The votes are all in, and the single inductee for this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame has been announced. David Ortiz finds himself lucky enough to enter the prestigious club in his first year on the ballot. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens find themselves left out and out of chances. The voters for the HOF have again decided to be petty and punish Bonds and Clemens for their sins.

I would have agreed with this pretentious mindset in my younger years, but as I get older, I realize that it’s nothing but a bunch of crap. It’s time for baseball fans to come back to reality and realize just how many players use or used to use PEDs. These men are competitive. They want to win. I don’t know why anyone thinks that steroids are above these players. Clemens and Bonds were fantastic players before the steroids, and they played their hearts out each day. Clemens was a beast on the mound, and Bonds was a monster at the plate. He always went out on that field every day. He played in the NL, and there was nobody to take his place out on the grass.

Ortiz was a designated hitter. He sat on the bench every half-inning and watched his teammates play defense. As a Yankee fan, I don’t particularly see him as charismatic, but I can put that aside and address the lack of playtime. Ortiz was also a prevalent player that steroids seemed rampant throughout the years. There have always been speculations about Ortiz’s use of PEDs, but he could enter the Hall of Fame for some reason.

It would have been nice to see two of the most prominent players from my childhood get voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. I can remember when Bonds was smashing away at those home runs, and while I was not a fan of him at the time, announcers would constantly talk about how he would be in that famed club of players one day. Today was saw that dream basically disappear for the man.