Why no love for Kenny? He led the AL in stolen bases 5 years in a row, multiple time Gold Glover & All Star, and it’s odd hearing all about Bonds never declining, because Lofton never did either (but cleanly). In 2005, when he was in Philly, he was 38 and was hitting .335. When his career ended, he hit .296. Do I think he’s a HOF? Not really, but to see his name go off the ballot so quickly is a surprise.

@KenDavidoff Mad Dog is not impressed with your ballot. @MadDogUnleashed

@KenDavidoff Congrats you are one of 18 that voted for Lofton.

Didn’t realize your article was regarding MMO’s voting and not the full, official ballot, so I was floored when hearing Mike Francesa talking about the shutout. Thought the results were known and MLB was just waiting to make an official announcement.

I mentioned before that even though I think he is clean, Piazza and his generation brought this upon themselves. The players not involved either turned a blind eye to it, was indifferent one way or the other and through their Union didn’t want to stop a good thing going for them.

Everyone is to blame – the players, the managers, the owners and the Commissioner. They too turned a blind eye to it not wanting to stop a good thing for them too. Sandy Alderson being no different after testifying before that Senate Committee he was suspicious of Canseco, especially after seeing his body getting so much bigger one spring training. It’s a blot on all of them and they should be getting just as much heat as the players – actually more – because they could have at least tried stopping it themselves – internally without public fanfare. Citing that it was not banned from baseball is just hiding from the responsibility.

Based on my own experience, I believe the average fan had no knowledge of steroids or knew about the bigger head and shoe sizes. Saw the bigger muscles but thought that was due to new weight lifting exercises creating better fit professional athletes working year-round. When Canseco hit that monster shot in the 1988 ALCS at Skydome I just thought he was super strong. We were all fooled.

And for that, a blot on all of them too – the whole lot. And that includes those in the media who now condemn baseball and yet suspected it back then based on what they knew about drugs in sports and what was already occurring in other sports and didn’t pursue it, and that includes Mike Fancesa who said he had his suspicions too while during that time I did not hear him utter much about it.

https://twitter.com/MetsMerized/status/289106981145427968

LOL, I think he might stop following me.

man, this is going to piss off the businesses in Cooperstown, since induction weekend is a huge money maker for the area.

Only the 8th time this has ever happened. Wow.

Was it because Bonds was a HOF candidate to begin with or that all three were competiting against other juiced up players and so the playing field was equal? On the latter, I would then say nobody from that era should get in since what we were seeing was a juiced up game – not a real game.