Talk:Barry Bonds's Place in Baseball's Pantheon/@comment-101784-20060316100700

Cmon people! this is double standardville. You can&quot;t live in a vacuum. If what Pete Rose did AFTER he stopped playing can result in his being barred from the HOF than Barry Bonds CHEATING WHILE playing for 8 years has to result in his being barred from the Hall. In what screwed up world does betting on baseball when you are no longer playing hurt the integrity of the game more than cheating for half your career while playing? If Barry Bonds never cheated he would belong in the Hall of Fame. If Pete Rose never gambled he would be in the hall of fame. In my humble opinion, cheating while playing should result in an automatic ban from the Hall but "Charlie Hustle" who unlike Bonds earned every stat he accumulated, should be given a ticker-tape parade!