former Mets catcher Mike Piazza greets fans at Citi Field in 2009.
Hall of Fame or Hall of Shame?
Staten Island: Bill Madden and John Harper have covered their hypocritical rears by saying they might vote for Mike Piazza (photo) after this year (?Fame result is hall no!? Jan. 10). Is another year going to prove he did steroids? He is guilty, and they know it. Roger Clemens was found not guilty by a jury, but Madden and Harper correctly believe he was guilty. Use the same criteria for Piazza. They know he did it. They would be hypocrites if they vote him in. Ray Magnuski
Staten Island: What I don?t understand is why baseball players who are innocent don?t stand up and show they never used performance-enhancing drugs. Take a polygraph. Release previous drug tests. As a New York sports fan, I hope Mike Piazza stands up, and it wouldn?t hurt for Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera to stand up as well. Right or wrong, they, too, will be scrutinized when they become eligible for the hall. Peter Dembinski
Yorktown Heights, N.Y.: Bill Madden writes that he will never vote any ballplayer into the Hall of Fame who did steroids because of the integrity/sportsmanship clause on the ballot (?Hall vote is right on,? Jan. 10). As a sportswriter for more than 30 years, Madden had to have seen the rampant abuse of steroids in clubhouses during the 1980s and ?90s. I don?t remember him denouncing the use of steroids during that period. Anthony Vegliante
Pitching for the Yanks
Iselin, N.J.: Nobody voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame? How many votes did Sparky Lyle or Bob Meusel get? Sparky was one of the most dominant relievers of the 1970s and won the Cy Young in 1977. Meusel should have been voted in by the veterans committee a long time ago. How about it, Mike Lupica: Campaign to get these two great Yankees into the hall. Mike Bernoske
A-clod
Forest Hills: Why did Alex Rodriguez wait to have his surgery until it?s almost time for spring training? Didn?t want to miss any parties? And why weren?t his children wearing life vests on that boat? Does he drive them without seatbelts? Sherri Rosen
Gun sanity
Hackensack, N.J.: It was nice to hear Gov. Cuomo, a gun owner and hunter himself, come out so strongly in favor of restricting ownership of assault weapons and high capacity magazines. If the Second Amendment disallows such modest proposals, then the First Amendment permits libel, slander and shouting ?fire? in a movie theater. Richard A. Naumann
Off target
Dover Plains, N.Y.: Politicians are blind to the facts about so-called assault rifles. Fact: Less than 2% of gun-related crimes involve an assault rifle. Fact: Texting while driving kills more people than guns, but cell phones are not banned. Fact: A few psychos in planes killed thousands in an instant, but planes are not banned. Banning assault weapons is not the answer. James Yeno
Courting disaster
Glen Oaks Village, L.I.: I find it disturbing that Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin has suspended stop-and-frisk for suspected trepassers outside privately owed Bronx buildings (?Stop and risk,? editorial, Jan. 9). The stop-and-frisk policy is part of why homicides are down. The judge?s ruling will endanger both the police and the public. Frederick R. Bedell Jr.
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