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Halladay tweets Bonds, Clemens don't belong in Hall of Fame

Howard Smith / USA TODAY Sports / Reuters

Twitter rants condemning illicit drug use in sports have grown pretty tired in recent years, but Roy Halladay's recent remarks may be the exception. He is a doctor, after all.

Ahead of Wednesday's Hall of Fame announcement, Halladay - the former Cy Young award winner known affectionately as "Doc" - decried, from his personal Twitter account, ballplayers who used performance-enhancing drugs throughout their careers. Halladay, an eight-time All-Star, also intimated that neither Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens - neither of whom ever failed an MLB drug test - should be granted a plaque in Cooperstown.

Though Halladay remains adamant both players should be denied the sport's highest honor, voters aren't nearly as certain anymore. After failing to garner more than 37.6 percent of the vote in each of their first three years on the ballot, respectively, both Bonds and Clemens have received check marks on more than half the ballots made public thus far.

Halladay, who retired after the 2013 campaign, boasts a compelling case for Cooperstown himself, compiling a 3.38 ERA (131 ERA+) with a 3.58 strikeout-to-walk ratio and 65.2 WAR over parts of 16 MLB seasons. Presumably, though, he didn't learn from Clemens in the month they spent as teammates on the Toronto Blue Jays in September 1998.

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