From a March 2006 interview with Verducci
SI.com: Will you cast a vote for Bonds on your Hall of Fame ballot? Verducci: No. Not in any good conscience could I vote for someone who used performance -enhancing drugs for so many years. We're not going to have to vote on Bonds for at least five or six years, and I'm certainly open to any new information that is presented until then, but with the evidence we have now, there is no way I could vote for him. For those who argue that Bonds was a Hall of Fame-quality player before he started using drugs, I don't think in baseball you can build up a resume to a lofty point and then do anything you want to the game. Cheating the game is nothing that can be forgiven, whether it happens in your first year of baseball or your last year, like with Rafael Palmeiro. The 411 home runs, which is what Bonds had through 1998, don't give you carte blanche to do anything you want in baseball, including being a drug cheat.