“Nip it in the bu**” Barry Bonds’ exclusion from Hall of Fame is at Baker’s wit’s end


“Nip it in the bu**” Barry Bonds’ exclusion from Hall of Fame is at Baker’s wit’s end

Dusty Baker and Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds is unquestionably one of the considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Bonds’ individual accolades include a record seven NL MVP awards and 12 Silver Slugger awards, along with 14 All-Star selections. Now with that profile who wouldn’t agree with the legend, Dusty Baker.

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Baker added his name to the list of people who find it hard to believe that Barry Bonds is not included in the baseball Hall of Fame. He managed Barry Bonds with the San Francisco Giants from 1993 through 2002. On Monday, Dusty Baker had a question put up to him by Monte Poole of NBC Sports Bay Area.

Monte Poole compared the situation where David Ortiz got inducted in his first year of eligibility but Barry Bonds went a decade without getting voted in.

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Barry Bonds deserves a place in Baseball Hall of Fame, Dusty Baker’s unyielding view

Dusty Baker and Barry Bonds
Dusty Baker and Barry Bonds

“Same way Jeff Kent didn’t get in,” Dusty Baker said. “Same way Pete Rose doesn’t get in. Same way Roger Clemens doesn’t get in. The voters (supposedly) like guys of high character, guys with no marks or any suspicions about their reputation—or maybe it’s how you treated the media.”

Dusty Baker even made a statement regarding how he feels that the MLB Hall of Fame voters are regional bias, “[MLB] is more partial to Boston and New York and the East Coast teams,” he added. “Whenever we go to the playoffs, we always have to see what New York or Boston is going to do before we can even determine what time we’re going to be on TV.”

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“I know,” Dusty Baker said of Ortiz’s enshrinement. “And I love Papi. But if you dig deep enough, everybody has something suspicious or something that they aren’t crazy about everybody knowing.

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He added, “There was none better than Barry. When you talk about the best of that era, people always want you to admit this or that. Well, Mark McGwire admitted and he’s not in. He should be in, too.”

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