Talk:Barry Bonds's Place in Baseball's Pantheon/@comment-101784-20060316172543

He bet on baseball while he was managing. taht in no way affects the stats he accumulated as a player. Pete Rose was not going into the HOF as a coach, he was going in as a player. The same way that Ty Cobb who was an mean SOB isn&quot;t in the hall of fame because of his demeanor, but because of his numbers. You can&quot;t say the same thing about Bonds because for 8 years of his career he cheated to acquire his statistics.