Opinion: David Ortiz's Hall of Fame election muddles argument for Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens

Well, after arguing, screaming and publicly shaming one another these past 10 years on baseball’s great debate whether Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens deserve to be elected into the Hall of Fame, leave it to David Ortiz to muddle the argument.

Ortiz became the first baseball player in history Tuesday to test positive for performance enhancing drugs in his career, and still be elected into the Hall of Fame, receiving 77.9% of the vote in his first year on the ballot.

Sure, Ortiz’s drug test was supposed to remain anonymous in 2003, just like the 103 other positive tests.

Maybe it was a false positive.

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