>>>Berry Bonds - The finest baseball player produced by chemistry!
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>>Tom,
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>>I agree. Barry Bonds is just another business man. The problem is that the "business" is entertainment. Fans love the home run. In fact, my first baseball hero was Hank Sauer. My second was Ernie Banks.
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>>However, there's one thing about baseball that this current "scandal" can't take way from what Bonds has accomplished. All the steriods in the world can't improve your eye/hand co-ordination. Can you hit the ball farther? Sure, but it doesn't matter if you can't hit it in the first place.
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>>(He who grew up with the kids of the players and coaches of the Chicago White Sox.)
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>Any HR records he has or attains will be severely tainted. I agree that his eye/hand coordination has ZIP to do with any doping he has done, but I can't help but believe that this doping did enhance his power and his HR production. He should receive a permanent ban from baseball because he does not deserve to pass Ruth and Aaron on the HR list. This is also far worse than any thing Pete Rose or Joe Jackson did to the game. At least they earned their HRs the old fashioned way. I also think his HRs from 2003 should be stricken from the record books.

Mark,

First of all, no court ever convicted Joe Jackson of throwing a game. In fact, if you look at the statistics he put up in the 1919 World Series, it's dubious that he did.

Second, before we all start getting sanctimonious about this, it is, after all, just entertainment. No more, no less.

Third, however, is Pete Rose. What he did, at the time was against the rules. What Bond's did, wasn't. It may have been against the law, but it wasn't against any policy that baseball had at the time.