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Trekgeekscott -> RE: MLB General Information PT 4 (12/5/2013 2:23:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: twinsfan
Barry Bonds will only get a paragraph here, because one paragraph is all that he needs -- it's perhaps more than he needs. I've written extensively before about why I believe Bonds is the best player of all time, but his Hall of Fame resume should require no more padding than the simple acknowledgment of his seven MVP awards, as well as his holding the all-time career records in both homeruns and walks. The reasons not to vote for Barry Bonds have little to nothing to do with what actually transpired on the field during his career, and we'll deal with those questions down near the end. As a player, Bonds is inner circle Hall of Fame all the way. Denying him entry on the first ballot is the absolute extent to which the writers should punish him.
Two things. He was a cheater. And thus should be punished. He should be held out for as long as possible. Make him wait 13 more years. Second, once you let one known cheater in, you shouldn't consider other's cheating the same way anymore. So let them stand on their own merits. Don't keep out the likes of Sosa, McGwire, Palmeiro because they were cheaters and let Bonds, Clemens etc in.
Bonds was great, no doubt about it.
But so were those other guys.
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