Alex Rodriguez believes Barry Bonds and former New York Yankees teammate Roger Clemens deserve to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
“Look, I pray every day I get a chance to get in,” Rodriguez said. “The Hall of Fame is the ultimate place.
“If you think about Roger and Barry specifically … if you stopped their career at the age of 33 or 34, they were both first ballot and then the noise [about PEDs] started. For me, it’s just a shame. I am certainly cheering for both of them. I like them both very much. They’re both friends, and I’m in their corner.”
“I’ve taken the approach that I think talking about it is best,” Rodriguez said of taking PEDs, which he has admitted doing and, as a result, was suspended for the entire 2014 season. “I’ve made my mistakes, I’ve paid huge penalties.
“I would love to get in [to the Hall of Fame], but I understand that I made my own bed. So if I don’t make it to the Hall of Fame, I can live with that. I will be bummed, it would suck and I can’t believe that I put myself in this situation. But if that happens, I have no one to blame but myself.”
Somehow A-Rod has mostly remained unscathed from his PED use.
Would it shock me if he somehow got in?
No.
But first Clemens and Bonds will most likely have to get in, and we know that’s not happening anytime soon.
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