How hypocritical is this!

The baseball writers have chosen to induct no one into the Hall of Fame this year.

Plenty of former players on the ballot — Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio — are certainly Hall of Fame worthy in terms of their statistics.

But in protest of the steroids era, the writers put nobody in.

Five voters turned in completely empty ballots. One guy voted for Aaron Sele, a less than ordinary pitcher. Four guys voted for Steve Finley, a solid, yet far from spectacular, outfielder.

Bonds, Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Piazza (maybe) ... These guys cheated the game, the writers say.

Uhh, yeah, maybe so.

Didn’t Gaylord Perry cheat the game for years with a spitball? He’s in the Hall of Fame.

Didn’t Willie Mays and numerous other players from his era take greenies and uppers to enhance their playing careers?

If more advanced player enhancing drugs were available to them, you can bet your bottom dollar they would have taken them.

These guys are competitors. They want to stay on the field as often as possible, perform at the highest level they can.

That’s why well over 100 major league players — as detailed in the Mitchell Report a few years back — took PEDs while they played the game.

Not all of them — actually, none of them— put up numbers like Bonds and Clemens.

Maybe PEDs can improve your performance. They can’t make you great.

When baseball went on strike and canceled the 1994 World Series, it lost a lot of fans and a lot of luster.

The game took a major hit.

The McGwire-Sosa home run chase of 1998 brought many of those fans back. Their pursuit of 61 home runs was the sports story of the year. Everybody loved it.

And nobody at the time knew these guys were juicing up? Come on. We can’t be that naive.

Now these same guys are considered villains to the game.

If you really want to emphasize character in terms of the Baseball Hall of Fame, you better yank Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and a number of other guys, too.

The guys who really should be yanked are the writers handling the Hall of Fame voting.

Their sanctimonious approach to this whole thing is turning Cooperstown into a sham. Come July 28, the only three inductions will be of gentlemen who have been dead for more than 70 years.

While they may be deserving, they won’t create much of a buzz on the Hall of Fame’s biggest day of the year. Is that supposed to be good for baseball?

Opinions on steroid use — pro or con — in baseball needs to be set aside here. Vote on players based on their abilities, period.