The slow, excruciating bleeding out of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens' candidacies for the National Baseball Hall of Fame continued Tuesday. It is the personification of death by paper cut. For three more years, Bonds and Clemens will see a majority of voters consider them worthy of induction into Cooperstown. And for three more years, arguably the greatest hitter ever to play baseball and the most decorated pitcher in the game's history will fall short of the 75 percent threshold for induction.
Why Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens aren't getting into the Hall of Fame
