Bulls69 wrote:Now since the Golden Boy has been caught red handed using riods where is the outrage Barry has been taken the last few years. I'm not some big Bonds fan but the public were calling for Bonds head.
Not really comparable. Bonds got busted and denied it even when 20 people threw him under the bus, then he went and lied to a grand jury under oath about the matter. ARod got busted and admitted the mistake and chalked it up to the fact that it was the culture of baseball where probably more than 50% of players were using.
Lets all be serious, guys like Clemens, Bonds, ARod, Sheffield, Palmeiro are the best players we have seen in this generation. Who knows who else used and hasn't been named yet? Or better yet, who has used but never got busted. Look at a guy like Vlad, who hits home runs to the opposite field off of balls that are at his ankles and now his body is breaking down. Or David Ortiz, who had some injuries then exploded into the best hitter in the AL only to have his body deteriorate now. Who knows, maybe there is a reason Mariano Rivera shows no signs of aging. We would be fools to give any player the benefit of the doubt at this point, many top players we have watched over the past decade has been connected to steroids, and who knows how many haven't been named yet.
That is why I don't think the whole steroids thing is a big deal. You can put an asterisk next to any record if you'd like, but steroids were NOT illegal at the time that these guys are accused of using. So to deny them anything is simply not fair, especially when MLB was the enabler here. I really don't lose much respect for any guy who used, because the amount of guys who did use is astronomical.
