I'd like you to write a first-person point of view sports article, like the kind you post online or send to the local news, about why Sammy Sosa should be in the hall of fame.
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I'd like you to write a first-person point of view sports article, like the kind you post online or send to the local news, about why Sammy Sosa should be in the hall of fame.
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Sammy Sosa deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame and it is a travesty that he is let out. Yeah, I'm a north sider from Chicago and I bleed Cubby blue but Sosa is nothing short of a legend. He brought baseball back from the brink of obscurity and now baseball just wants to use him as a scapegoat.

Every baseball fan from the 90s remembers Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire chasing Roger Maris' record and finally eclipsing it. The year was 1998 and it captivated the whole nation. Two men from historic rival teams going all summer long trying to outlast and outhit the other. It was nothing short of epic and without Sosa's race, baseball would not be the popular sport that it is today.

His resume is impressive too. He hit over 600 home runs which not even 10 players in the entire history of the sport have done. He also won an MVP award in 1998 and numerous other awards like Silver Sluggers and was a perennial all-star. Sammy Sosa embodied baseball in the late 90s and early 00s. But now the industry is doing him wrong by trying to sweep him and all those other great hitters under the rug.

Yes, I know it was the steroid era.  But everyone was juicing and we all knew it. It was that unspoken compact that nobody ever brought up because it didn't need to be said. The league knew it and wanted to profit from all the eyes on the sport, we fans knew it but we were enjoying the competition too much to care, and the players knew it but were reaching new heights in their careers. I'm not saying it was okay but I am saying the players we loved shouldn't be the ones bearing the blame for it all. I, as a fan, share in the culpability and still want the best of that era in the hall. Players like Sosa.

So please don't let his legacy fade away. The numbers back it up and if you want to shave off 100 home runs he's still an amazing athlete. Plus you add on how much he helped revive America's past-time and it can't be denied that Sosa belongs in the hallowed halls of Cooperstown. 
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I'd like you to write a first-person point of view sports article, like the kind you post online or send to the local news, about why Sammy Sosa should be in the hall of fame.</s>
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Sammy Sosa deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame and it is a travesty that he is let out. Yeah, I'm a north sider from Chicago and I bleed Cubby blue but Sosa is nothing short of a legend. He brought baseball back from the brink of obscurity and now baseball just wants to use him as a scapegoat.

Every baseball fan from the 90s remembers Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire chasing Roger Maris' record and finally eclipsing it. The year was 1998 and it captivated the whole nation. Two men from historic rival teams going all summer long trying to outlast and outhit the other. It was nothing short of epic and without Sosa's race, baseball would not be the popular sport that it is today.

His resume is impressive too. He hit over 600 home runs which not even 10 players in the entire history of the sport have done. He also won an MVP award in 1998 and numerous other awards like Silver Sluggers and was a perennial all-star. Sammy Sosa embodied baseball in the late 90s and early 00s. But now the industry is doing him wrong by trying to sweep him and all those other great hitters under the rug.

Yes, I know it was the steroid era.  But everyone was juicing and we all knew it. It was that unspoken compact that nobody ever brought up because it didn't need to be said. The league knew it and wanted to profit from all the eyes on the sport, we fans knew it but we were enjoying the competition too much to care, and the players knew it but were reaching new heights in their careers. I'm not saying it was okay but I am saying the players we loved shouldn't be the ones bearing the blame for it all. I, as a fan, share in the culpability and still want the best of that era in the hall. Players like Sosa.

So please don't let his legacy fade away. The numbers back it up and if you want to shave off 100 home runs he's still an amazing athlete. Plus you add on how much he helped revive America's past-time and it can't be denied that Sosa belongs in the hallowed halls of Cooperstown. </s>
