To ignore the historic accomplishments of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, for example, is hard to justify.
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Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, both appearing on the ballot for the first time, fell well short.
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W.A.A. as they will consider for election first time candidates Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza, Sammy Sosa, Craig Biggio and Curt Schilling.
This is being regarded as The Steroid Era ballot with good reason as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa are first-time eligibles.
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These two candidates are Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, respectively.
If sports fans nationwide could heap scorn on Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens for allegedly taking steroids, then a special place in sports hell should be reserved for Paterno.
Next year will be an extremely controversial one as Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, two of the best to ever play the game, will appear on the ballot for the first time.
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So having been negligent and then indecisive, how did Selig react when someone leaked supposedly confidential test results that in 2003 Alex Rodriguez used two no-no drugs (about which A-Rod--unlike Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens--immediately came clean)?
This latest steroid scandal comes a few weeks after it was revealed that former stars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were denied first-ballot entry into the MLB Hall of Fame due to links to steroid use.
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"This gathering of baseball's brightest stars will be an outstanding platform to grow the game internationally, " said Commissioner Bud Selig of a tournament that will in fact include such top names as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza.
We can do the "you know and I know they did" thing all day long, but neither Barry Bonds nor Roger Clemens was ever banned, suspended or disciplined by Major League Baseball for being a steroids cheat.
If a voter were to cast his ballot based upon outright statistics and awards (without names attached to those statistics), there is no doubt that Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens would be voted in to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
Unlike the Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens case, in which both baseball stars testified before a federal grand jury and Congress and were accused of lying under oath, Armstrong was not questioned by federal authorities under oath, and therefore was not exposed to potential criminal perjury charges in the Los Angeles case, the source said.
It was the era in which Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, and Roger Clemens were the marquee players in Major League Baseball.
But that is not so easy for athletes who cheat, as we were reminded by last week's vote to exclude Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens from baseball's Hall of Fame, based almost exclusively on alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire and Jason Giambi fall into this tent.
Teixeira spoke out against PEDs when asked about the rejection of all candidates in this year's Hall of Fame vote, a group that included seven-time MVP Barry Bonds and seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens.
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