The NEW YORK TIMES polls around 20% of the baseball media who vote for the baseball hall of fame, and finds Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds woefully short on the support they need to get to Cooperstown:

“In a survey of 90 veteran baseball writers who vote on player inductions, neither Bonds nor Clemens garnered the 75 percent that is required to gain entry into the Hall. Although this is only about a sixth of the writers who usually vote each year, it seems portentous for Bonds, the career home run leader with 762, and Clemens, who has 354 victories and a record seven Cy Young awards.

“Bonds received 53 votes, or 59 percent, while 28 writers said they would not vote for him and 9 were undecided. Clemens received less support, notching 50 votes, or 56 percent, while 27 writers voted against him and 13 were undecided. Writers were encouraged to give a definitive answer, with the understanding that future developments could change their opinions.”

We’re so glad Bud Selig has completely cleaned up the game we love, and is keeping out the only Hall of Fame potentials who were doing steroids.

Hey, it isn’t like the Mitchell Report was basically a high school sports manual about the dangers of steroids supplemented by two throwaway New York parasites out to save their own skin. And we’re sure that if you investigated baseball clubhouses outside the 212 you would not detect scant steroids or PEDs.