At the entrance of National Baseball Hall of Fame The plaque gallery, with hanging signs, helps visitors to the museum to show what they’re about to see. The first paragraph describes how the player is in the hall for “game outcomes.” The next paragraph states that other areas of the museum “cover the entire career of them.” The last paragraph connects it all together. “The mission of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Museum is to preserve history. This is what we are aiming for throughout the museum.”
If it is Hall’s mission, it is a terrible mistake today. Barry BondsArguably the biggest batter in baseball history and arguably worthy of guidance, it’s almost certain that the writer’s vote will reach the 75% threshold in his final year. For the past nine years, at least one-third of baseball reporters arbitrating such issues have considered Bond’s use of performance-enhancing drugs to be disqualified, and Tuesday’s vote exposure could make another decision. Not expected. Not only him, but especially Bond’s refusal shows that after these decades, baseball still solves the problem of PED and appreciates the lazy and historic moral referendum on the preservation of history. I am.
It is difficult to identify the most frustrating ones. Perhaps it means that the player accused of using PED is already in the hall. Or, the term is enshrined by Bud Selig himself, a commissioner who covered the entire steroid era. Or, players of that generation before Bond, including various Hall of Fame, popped amphetamines as part of their pre-game routine.Or others who have been honored with bronze rendering include multiple racists, domestic violent people, and even last year’s players. Resigned from Hall’s board of directors After a woman has filed a credible allegation of sexual misconduct.
Really, it could be as easy as the one with the most home runs ever in a museum that exists to talk about baseball.
The campaign against Bond has been for decades, with fairness and logic dysfunction across multiple cohorts.
It begins with Major League Baseball and Serig, his office and game steward blind to PED. From there, the duplication of riding a wave of steroids to the new stadium and the abuse of those who fueled it led to greater television trading and exponential revenue growth. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, and everyone else pulled before Congress made a great scapegoat, but the league’s treatment of Bond went far beyond that. Serig noticed that Bond broke the prominent Henry Aaron’s home run record. Everything except with an asterisk Next to Bond’s final total of 762 and single season record 73. Since the 2007 season, Bond has been one of the best hitters on the planet at the age of 43, with no team offering a deal. It was clearly something, even though the arbitrator decided it was not a collusion. Baseball tells Bond that he wasn’t welcomed.
The message was transmitted to Cooperstown that same year, with McGwire’s candidacy forcing him to consider questions that would dominate the Hall of Fame for the next 15 years. Do voters respect PED users? There was confusion among the writers who decided to do that. What did Hall want? The agency does not lobby for or against players, but could have provided some guidance to players using PED. Did the so-called “character clause”, which tells voters in the hall to consider the player’s “character” as one of the six attributes when considering value, apply to the use of PED? Or do writers need to take into account that these players were in an environment where fraud was very prevalent?
It was the moment Hall was able to accept and take the right position-just as this history is ugly, not telling its complete story is to whiten this important moment in the game. Become. Instead, Hall abandoned its leadership mission and punted. “We’re telling the story of the steroid era, just as we’re telling the story of every era of baseball, and telling the story with that simple truth,” said Hall’s longtime president ten years later. One Jane Forbes Clark said. In 2017. “And that’s how the museum deals with it.”
The simple truth is that it’s Barry Bonds teeth The story of the steroid era. He is a player with unlimited physical talent, and his desire for something beyond greatness has taken him to places where he doesn’t have to go. His desires reflected the desires of the league: bigger, better, more constant pursuit. This is a history that demands to be told, and there is no better place to talk than the Hall of Fame plaque room.
Do not run away from it or deny it. This is not the case with museums. Still, the writer who wanted to clarify how to handle PED users came in from the hall, which is the closest to what he has ever obtained. November 2017 email Written by Joe Morgan and blown up by voters by Hall. After reading the subject “The Hall of Fame is special,” Morgan spit out over 1,000 words of anti-PED propaganda. “Steroid users don’t belong here,” Morgan wrote, but they knew they were already there.
Six years earlier, when Bond had won 36.2% of the votes, Clark said, “I think the writer is doing a very good job.” At the time of Morgan’s email, that number jumped to 53.8%, and the threat of him and Roger Clemens making holes was beginning to feel that it could probably happen.
The Baseball Writers’ Association of America has guaranteed that it will not be monitored. Even if support jumped to 61.8% in 2021, nearly two out of five writers who voted presented Bond to him, not the scariest batter he’s ever seen, by League and Hall. I saw it like this. Awkward yuck-yuck juice.
You should be able to admit that Bonds is a scammer, lament his actions, and convincingly claim that he belongs to Cooperstown anyway. Even those who take the Hall of Fame seriously and believe that they are protecting the Hall of Fame by excluding the bonds that protect it can be complex, disappointing, and sad about the museum’s mission, history. You have an obligation to admit that.
Playing with history is a dangerous game, especially coming from a group commissioned to write it. But that’s what the BBWAA does if it fails to elect Bond today, and that … will hold Hall accountable. In December, we will convene a committee of today’s game era, playing from 1988 to 2017 and tasked with voting for those overlooked by writers. This group of 16 voters, consisting of Hall of Fame, executives, and media members, voted for Serig to take office in 2017, and two years later, no Hall of Fame number but enough friends on the committee. I chose Harold Baines. In Cooperstown.
If Morgan’s letter is any sign, his candidacy is dead on arrival, but the bond should be on the ballot. Getting 12 out of 16 votes from the Commission of the Times is difficult enough without becoming a Cause Celebrity. His name remains in the vote-and his fate is in the hands of today’s Game Rating Committee-infinitely.
We can spend all our time around the world hoping that it was a journey of heroes, not so complicated, simple, black and white. It doesn’t always happen. After all these decades, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose remain Paria. Also, thanks to Bonds, Clemens, and Curt Schilling, Hall hasn’t invited three more. The former two use PED and the latter say bad things.
Unlike Jackson and Rose, bonds are not banned. Anyone who looks at the whole process and finds it abominable can continue to confuse Bond. This suggests that instructing the history of baseball to essentially ignore those who are essential to its mission is not in the best interests of the museum. All this time, Clark was right: the simple truth is clear.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame needs to introduce Barry Bonds. There are so many simple solutions. It recognizes that it is possible to meet the hall’s mission and celebrate the player’s bond while lamenting the choices made by the bond. All you need is the correct word on the plaque. And since the hall isn’t open this year, it seemed like a good time to crack.
Barry Bonds
Pittsburgh NL, San Francisco NL, 1986-2007
With 762 baseball home base hitters, he has won seven MVP awards and has walked more than any other player in history. With a terrifying left-handed swing, he set a single-season home run record at 73 and redefined the blow of the generation. The use of performance-enhancing drugs has confused outcomes and symbolized the steroid era of MLB. Heroes and villains at the same time had an unusual combination of power and speed that helped them lead the NL 10 times in on-base percentage, which was even better visually.
That’s Barry Bonds, and that’s how you save history.
