Why Barry Bonds Should Play In 2012
(http://www.balltribe.com) — The clock is ticking for the baseball Hall of Fame, about 11 months remaining now before the storm. The deepest class of players in decades will become eligible for Cooperstown, and this could get ugly. It won’t be pretty for newly-eligible candidates like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Sammy Sosa, all connected to steroids, the rally killer among the electorate Baseball Writers Association of America. And it doesn’t bode well, either, for holdovers like Edgar Martinez, Tim Raines, and Alan Trammell whose support could slip as more and more non-elected players glut the ballot. 96 days
