When Barry Bonds breaks the MLB HR record, (and he will), there will be no reason for fans to cheer, this is the official moment when Baseball becomes completely tainted. The most hallowed record in all of sports has been assaulted for years by many steroid abusing sluggers, but only one has been so arrogant, so disrespectful to the game, and as successful as one Barry Bonds.
Before the juice, he was a great player, balanced in his game and explosive, yet he didnt get the accolades and glory of some of his consitituents, so he turned to the juice, like many others, and started hitting them OUUUT!....all the time. In recent times, the lid of the steroid society within MLB has been exposed and a ton of evidence has been leaked (if the leaking was legal or not is not important to the facts of the facts) implicating that Bonds was a serial juicer, **** bent on breaking the HR records of the sport and being THE BEST, not just one of the best.
In his selfish, drug fueled assault on the record books, he has ruined what records are all about, a signal of one's hard work and achievement that one earned through hard work and natural ability. When Bonds juiced, it was the equivalent of using a cheat code on a video game. Sure, you beat the game, but you didnt really...you cheated...it was made easier for you. You are not THAT good. You are just a cheater.
When Bonds breaks the records, it will be official that the records of Baseball are asterix ridden and worthless. Its a darn shame
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Spoken like a true A's fan. Never mind that cheating took root in the bathroom stalls in Oakland Coliseum. Never mind that Bonds is one piece of an obscenely huge HGH puzzle that afflicted MLB for almost a decade. Do you put an asterisk next to the pitchers Bonds faced? Before throwing around asterisks, be prepared to take down the game along with Bonds. In short, move on. The players and MLB have.
Keith Larson
Los Gatos, CA
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All those things you say are true, steroids was endemic to the entire league, and there really is no way to tell...not to mention my beloved A's started it off...but thats not the point!! To simply 'move on' is the mind set that brought on the whole epidemic. The players and ESPECIALLY the MLB didnt care about the integrity of the game enough to crack down on it and its marshmellow soft policy was laughable. Now after a decade, and congressional hearings, the damage is so thorough that all it had left was 755. The single season record was tainted by McGwire and Sosa, and then Barry....but after this final wall comes down, the taint is complete. How can we be excited about that, when we know he juiced, not only juiced, but had some real high tech steroids that the world is just learning about.
However, it is a winless arguement, being that their is no solution. You cant strike his stats or anyone elses from the record and there is no way to assess the impact....but it doesnt change the fact that it will be a sad day for us baseball purists
TheChampOfSportsTalk…
The Bay Area, CA
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Barry's "high tech" enhancers Bonds took were hardly exclusive as they were derived from steroids developed almost seven decades ago. Now, with the bust that took place back east that ensnared Gary Matthews, Jr.'s name, it looks like HGH product is probably more prevalent than we can imagine.
I love the game just as much as the guy who says he loves it the most, but "purity" has always been a relative term when it comes to baseball. It's steeped in tradition but it has its more than fair share of skeletons in the closet and many, many black eyes. In short, I say that if Bonds is villified, then you have to go after everyone else too. Bonds is an easy and HUGE target because he's p'd off so many.
Keith Larson
Los Gatos, CA
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Bonds is the reason ALL SPORTS need to increase the frequency--and spectrum--of performance enhancing drugs. Who cares about the other hundreds of players caught using steroids (anyone remember that CF for the Tigers, Alex something?). The problem w/ Bonds is that he already WAS one of the games best players BEFORE he started allegedly using steroids. The combination of those two means records will be broken.
I agree completely with KL regarding baseball's "purity." Should Pete Rose's record be taken away because he gambled on baseball as a manager?
Lastly, to the A's fan... all I have to say is "MARCO SCU-TA-RO!" Are you prepared to ghostride your car to protest a possible move to Freemont? Real A's fans are: http://youtube.com/watch?v=SlTvSUCCqPo
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