Most people here would probably disagree but I’d but the roids people in as well. It seems silly not to have Bonds are Clemens in there. (Not to mention Pete Rose)
Bonds was or was at least close to a HOFer before he started juicing. And wasn’t Hank Aaron popping amphetamines? Old Babe Ruth wasn’t on taking anything but booze.
What’s your opinion of that guy that gave his HOF vote to deadspin? They stripped him of his vote a couple days later.
Prior to 1999 (when Bonds’s detractors claim that Bonds started juicing, Barry Bonds already was the greatest LF of all time, ahead of Musial and Williams. He already was a slam-dunk HOFer
I think that too many writers take their responsibility too cavalierly, and that letting a website vote for you has to be punished. But a lifetime ban seems too much for a serious writer who did it as a protest against the voting process.