Daily News | Hall of Fame committee rebukes Curt Schilling, fittingly, but also Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens
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As solid a candidate as Schilling is, excluding decorated champions like Bonds and Clemens seems to slam the door on players with PED connections. This is terrible news for Alex Rodriguez, who is in his second year of eligibility and got 34.3% of the Hall of Fame vote last year, and Manny Ramirez, who is in his seventh year of eligibility and got 28.9% last year.
For 15 years, Bonds and Clemens have served as the convenient, unpopular scapegoats for the steroid epidemic of the late 1990s and early 2000s. It’s assumed that several inducted Hall of Fame players might have used steroids, but none carries the cachet of Bonds or Clemens.From Schilling and politics to Ortiz and PEDs: Baseball writers can’t win as Hall of Fame voters | David Murphy Full disclosure: I voted for both. A-Rod and Manny, too. In fact, they were my top four candidates.
At any rate, the contemporary era committee reconvenes in three years, but Schilling is probably done. Bonds and Clemens, too.
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