You beat me to it, now let's see if baseball does anything about this. It's to bad that Hank Arron and Babe Ruth could be passed by people who do this kind of thing. I don't know how anyone can look at Barry Bonds and not realize the physical changes he has gone though and that they cannot be natural. Gator Bill
In some ways I blame the players union. Their members have to compete against and receive compensation based upon the performance of other players. If some are juicing themselves, the other players either have to to keep up or risk being penalized at the bargaining table. Those players that didn't want to use but stood by and let the jucie heads do their thing coiuld have done something but didn't. Baseball should really do something about records chemically enhanced. They had the gall to put an asterick next to Maris' figure but let these cheats get way without so much as a word. Just another reason why baseball sucks.
Don't worry guys, Barry's spin doctors (ESPN) will make him out to be a victim, You know the press picking on poor Barry because he doesn't kiss the their butts. Poor poor Barry. He just can't get any respect. PJ in Jersey
Wow! And I argued with those of you who accused players of doping. I thought I was in tune with reality, but apparently I'm naive, at least on this issue.
MLB has kept Pete Rose out of the HOF for things he did AFTER his playing days were over. How could they possibly allow this bum in? Ditto McGwire, Sosa and the guy who played 1B for the O's last year and got caught. Fair is fair...
:roll: Ban em all... In the first 120 years of baseball, only two guys hit over 60 HRs in a season and only one Negro League player (Josh Gibson) could have joined them. Suddenly...SEVERAL players were AVERAGING over 60 HRs per year at the same time... No human on planet Earth should be able to hit a baseball further than 567ft, so McGwire hit one that was measured at 580ft... Banjo hitters are routinely hitting 20 HRs per year leading off the order, while many players, including Bonds, do things at age 40+ that they couldn't do in their 20's or 30's... The evidence has been laying all over the place since the 1980's. Now baseball's chickens have come home to roost. I say ban em all, scrap all power records from 1985-2005 and begin a new statistical era... .............JO'Co
Unfortunately JO'Co you may be right about banning the records Like Sid I didn't want to admit it about some of the players, however it is so obvious with Bonds and what has happened to Sosa the last few years with further attention also seems obvious. Baseball has a real problem. Gator Bill
McGwire's testimony before Congress last year was the definitive moment for me. He said nothing yet he said everything. Steroids provide explosive power. I see it in the gym 3x a week. It's freaky power. It won't give a hitter a better eye but he will muscle out the less than perfect contact hits. The opposite field, end of the bat Hrs. The sky-high shots that the CF drifts back under , patting his glove, then watches carry over the fence.
Hey Redbird, I think this year the Astros will go ahead and play the first half of the season instead of running you down from behind!