What about those drugs used by players in the past before testing even started? It has been contended that drugs of some form or another have been used by sport legends all along...



>>>>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.
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>Perhaps a new category should be in order. Records while on drugs. This way everybody would be happy. Purists would still have the records from the clean guys (or perhaps they could be called those not caught yet) and the mutants category.