Contemporary Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot 2026

lnchan · Nov 25, 2025

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Honestly I go back and forth on them. I think Bonds and Clemens belong, and ARod can go to hell. All 3 have personality issues, though I like Bonds (and I do love Rocket for his time in Houston). I do think you can play yourself out of the HOF sometimes, and that is what happened to Bonds and Clemens. If they retire in 1998, they are both beloved HOF players. Instead they decided to take PEDs and got caught.

I really despise ARod. He's such a phony person and known liar. Clemens lied obviously, but Clemens never came off as a fake person. ARod though pretends to be a good person, and he's just not. And with him, he was probably a great player before PEDs, but we know he was taking them in his mid-20s, so he built the vast majority of his career using them, possibly even from the beginning.

I think eventually they get in, but maybe after they die. Similarly with Pete dead, I expect him to get in. It is a way to remember what they meant to the sport, but not reward them for their misdeeds.
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Clemens is the Karl Malone of baseball. There I said it.

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