Do baseball players who have allegedly been roiding even care about the Hall of Fame? Do owners, commissioner Bud Selig and other image-managers care that they may not care?
The trial of Barry Bonds, along with Bud's denialism, shown by not naming Bonds by name in a comment about Bonds' trial, provide a good opening for that, which ESPN writers take on.
Jemele Hill says Bonds, Roger Clemens, Manny Ramirez and others probably didn't care then and don't care now. Money, competitiveness and ego were all factors.
Gene Wojciechowski pictures Bonds getting in after seven years of wait, and dropping a Bonds-ego-infused tirade of an induction speech on the crowd.
But, will he get in, even after a seven-year wait? If Bonds hurt his public image as much as Lester Munson says, maybe he won't.
Meanwhile, Jim Caple visualizes ManRam's HOF induction day, speech AND plaque.
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