Canzano: Baseball Hall of Fame vote isn't a mess, it's a message
John Canzano, The Oregonian By John Canzano, The Oregonian on
January 09, 2013 at 6:37 PM, updated January 09, 2013 at 8:07 PM
bonds.jpg View full size Barry Bonds   On Wednesday, the
Baseball Writers Association of America apparently did what the
Mitchell Report, a series of congressional hearings, baseball
commissioner Bud Selig, a BALCO grand jury, and the United
States government could not accomplish.  It turned Barry Bonds
and Co. into sympathetic victims.  Bonds didn't get into the
Hall of Fame on his first ballot. In fact, none of the 37
eligible former players on the ballot received the necessary 75
percent to gain induction. Including good-guy slugger Dale
Murphy, who failed on his 15th ballot and wakes up knowing he's
no longer eligible and won't ever be voted in.  Still, many
cried out that Bonds deserved justice. Roger Clemens, Mark
McGwire and Sammy Sosa, too. As if the performance-enhancing
mess fostered by the Major League Baseba