CSN: Some Hall of Famers applaud vote results

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If you're a Hall of Famer, odds are you agreed with the results of this year's Hall of Fame voting, in which no one on the ballot -- choked with stars of the Steroids Era -- was elected.

"Wow!" wrote Dennis Eckersley in a Tweet. "Baseball writers make a statement@Baseballhall. Feels right."

"Curt Schilling made a good point, everyone was guilty," Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt said in an email to The Associated Press. "Either you used PEDs, or you did nothing to stop their use. This generation got rich. Seems there was a price to pay."

And if you have an association with one of the snubbed nominees, well . . .

"It is unimaginable that the best player to ever play the game would not be a unanimous first-ballot selection," said Jeff Borris of the Beverly Hills Sports Council, Barry Bonds' longtime agent.

But commissioner Bud Selig doesn't think any long-term damage was done to the Hall, or the process, with this year's shutout.

"Next year, I think you'll have a rather large class and this year, for whatever reasons, you had a couple of guys come really close," Selig said at the owners' meetings in Paradise Valley, Ariz. "This is not to be voted to make sure that somebody gets in every year. It's to be voted on to make sure that they're deserving. I respect the writers as well as the Hall itself.

"This idea that this somehow diminishes the Hall of baseball is just ridiculous in my opinion."

Tags: Hall of Fame, Mike Schmidt, Boston Red Sox, Dennis Eckersley, halloffame010913

Source: http://www.csnne.com/baseball-boston-redsox/redsox-talk/Some-Hall-of-Famers-applaud-writers-vote?blockID=821743&feedID=10430

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