Jeff Passan on Bonds, Clemens, and the Most Controversial HOF Ballot Ever

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday, the Baseball Hall of Fame will announce the results of what may be the most controversial ballot in Cooperstown history. It’s not only the final year players like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, and Curt Schilling can appear on the writers’ ballot, but also the first year David Ortiz and Alex Rodriguez are eligible. So our baseball insider Jeff Passan walks us through the process of HOF voting and what’s at stake. He also explains why he chose to give us his own Hall of Fame vote, and how he thinks Cooperstown should tell the history of baseball’s PED era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.
0:07.9	It's not just any haircut.
0:09.9	It's super cuts.
0:14.1	Deals.
0:15.4	And bonds.
0:16.2	Hips right high.
0:17.7	It's indeed.
0:19.5	It is out of here!
0:23.9	7.56.
0:27.2	Five stands alone.
0:34.7	There is no sport more obsessed with its past than Major League Baseball, and there is no institution that embodies that tortured relationship more than its Hall of Fame, a building that is both a temple of history, and in the case of Barry Bonds, the all-time home run king, a fortress against it.
0:55.0	So today, as we await the final verdict on whether Bonds and Roger Clemens will be Hall of Famers,
1:02.0	Jeff Passen explains who should be allowed through those pearly gates,
1:07.0	how to deal with character clauses and performance-enhancing drugs, and how to save Cooperstown from itself.
1:16.5	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, January 25th.
1:20.9	This is ESPN Daily.
1:35.7	So Jeff Passon, I want to jump right into this with you because it's 6 p.m. today, Tuesday.
1:43.6	We get something approaching resolution to the most heavily debated Hall of Fame vote.
1:45.3	We've ever seen, right?
1:46.2	Is this close to you?
1:49.4	We're talking about the class of 2022, the inductees on the table.
1:51.5	Tell us what's at stake here.
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