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Baseball fans react to Hall of Fame Shutout

No one was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame Wednesday for the first time since 1996. Homerun king Barry Bonds and pitcher Roger Clemens fell near the bottom of the list in achieving the 75 percent required to get in. Reaction from fans was strong and divided.

  1. 2013 Baseball HOF RESULTS (Craig Biggio: 68.2%, Roger Clemens: 37.6%, Barry Bonds: 36.2%) --> http://pic.twitter.com/shmORIA3
  2. BREAKING: @officialBBWAA elects no one to @BaseballHall for first time since 1996. #HOF
  3. Here's what Roger Clemens had to say.
  4. .@RogerClemens shared his thoughts regarding the HOF announcement: http://pic.twitter.com/DGPKZMn8
  5. Congrats to the HOF voters for pitching a shutout
  6. No one made the HOF today with a very impressive list. Message sent I guess, but this whole process of voting needs a revamp. I guess we are just expected to ignore the last 20 years of baseball.
  7.  Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens received the most publicity in advance of the Hall of Fame announcement, but some fans were upset that other players did not receive enough votes. 
  8. RT @ToledoNewsNow: JUST IN: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa denied entry to baseball's Hall of Fame. bit.ly/ZrDgFU http://pic.twitter.com/SLDrOQCb
  9. No one voted into HOF - the PED era is rejected. I would have voted for first timers Biggio & Piazza and Jack Morris & Tim Raines from previous years.
  10. Clemens and Bonds denied hall of fame! Thanks this made my day! Cheaters, don't deserve to be inducted into the hall of fame!!
  11. I understand why no one made the HOF...but Clemens got more votes than Bonds? Bonds will NEVER get in
  12. "Welcome to the modern Hall of Fame, everyone! Brought to you by drug users and baseball writers!" mlb.sbnation.com/2013/1/9/38556… via @sbnbaseball
  13. Lotsa complaints about baseball Hall of Fame vote. Mine: Jack Morris was best big-game pitcher of his time. What say you, @tonymanolatos?
  14. It's safe to say this is why Barry Bonds didn't make the HOF. http://pic.twitter.com/oXZQs8NI
  15. Baseball Homerun king Barry Bonds has his supporters
  16. I have no respect for the voters for baseballs hall of fame. Bonds is one of the greatest players to have ever played. If not him than who?
  17. I'm all for making guys like Bonds, McGwire & Sosa wait to get in the Hall of Fame but eventually they need to be let in. #MLB #HOF
  18. Bonds, Clemens, Sosa, and Craig Biggio all not elected to the hall of fame. I can understand Clemens, but bonds and Biggio? Really?
  19. Such a slap in the face to Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds not getting elected to the Hall of Fame. LOL

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Deborah Petersen

Social Media Editor & Columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and Bay Area News Group. Writer, recovering New Englander, news junkie, chronically restless, love Cape Cod, Silicon Valley.

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