TLDR: Bonds and Clemens were tremendous assholes to their teammates, opponents, and everyone else for decades; and because of limited MLB rosters and practical limits on aggregate salaries, PED users literally and figuratively inflicted damages on players both in the Hall and in the larger group of ex players…

Exactly — it’s not coincidental that there were serious upticks for Bonds and Clemens when younger writers came in. It’s not simply “they love stats”, that’s a silly argument because no one is more deserving than either of them based on old school pre Sabermetrics measures

I don’t even care if they come clean

For the dipshit hot takers, I repeat:

Absolutely — and there are vicious assholes in the Hall — but, like, I don’t get why as a society we’ve collectively decided to ignore that people are allowed to hate the fuck out of people who are assholes

If you think this is crazy, wait until I tell you what Fox *News* has completely ignored

Postscript: also Bonds and Clemens were famously *tremendous* assholes to *everybody*

Uh, this isn’t about some nefarious faceless conspiracy of 90 year old implied baseball writers. The critical impediment to these guys’ entry are the veterans, not the BBWA, which is in the process of its own generational shift. In a lot of cases it’s the guys Clemens or Bonds knew as veteran players in their early…

“Green doesn’t even have a good reason to be mad at Windhorst”

+111 vacated wins

Exactly, so this honorable death for your lord shit is ridiculous. Maybe you told your overlord that before you burned him to death in Honno-ji, but you sure didn’t believe it

...and Andy will despite the fact Clemens literally shot up Pettite’s ass with the shit

And mind you I like A-Rod

That’s regardless of David Ortiz’s “training regimen” — A-Rod I suspect will get in, despite the fact he almost certainly spent a solid number of years pumped up

Don’t be silly. David Ortiz is not considered a user by the guys who vote on this

Even as a Sox fan it kills me Ortiz will likely get in before Edgar

Washington State Cougars, brother

This press conference hit me in the feels with the force of eleven ferocious cougars

“NOW GO MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND RENT A LIMOUSINE.”

GOD DAMN IT MEN THIS IS NOT WHY I WATCH SOCCER