They were asked torespond in the context of their most important product orproduct line, and the most recently ended planning period(see Table 1 for a brief description). Forty tape-recordedinterviews lasting between 60 and 90 minutes yieldedmore than 1,200 pages of transcripts.
Tim Kurkjian: Yes. Sammy Sosa is a Hall of Famer. There is no definitive proof about his alleged steroid involvement, so in the absence of hard evidence, his numbers are what we go by, and they are of Cooperstown quality. He has the fifth-most home runs in baseball history.
There is also a reasonable chance, though slightly smaller, that Sammy Sosa will come up short of the required votes to maintain his candidacy. And it's even possible that Mark McGwire's presence on the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) Hall of Fame ballot will end after this year. They need to receive votes on a minimum of 5 percent of the returned ballots to be on next year's list, and they might not make it.