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Saturday with sports yesterday, starting with the sports again today because the inductees into the baseball hall of fame are going to be announced later on.

And it seems as though the steroid era will still claim pretty much everybody, pretty much everybody who is remotely implemented in the use of performance enhancing drugs and quite frankly.

I love two minds of this thing because you sit there and go what should Barry bonds be inducted into the hall of fame.

Well, if you just look at his numbers, absolutely he should. But if you look at just look at pictures of him over his career, you know, there's something up with that guy.

There's something up with that dude. That's not a natural his head grew for God's sakes. That's not right. I remember when Barry bonds came up, he was.

He had all the tools to be all the famer. He was, you know, 20 to 25, maybe 30 home runs in his prime per year kind of guy, but he was easily a 300 hitter fast five tool guy.

And suddenly he just started blowing up with home runs. He was like, what the hell is going on here? Look at you Barry.

And then you think, well, in a second, he's trying, he's building a linebacker now. What the hell is going on?

And yeah, then the steroids came out and you thought, okay, there you go. Well, everybody kind of looks at that era as illegitimate.

So you can't really expect Barry bonds to get in Roger Clemens. Another sort of person who's been accused, he's denied it.

He's really not denying it for Barry bonds. But for Roger Clemens, he was one of the greatest pictures of all time early on in his career.

When he saw young first saw young, I think in his third year, no performance and dancing drugs then. So he, he had the tools then it's hard to say because he didn't suddenly become a strikeout ace.

He's always been a strikeout ace in his third year is the year that he struck out. I think he struck out 20 in one game.

So it wasn't like suddenly this guy who was an average picture just starts blowing everybody away. Whereas Barry bonds just blew up physically and statistically.

And so you sit there and you see all of these pieces being written. USA Today has won about how Barry not electing Barry bonds or Roger Clemens to the baseball Hall of Fame.

That's quite a precedent. ESPN is outraged at the prospect of Barry bonds isn't a Hall of Famer by the end of the day. It's a failure by the Hall of Fame.

Blah blah blah. You get it. It's all of these people. They want them in there. The statistics show that they should be in there.

But they cheated. They did cheat. There's no question that they cheated.

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