Somehow in the years since Mark McGwire’s disappearance, Bonds was viewed as the cheater — the one guy who shamed himself and the game. People talked about this keeping him out of the Hall of Fame, as if he were doing something that put him and him alone at an unfair advantage.

Well, writers of the BBWAWABA, now that excuse doesn’t work as well. If you keep Bonds out because of steroid use, there will be several straight years of an empty dais in Cooperstown. All of a sudden, he’s not alone; he’s among the half of all baseball players who did it.