Let's face it, a lot of people now alive are going to need to die before Bonds and Clemens get in the HOF, including Bonds and Clemens. Pretty much everybody knows this, so the BBWAA realized it might be for the best to stop wasting everyone's time. Regardless of your position on Bonds and Clemens, you have to admit this is an elegant solution to make this problem go away without needing to ban these guys outright like Rose and Shoeless Joe.
It's kinda like when Kanye ran for president. That scared the crap out of people on all sides because everybody had to assume there was a chance he could actually win. But the answer there wasn't to try to campaign against him or otherwise treat him like a legitimate candidate. People just focused on enforcing rules to remove him from enough state ballots so he had no shot.
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