USAToday

In a wide-ranging Twitter diatribe that touched on topics as disparate as Bruce Lee's martial-arts brilliance and Buck Showalter's managerial maneuvers, legendary rapper Chuck D. bemoaned the shutout pitched by Hall of Fame voters that kept Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens out of Cooperstown.

Chuck D., who fronts the socially conscious and musically groundbreaking Public Enemy that hit its apex in the late 1980s, also evoked the game's racist past that prevented integration until 1947. However, he feels players such as Cap Anson - who one biographer noted was "involved in the greatest number of reported negative incidents, on the field, relating to blacks" - should remain in the Hall.

Some highlights that Chuck D. shot out to his 186,000-plus followers:

Bonds was a game-changer: "Steroids or not Bonds was a rare dude a team would intentionally walk while bases were loaded. You can't name many in THAT category ?!?"

(Lest we forget, Showalter gave Bonds a bases-loaded IBB and lived to tell about it).

Bruce Lee has nothing on Bonds: "Bonds was impossible to pitch to. It was like trying to punch Bruce Lee"

Let Pete Rose in, too: "I'm also a BIG PeteRose FAN there's NO way the hit and HR (leaders) should be OUT of the HOF. The game was built on a cracker attitude.CapAnson"

Leave the racists in: "Landis.Cobb,Anson,Dykes,HarryWalkerStill no ones removing them nor should they.Those dudes were part of something that cheated everybody "

Babe Ruth was victimized by racism as well: "IN MLB players often called BabeRuth nigg*r because of his different caucasian features lips nose and his unsophisticated ...background"

PED use, late-career spikes were inevitable: "MLB players travel& lifestyle broke their bodies down around 32-33 up to 1960 Conditions&technique increased years they knew this was coming"

Clemens' perks worse than steroids: Clemens made more of a mockery with his convenience demands rather than Roids.

(And who ever thought we'd see the day Chuck D. and Kyle Farnsworth could be considered kindred spirits?)

Big-market teams suck: "The smashing of small market teams hurt Baseball more than Roids Angels getting Hamilton Pujois follows the criminality of TheSteinYANKS"

(Spoken like an artist who rocked a Pirates cap during the heart of his career).

Voters, please research: "if YOU dig something KNOW a great deal of its history, just dont freestyle s--- just because you dig it as a fan.Research some reasons why.."