Barry Bonds says he 'belongs' in Cooperstown: 'Why is the Hall of Fame punishing me?'

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Barry Bonds' name appeared on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for 10 years, and he has not been inducted.

Players like Roger Clemens and Curt Schilling are at peace with not being in despite their numbers being worthy.  MLB's home run king is clearly bothered by his fate.

Bonds' numbers are all linked to performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds admitted to using BALCO "cream" but has consistently claimed he never took steroids or failed a drug test.

Those claims were also the subject of an investigation that ended with Bonds convicted of obstructing justice in 2011, stemming from the BALCO investigation and his grand jury testimony in 2003. However, that ruling was overturned four years later.

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Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits career home run No. 756 against Mike Bacsik of the Washington Nationals Aug. 7, 2007, at AT&T Park in San Francisco. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images)

Given that he is now not guilty of a crime, and he says he never failed any MLB drug tests, Bonds hinted that writers who voted him as the NL MVP seven times during his playing career made a mistake.

"People have to understand something is that the fact is that I was vindicated," Bonds said on the first episode of BLeav's "Hollywood Swingin'" with Stephen Bishop and Jerry Hairston Jr. "I went to the court. I was in federal court, and I won my case. One hundred percent. Where is the vindication of me in my own sport? That’s what bothers me."

But after the legal talk, Bonds said his numbers speak for themselves, and the writers unfairly punished him and players who have been suspended in the sport.

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