I'm not accusing Maddux of using but many, many pitchers have (and still do). Steroids have a legitimate use as an anti-inflammatory. Pitchers who use steroids recover much more quickly from the stress of throwing hard in an unnatural motion.
Nothing against Greg Maddux but I don't want anybody voted into HOF unanimously. If the true legends of the game like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb can't get voted in unanimously, then I don't want some lesser light to get that honor. I hate it when awards get cheapened. Maddux is a great but 80 years from now, he'll be remembered by only hardcore baseball fans while Babe Ruth will probably still be remembered by the typical person 160 years after his playing days.
Maddux is a great one but he's not the best pitcher of this generation, Mariano Rivera is. It is debatable if Maddux is even the best starting pitcher of this generation when Clemens and Johnson get tossed into the discussion. However, Greg Maddux is absolutely worthy of a first-ballot HOF induction without question. (BTW, first-ballot induction is another distinction which has been cheapened over the past few decades - used to be quite an honor - reserved for only the greatest of the greats.)
A guy I know very high in the Yankee organization, I mean very high, told me that he suspected that Rivera was a PED user back in 96.
Clemens was the best pitcher in the last 30 years, WITHOUT USING STEROIDS, then after the age of 35 he started juicing to pitch longer. No player gets better after the age of 35 without help. I hope Bonds and Clemens and the rest of the lying PED users never get in. If Shoeless Joe Jackson is not in the Hall, and he done nothing, neither should any PED user go in. But I would vote for Pete Rose. He bet on teams when he was a manager. He admitted it. What that has to do with his playing days I will never know.