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Now that the government has given up trying to pin the rap on him when the appeals court overturned the only 2011 conviction of 'Obstruction of Justice" on Bonds, it is time I believe for the BWAA to come off their high horses and vote Barry Bonds into the HOF. I agree with this article tat appeared in New York Times on the same topic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/s...ntentCollection=Home Page&pgtype=article&_r=0
"Finally free of legal entanglement, Bonds could, or should, become the example by which baseball can bring greater clarity to its moral ambiguity and ever-shifting standards that are now being applied to the multitude of high-end achievers from a tarnished era."
"Bonds’s case, he added, “is even more complicated because of the records he shattered, the curmudgeonly personality he is.”
Mosher added, “He’s in limbo — and probably will be after our lifetime, and his.”
"That would be a shame for baseball as much as it would for Bonds because the sport needs less rigid thinking and more enlightened contemplation as it grapples with a problem that isn’t going away and is only likely to create more confusion, along with new culprits."
Even Bob Costas has changed his mind and would vote Bonds into HOF because according to him he was a HOF before even being accused of using performance enhancement drugs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/s...ntentCollection=Home Page&pgtype=article&_r=0
"Finally free of legal entanglement, Bonds could, or should, become the example by which baseball can bring greater clarity to its moral ambiguity and ever-shifting standards that are now being applied to the multitude of high-end achievers from a tarnished era."
"Bonds’s case, he added, “is even more complicated because of the records he shattered, the curmudgeonly personality he is.”
Mosher added, “He’s in limbo — and probably will be after our lifetime, and his.”
"That would be a shame for baseball as much as it would for Bonds because the sport needs less rigid thinking and more enlightened contemplation as it grapples with a problem that isn’t going away and is only likely to create more confusion, along with new culprits."
Even Bob Costas has changed his mind and would vote Bonds into HOF because according to him he was a HOF before even being accused of using performance enhancement drugs.