Should Barry Bonds Be In The Baseball Hall of Fame?

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Barry Bonds’ baseball achievements are staggering: from home run records to MVP awards to Gold Gloves to mind-boggling slugging and on-base percentages, the numbers place him squarely among the game’s all-time greats. But Bonds’ successes have been tarnished by what is known about his use of performance-enhancing drugs. For the last nine years, Bonds has been eligible for enshrinement in the Baseball Hall of Fame and each year, when the ballots are tallied, has come up short. Now he is in his final year on the writers’ ballot, making the issue of his worthiness for selection more urgent than ever before. Jeremy Schaap joins the show to ruminate on Bonds’ career: the stupendous feats of his youth; his relationship with managers, teammates and the media; his late-career performance surge; and the steroids controversy, all of which is chronicled in the new E60 special BONDS, which Schaap hosts this Sunday at 9:30 pm ET. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	They can take me down.
0:07.0	Who gives a f***?
0:10.0	I don't really care.
0:11.0	I never care.
0:13.0	Baseball and they want to take me down, go right ahead.
0:16.0	Take it.
0:17.0	Take all the shit you want.
0:18.0	You got this half of people that hate you.
0:21.6	Funny a boo.
0:25.3	And then you have this other half that roots for you.
0:27.7	I'm not, why should I let them down?
0:43.2	That was Barry Bonds. Back in 2006 2006 as he dared threaten baseball's most sacred milestone.
0:50.4	Hank Aaron's career home run record, a record that would have been the crowning achievement for any Hall of Famer.
0:55.8	But while Barry Bonds is many things, like arguably the greatest player of all time, he is not a Hall of Famer. But while Barry Bonds is many things, like arguably the greatest player of all time,
1:04.0	he is not a Hall of Famer. Still. So today, ahead of the E-60 documentary debuting this Sunday,
1:12.9	Jeremy Schab explains how and why Bonds remains on the outside looking in. And what that says about the rest of us?
1:21.9	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, November 5th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:31.2	Jeremy Schap, look, we know that there has been no hitter like Barry Bonds, right?
1:31.9	Like, we know this.
1:33.0	This is established fact.
1:38.5	73 home runs, the single season record, 762 career home runs.
1:41.9	Like, it doesn't look like anybody's going to touch those anytime soon.
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