“Put Bonds In…Put ‘Em All In!” Rich Eisen on Electing Suspected PED Users to Baseball Hall of Fame

Rich Eisen weighs in on the controversial Baseball Hall of Fame balloting this year in which voters were torn over sending suspected/confirmed PED users to Cooperstown such as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and others.
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[@Myshtcity]

That ERA saved Baseball! And they still have less Strike Outs then the players today...

[@MarkWladika]

Bonds is the scapegoat for a whole generation of players.

[@JeffW2000]

Tell that to Pete Rose.

[@toddsalkowski448]

Bonds was a vile, nasty, despicable person! He treated people around him like garbage. Don't think for a minute that's not playing into the writer's decisions.

[@MarkWladika]

@@toddsalkowski448 So you know Barry personally?

[@MarkWladika]

@@JeffW2000 Good point, except gambling was banned while roids were legal according to MLB.

[@bobsbuurgers3714]

Nothing racist to see here folks... Keep it moving... 🖤👀🤡

[@insurgencybuffoonery8065]

Bud Selig turned a blind eye to roids and he’s in the hall lmao

[@bengaltiger96]

Yep. You could make the case that he was the biggest beneficiary of PEDs and the Steroid Era.

[@m.iramiles9310]

Agreed. It's a Hall of Fame, not a Hall of Heroes. Not even taking into account that we have no idea what players might've ingested in earlier eras.

[@JimmyBlues99]

It's meaningless these days...It's become the Hall of Shame

[@byronsmith3152]

But we do know. People admitted to using roids back in the 60's and greenies were served in candy dishes before games during those same times.

[@jaimep3432]

There already in the hall of shame.

[@deankay8894]

its not a hall of infamy though

[@richwilliamson4131]

With what proof?

[@dcdj35]

Writers has no problem giving Bonds and Clemens all those MVPs and Cy Young's. MLB had no problem lining their pockets while these guys revived a DEAD sport. To not have them in is atrocious, to not have them in while Ortiz gets in 1st Ballot is a slap in the face.

[@mehdinaghavi685]

Ortiz: the drug store.

[@tonsouth]

Same with jeff bagwell… taking roids….and yet in hall of fame

[@Py-dr2fv]

the stupid thing is that whole era, everyone used it. these guys just benefited more than the others who used it and sucked. I mean everyone was jacked back then

[@ericbrown1101]

It simply proves that the HOF has been reduced to a popularity contest. The case of Schilling has further proven that. It's sad.

[@eugenedenbrook322]

Now this- this is the best point ever made about this. Not to mention, Big Mac was at first taking things, which were not against the rules.

[@justinryan999]

Steroids saved baseball. Chasing the record brought viewership back after the strike. You can’t tell the story of baseball without it.

[@PianoUniverse]

Destroyed sacred numbers. Hurt baseball.

[@justinryan999]

@@PianoUniverse numbers aren’t sacred. Records get broken all the time. They are talking points. The fact is the broad public couldn’t care less about baseball after the strike. The only thing killing baseball at this point is baseballs handling of its product.

[@stevechristy3244]

Sosa and McGwire basically saved baseball, not steroids. Even though steroids helped.

[@PopOutPaulie]

You can tell the story actually. Bonds and his records are in the HOF he just doesn't have a bust.

[@Hikayuhuy]

@@PopOutPaulie You can't watch a number. We watched Bonds because he did it when no one else could. The number is a reflection of the man and he got to 494 before 2000.

[@thegamerprofessor8416]

The baseball hall of fame states the "tell the history of baseball" right at the entrance. Like it or not...these people are part of that history.

[@reginaldinoenchillada3513]

*means they won but they cheated.

[@johnlewis8934]

@@reginaldinoenchillada3513 the whole sport of baseball is about cheating. The Astros won but no one puts an asterisks next to their ring

[@Goku-dh3rt]

@@reginaldinoenchillada3513 Barry before steroid was still a beast

[@JoeJoe-jx9vv]

@@Goku-dh3rt Not so much sorry not sorry

[@alexnankivell3717]

So Bobby Bonilla should be in the Hall of Fame?

[@DWilliams-ce8nb]

Steroids go back at least to the early 1960's. Even high schools were dishing them out in certain parts of the country. College football programs were absolutely providing them.

[@cato256]

This is facts.

[@axe2grind244]

I read a story about Mantle and Maris actually making a huge bet with each other as to who would hit more home runs before the 1961 season. Allegedly Maris told several teammates,” I’m gonna take that stuff that Mick is taking”. They were experimenting with animal testosterone apparently….or something of that nature.

[@TheBigBigSean]

Greenies too.

[@shackdaddy7106]

Steroids were never a factor in baseball until the 1990s. Until then the conventional wisdom stated that weightlifting was bad for baseball players because it would make them too musclebound. Obviously they needed to be strong but also flexible.

[@axe2grind244]

@@shackdaddy7106 Ummm the 1986 Mets think this is a funny comment. Chris Davis also thinks this is funny considering he was hitting 50 bombs while he was juicing and then was god awful once he stopped so pretty much everything you said was inaccurate.

[@therush420]

HOF is basically “You be nice to us, and we’ll be nice to you.”

[@gadbammit4736]

Fucking worse than the Goddamn Grammys

[@jessecastillo3841]

The only time I watched and cared about baseball. Was during that time. It was amazing to watch.

[@samuelfaria8522]

Why in the Hell Barry Bonds is being blackballed from the Hall of Fame for 10 years while David Ortiz who tested positive for steroids is a first Ballot? The Baseball Hall of Fame is the biggest Joke in sports history.

[@Nirvanaowns54]

Bonds not being in is a disgrace. Despite PED's he still had a BA of .298 career over 22 years. You realize you still have to HIT the ball... this is unreal. 7 MVP's!!!! Enjoy your lockout, MLB

[@Nighthawk-8050]

Bonds was a Hall of famer way before the steroids

[@Mox3712]

He WAS a HOF'er before the roids, that's true but taking the roids erases all that. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime...

[@stringer2295]

People really think steroids make you good at baseball lol

[@MrKneri22]

@@Mox3712 it wasnt against baseball rules at the time, and baseball wasnt testing for it. So there was no crime.....

[@jamesvorraso3736]

If they put bonds in it's a disgrace

[@patrickmurphy3151]

I will never go to Cooperstown again! The best players are not in the HOF therefore it is irrelevant. The sportswriters SUCK!

[@petersurdo4984]

Baseball needs to face their hypocrisy.

[@clumsysmurf8109]

It makes sense to leave out the PED players that are borderline (Palmeiro). But the ones that are well above and beyond like Bonds and Clemens doesn't make sense.

[@danielstack4158]

Palmeiro had over 3,000 hits and over 550 homeruns. He would never be borderline if it wasn't for his PED use.

[@SirVic42]

@@danielstack4158 He was also an ace with the glove at first base for the first dozen years of his career. He was a shoo-in until he tested positive.

[@danielstack4158]

@@SirVic42 Oh yeah indeed, 3 gold glove awards I didn't mention.

[@nacholibre8628]

Palmeiro is a hall of famer

[@ericbrown1101]

@@nacholibre8628 I can't stand Palmeiro, but I still think he should be in the Hall.

[@FuzzyStayBuzzin183]

David Ortiz got in bc he's likable and the voters knew he did drugs

[@Nighthawk-8050]

That's why Big papi got in he's likable even though he was juiced up your right

[@dennisobrycki4029]

Cheapens all HOF members IMHO

[@christopherkiraly8702]

I will go so far as to say baseball as we know it wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for ROIDS. After the 94-95 strike caused them to cancel the season... people were not coming back in droves to watch baseball, because they didn't care anymore. Football was beginning it's ascendancy towards being the top sport in the US. If it wasn't for McGuire and Sosa going after Maris' record, a lot of casual baseball fans would not have even cared about baseball. The homerun chase only brought people's eyes to the game again. Where would baseball be today, if not for that homerun chase?

[@spsawyer22]

A fact most forget.

[@sumyungguy88]

They collected the profits and threw the players under the bus.

[@ezramclain6320]

We all knew something was wrong that year but it was fun. I'm a Cubs fan I remember 30/30 club sosa and 40/40 Bonds before they both blew up. They were both great players before the roids.. same with Maguire. And they saved baseball after the strike.

[@ThePecky1966]

@Derrell Connor ...and to top it off, Selig is in the Hall of Fame. This ish is unbelievable!

[@tomjones2121]

If you're going to put these cheaters in , then you need to put Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson in , and Jackson and Rose go in first

[@gravitronlocksport9925]

It's been estimated that up to 80% of the league was taking amphetamines by the 60s and 70s. Mays, Mantle, Stargell, just to name a few, have been implicated by multiple players over the years of not just taking them, but for throwing them around like candy. Gaylord Perry openly talked about how he was cheating, wrote a book about how he was cheating WHILE STILL PLAYING, and got caught cheating in a game, still just waltzed right in to the Hall. Tim Raines is in the Hall despite being named in the 85 drug trials and admitting to cocaine during games. The Hall of Fame of fame is filled with cheaters. Just can't have these ones getting in there, they might ruin its reputation or something.

[@axe2grind244]

Maris and Mantle were both taking animal test. They bet each other a huge amount of money who would hit more HR’s before the ‘61 season. Maris asked the entire team and clubhouse where he could get the “pills” Mick was taking so he could make it even and win the bet.

[@gadbammit4736]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug

[@useyourblues]

He made a great point that actually sways my opinion - The Commissioner of Baseball from the Steroid Era is enshrined in the Hall... so why aren't the players?

[@aaronhiggs]

Put them all in. But also acknowledge that they were doing PEDS. It happened. It doesn’t change the skill needed to be in the HOF.

[@cain2k]

Facts

[@partypandamonium9116]

I could take enough steroids to have arms the size of watermelons, I’m still not hitting a home run off of a MLB pitcher

[@maxazzopardi7446]

if peds were in the 50s willie mays, duke snider, and sandy koufax may of used. i hate the moral high-ground people who act like players from the 90s were uniquely corrupt.

[@BeefPapa]

@@partypandamonium9116 This argument is overused and irrelevant. If you could already hit a baseball (like these guys) and then you add steroids..... I'll let you figure that one out.

[@camreese]

The steroids did change the skill that made them hall of famers tho

[@BlessedAreTheCheesemakers]

what a joke. Papi in but no Bonds? One of them tested positive and it wasn't Bonds.

[@camreese]

Bonds tested positive twice and Papi didnt he cleared his name dont spread disinfo

[@camreese]

Papi never tested positive for PEDs, but Bonds did twice don't spread disinfo do some research first, Ortiz was linked to a discredited 2003 screening and never failed again after that. Bonds did fail a test in 2000

[@Vic-Vega]

@@camreese "He never tested positive." "He never failed again after that." 🤔🤔😂🤣

[@BlessedAreTheCheesemakers]

@@Vic-Vega clown comments from cam

[@tylermccann848]

As if the voters aren't fallible. Seeing just another example why there shouldn't be a character clause in voting. You simply can't tell the story of baseball without guys like Bonds, Sosa, McGuire, Schilling, Clemens and even Rose... All legendary players.

[@Y2K2PointO]

Are they gonna remove all the guys who played during segregation and got an unfair advantage? Didn’t think so.

[@Thaeffintruth]

THIS !!!

[@ericbrown1101]

Or all the amphetamine users? And spitballers?

[@smittydittysittingpretty9302]

Who’s to say that roided hitters weren’t facing roided pitchers? I bet there were roided pitchers too. Eric Gagne comes to mind.

[@MiniatureMorpheus]

Not to mention my guy Troy Percival starting up the sticky ball rotation before rpm cameras were tracking it.

[@spsawyer22]

@@MiniatureMorpheus Gaylord Perry is in the HoF and he's known for doctoring the ball lol.

[@U.S._ARMYGWVDSS]

Bless You Rich Eisen ! "Barry Barry" !

[@stoniestarks3970]

Pugh, Bagwell, and Ortiz all had steroids allegations and failed test and they are in the HOF but these two can’t get in smh crazy

[@djgargar]

This is real simple: You're going to put baseballs and bats hit/used by Barry Bonds in the Hall Of Fame, but not the player himself? That's insanity.

[@jaimep3432]

Hall of shame

[@stephenmonachello6256]

If they put Clemens and Bonds in, they have to put Pete Rose.

[@Nighthawk-8050]

And Curt Schillings that's really a travesty that he's not in

[@BeefPapa]

I mean it's really not the same type of cheating. One helps your team win, while the other is just for self enrichment.

[@denistuohy2535]

Idk I used to believe Rose should be in but there’s a massive difference between steroids before they were banned and gambling in games when it’s literally posted everywhere in every clubhouse the consequences of gambling. I wouldn’t hate it but I’m not exactly clamoring for it either

[@Wyndamn]

Man people really changed their attitudes as soon as Pete Rose was brought up went from "HELL YEAH BRO" to "Hey, hey, hey, hey wait a second now" 😆😆😆 cheating is cheating but it's a different kind of cheating ??? Like how does that work exactly ???

[@jamilp2869]

Bonds belongs in the Hall, period.

[@saintsfan39475]

I still remember McGwire and Sosa racing for the homerun crown as one of the most exciting times of baseball. I miss that excitement. I barely pay attention to baseball now. Those players (in the steroid era) were great for the game.

[@ThePecky1966]

It was the most excited I was about baseball in my life.

[@jaimep3432]

You must be a fan of the Russian olympic team.

[@shanaeverowe9626]

His point at around 5:45 is all I am about. If they are so against these supposed steroids users, take all reference of them out. Not just their plaque in the fancy hall

[@jaimep3432]

That would be awsome

[@HarryJoiner]

0:57 - Great operational definition of HOF: “… you cannot tell the story of the sport without including this person …”

[@dennisobrycki4029]

I don't agree with that statement. The sport has been and always will be bigger than any individual

[@johnlewis8934]

@@dennisobrycki4029 but it’s an actual fact though. When you hold the Home run record for both a single season and all time home runs you deserve to be in the Hall. Especially when it’s no definitive proof of you using drugs and you had a hall of fame career before the steroid era

[@dennisobrycki4029]

@@johnlewis8934 the size of his head when he was playing should be proof for anyone! 🤣

[@michaellalli7693]

The Hall of Fame is losing interest with fans due to the BBWA that don’t use discernment while holding personal bias. Due to free speech or the athletes off field behavior toward the media. Bonds Clemens Manny A Rod all should be in the HOF - it’s a joke

[@conman1495]

I feel that despite what they did or are accused of doing, Bonds, Clemons and these other great players should be in the HOF because they are a part of baseball history. Make a section for players who were great but stained their careers in some way. Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe and the Black Sox, etc are historically important players that shouldn't be overlooked or shunned because of what they did.

[@eugenedenbrook322]

I like this suggestion

[@Vic-Vega]

First video comment & still the best.

[@iraevans2013]

What I take away here is this , (personally) IDC if the writers vote for or against anybody but GODDAMMIT vote for someone. Zero vote should mean forfeit your vote. Someone else gets to vote instead.

[@marvingreen583]

Thank you, Rich Eisen for telling the truth. Baseball didn't test for it, so. Who is to say who cheated and who didn't?!?!?!? We don't know who is the who's that cheated.

[@aioniansage6081]

Bonds is a cheat. You really going to rank Bonds over Aaron who was 'clean?'

[@ctg404]

@@aioniansage6081 where’s the proof? I’m waiting… Ortiz is the real cheat! Didn’t he tested positive genius?

[@aioniansage6081]

@@ctg404 Go kid your grandmother.

[@at2130]

@@aioniansage6081 Hell yeah I am. Hank wasn't half the player Barry was. Not too mention Barry didn't take anything until he was 34 years old. Hank wasn't clean himself.

[@aioniansage6081]

@@at2130 Barry is a cheat and a fraud ! The only people worse would be those defending cheats and frauds ! AND THE BASEBALL WORLD AGREES WITH ""ME."" Put that in your ball-bag and smoke it !

[@nileslaborde8120]

If you put them in... Pete Rose & Shoeless Joe Jackson need to be put in as well...

[@allenwatson9273]

I understand protecting the shield or logo or whatever. But as a Hall of Fame you dont have the all hits leader in the hall. The homerun leader not in, and one of the premiere starting pitchers in the past 40 years all not in the hall. So what we have is the hall of good or the hall of the nice guys.

[@mkadoza]

Yet another reason that Baseball is Dying. They've want to pretend like two decades didnt happen.

[@inkyoo8]

The Houston Astros got to keep their Championship after cheating. But the players don't get into the HOF? Hypocrites.

[@michaelmcclure3918]

MLB made that call.

[@inkyoo8]

The MLB provides access and relationships for the writers. Without the MLB, the writers wold be jobless. Therefore, yes, the writers and MLB are hypocrites.

[@carloscavazos9440]

Excellent point

[@ac8274]

Writers never had any business voting for the HOF in the first place. People who have never played the sport do not deserve to vote for who goes into the HOF. MotherEFF the Baseball writers.

[@NightcoreNewbie]

This whole thing doesn't make any sense to me either. Ortiz tested positive for PEDs before but suddenly the other players who also did didn't get in? Sounds like bias to me.

[@mehdinaghavi685]

Ortiz is often called the drugstore.

[@323johnnybravo]

Everyone was juiced out of their minds back then. Clemens and Bonds were already so good that juice made them god tier much like lance Armstrong. Put them in. This is stupid.

[@MrMegaGamerMan]

Love the baseball coverage! Too many shows just start talking about basketball when football is over (or almost over). Where's hockey?? Where's baseball?? Don't follow the herd!

[@NateBee]

They should be in the hall of fame but remove those fake home run records.

[@michaelmccourt4992]

Bonds was a HOF player before steroids ran rampant through the league.

[@markosekulic119]

Hope Curt Schilling gets in too. Dude was awesome in his days. They should keep other things out of way for selecting him to hall of fame.

[@michaels.chupka9411]

and with all the hypocrisy and complicity between the players, the owners, and mlb, now you can understand why bud selig should not be allowed anywhere near the hall. and why were they doing it? to boost the popularity/monetary haul for the sport.

[@DMJoeBing]

I literally liked this before it played. This has been my stance since the first rumblings of PEDs were heard. There's a ton of scrupulous players with questionable moral standards already in. Babe Ruth? Notoriously slept with prostitutes, which ended his first marriage, contacted syphilis from it. Gaylord Perry and Whitey Ford? They, among many other pitchers, doctored the ball every start. What about the 75% of players in the 1970s that used amphetamines ("greenies"), including most of the HOF inductees from that time? Or how about Pud Galvin, who at 32 felt he needed more has in the tank, so he drank GROUND UP MONKEY TESTICLES to try and get more testosterone...in 1889.

[@alestev24]

You are so correct.

[@jkaise42]

The fact that Pete still isn’t in an abomination

[@CityLover117]

Thanks for the shout out to the beauty of upstate NY rich! Our sunsets are truly have unique shades of red orange and purple

[@frankallen3634]

Bonds was a hall of famer well before the homeruns. At least we have a murderer in the hall. The steroid era was the only enjoyable time in baseballs long and boring history

[@DanielOrteez]

If their stats don't have asterisks then their HOF plaques shouldn't have asterisks either.

[@Theiliteritesbian]

A museum shows the good and the bad throughout history. Its a place for learning, not just another way to advertise.

[@Joseph-lz5er]

Ortiz knows without the PED's he would have been a 250- 260 average hitter with 25 to 30 homerun guy. A good player but no way a HOF level player. He also knows, Clemens and Bonds were better overall players than he was.

[@michaelotten2724]

Luis gonzalez? 50 homeruns?😂. Put bonds in hof!!

[@dperl5640]

Bottom line Ortiz tested positive for PED use. And got in first ballot. That is all you need to know. How do writers use that as an excuse for some and not others?

[@letmediecast]

Ortiz wasn't fucking a 15-year-old at the height of his career... like Roger Clemens. Can we seriously not see the real reason? No answer for Barry Juicer Bonds though.

[@denistuohy2535]

2:10 I read an article once that proved Brady Anderson didn’t do roids it was really interesting

[@jc--sta1664]

It's the Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, not the Ethics and Morality Hall of Fame & Museum.

[@louisnemzer6801]

"Do you want to know the terrifying truth? Or do you want to see me sock a few dingers?"

[@spsawyer22]

Still one of the greatest lines in that show's history.

[@heartcurious_snowman]

Criteria clause has got “character” to it as well.

[@raycapetillo5569]

Same thing for Pete Rose, one of two players to ever hit 4000 + hits. Is he a role model? No. However, his baseball abilities are undeniable.

[@BidenIsKing]

Can’t wait til they fix the hall! Bonds, Maguire, Popi and little Sammy Boy! Man, Sammy was so damn positive, love that dude! Maybe Rose could introduce them all!

[@jenniferrenolds2226]

90s !!!!! What a time

[@dannyd7368]

How many times can you let us know you worked at ESPN

[@BrunoJaws]

I remember being a little kid at a Padre Pirates game and a skinny Barry Bonds was stealing bases robbing homeruns hitting home runs talking crap to the fans . He was very arrogant and a great baseball player. You could tell he was a hall of famer by the way he walk. He was that good and constantly beat my Padres with homeruns before the steroid era. He was a skinny athletic fast powerful 5 tool player from 86 to 94 best in the game. From a Padre fan Barry is a clear cut Hall of Famer.

[@byronsmith3152]

I think it is funny people say skinny Barry. The dude was 6' 1" and 190 damn pounds. That is not some skinny dude LOL. Now compared to 230 lbs, I agree but 190 is not small.

[@jaimep3432]

@@byronsmith3152 someone who is 6'1 should weight 200 pounds genius

[@byronsmith3152]

@@jaimep3432 I think logic has left you a long time ago. All I said was a guy at that height. who ways 190 Lbs is not a small and skinny dude. SMDH.

[@renlysotherlover294]

Personally I think they should all be in and frankly I wish they would give them back the greenies and peds. For me as a kid that was the best era of baseball and I miss it terribly. Todays game is so boring to me as an adult

[@HectorGonzalez-gb2qj]

MLB profited from Bonds and the other dudes in that era success that’s how hypocritical is that league and baseball is as a SPORT. That’s why? They suck as a PRODUCT and need to change for there relevance.

[@kavellifrancois1794]

Baseball HOF is ridiculous

[@davew4377]

Big Mac and Sousa home run Chase was the best season ever

[@michaelmojica9057]

Just an excellent take. I'm in agreement, put them in.

[@TWP13]

Of course the voting is broken. Just like it is in the NFL and the NBA.

[@kingcali6507]

Money talks

[@14isoldenough]

I feel like every football player that used pain killers should be removed from the HOF.

[@mcleanse]

Except McGwire has no hall of fame numbers besides his home run total. He doesn't even have 2000 hits.

[@TheCancerkilla]

The writers had no problem cashing their checks covering them. Baseball team owners had no problem lining their pockets and building new stadiums, due to the increased revenue and renewed popularity. Selig had no problem as long as the game was was profitable. Now they want to act holier than thou. Hypocrites. All of them.

[@donphilp7511]

Do not even suggest you are going to change your mind and honor cheaters

[@roymaez5876]

Tons of pitchers were using also

[@denistuohy2535]

I’m waiting for a good argument for keeping Wagner, Helton, Rolen, Kent, Nathan, Papelbon and Burhle our of the hall.

[@jsain360]

Good players not HOF, if Fred McGriff isn't in, then Kent, Rolen, and Helton shouldn't be in

[@denistuohy2535]

@@jsain360 I think McGriff should be in. Kent has the most home runs by a second baseman ever he HAS to be in.

[@gldn9199]

Awards for cheating smh 🤦

[@robertdice7786]

This world is so hypocritical because alot of businesses, sponsorships, and betting people profited off of it. The same people pointing fingers today, weren't complaining back then!

[@vintagevinylvets1187]

“It was awesome!” Yes it was Rich, yes it was.

[@TheGingerExpress243]

The only reason papi is in and Clemens and Bonds aren't is because papi was friendly with the media and they weren't

[@mikevargas809]

never can understand why you want to reward cheaters

[@Pigpensblanket]

The steroid Era of baseball, is the Era that saved baseball from dying out

[@BASS_the_3rd]

Hell no. Absolutely not.

[@mainman127]

If they all go in then Dick Allen has to go in too …he was scariest hitter for over a decade. That would work…

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

Main man dick Allen? He makes harold baines look like babe Ruth. Dick Allen wasn’t even close to hall of fame. It’s outrageous

[@ClexaPride]

I always said create a separate wing for 1990 - 2005

[@SuperLake16]

Of course the coward and hypocrite wouldn’t mind.

[@Hard_7_Iron]

I pay a lot to see excellence. I don’t care if they used enhancement drugs….just be good! We all pay to SEE THE BEST.

[@alec1430]

Truth!!!

[@collinkenney4573]

I feel if we can let known cheaters into the hall of fame why can't we let Pete rose in?

[@tonyharris4389]

Bonds is the best b ball player to ever swing a bat and he’s a golden glove defender numerous seasons it’s a embarrassment he’s not in hof

[@777FreakyD]

If they all had came clean originally, I think we'd forgive/forget.

[@sunnyberlin3521]

Baseball is quickly becoming irrelevant to the younger generations. At the same time, the old establishment is bring stubborn and stuck in their own ways. Why not highlight and market the careers of Bonds, Mcguire and Clemens and introduce them to the kids? Let's not pretend that they would be shocked by steroid use or haven't been exposed to these topics already.

[@smeeks7]

I'm 62 and was a huge baseball fan. They have beat the Fandom out of me. It's still my favorite game but I don't watch it anymore.

[@michaelotten2724]

I recently got to go to cooperstown and you are right about all the stuff is in there but they dont have plaques and deserve to have em. Heck big papy is in there! He juiced.

[@catgolfer1]

Willie Mays is still the greatest postwar player.😺

[@dennisrobbins7857]

Fact, straight up fact! Mr. Mays, Bonds' Godfather, is ths best all around player of all time.

[@mneugent7658]

Its a museum. They let Ortiz in? That seals it, put them all in. Baseball is entertainment and you know the PEDs were everywhere and also NOT against the rules. Face it, every generation would've used them if they could.

[@8ballsix27]

If it was so easy to be great with PEDs why didn’t everyone do it

[@Obiter3]

Uh oh. Did my man Rich Eisen use this word "suspected," intentionally? Applies ZERO percent to Roger Clemens. Covering the sport '96 to '03 isn't carte blanche to absolve these players. It's not like you're Tim Kurkjian in that respect. I like you a lot, Rich, but you give yourself a smidge too much credit. But then again, if their Commissioner is in, all bets are off. Enshrine every player he turned a blind eye to.

[@neilm2794]

No interest in seeing Bonds in; he made a mockery of the sport. The HOF is a sham anyway - no Pete Rose and no Roger Maris? It’s not a Hall of Fame. Maris still holds the legitimate home run record season, 60 years later.