Do Bonds records stand through 2001, when he ALLEGEDLY started?
If you want to take away Bonds records, what about everything touched by Canseco, Caminitti, Palmiero and all the other admitted users or those who failed a test?
2006-09-04 19:46:12 · 7 answers · asked by baseballfan 4 in Sports ➔ Baseball
you can't take him out of the record books because steroids were not against baseball's rules. get over it people. even before his alleged use, he was still one of the greatest players ever.
2006-09-04 22:25:59 · answer #1 · answered by the greg 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You don't "cut him out," like some Soviet non-person. You just mark all his records after 1999 with an asterisk and indicate that they were achieved with the use of performance-enhancing substances. Period. Same goes for Palmiero, McGwire, Canseco, Sosa, Caminiti, and anyone else found using.
With the mountain of evidence indicating that Bonds used, anyone who questions it is simply in denial or a fool.
2006-09-05 12:10:28 · answer #2 · answered by frozengrocer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The records stand. No asterisks, no nothing.
Have you noticed that this year, with supposedly nobody taking drugs, home runs and run production in general are up from last year, from the last 5 years? Care to guess why?
It's because way more pitchers were juicing than hitters. Drugs may add an extra few feet to a fly ball, turning a deep fly ball out into a home run maybe a few times in a season, but they also add an extra mile or two per hour to a pitcher's fastball. And that's a MUCH bigger difference.
I wish people would just shut up and enjoy what they're seeing instead of getting all bent out of shape.
Bonds is the greatest hitter of this generation.
2006-09-05 12:35:40 · answer #3 · answered by ratboy 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'd love to see Bonds and the other cheaters cut out of the record books, but that is not going to happen. The others you mention and probably quite a lot more were also cheaters who did not begin with as much natural talent as Bonds. Baseball is doing very little to stop this travesty of Bonds breaking the HR record of the great Hank Aaron. Baseball and baseball fans suffer because of this steroid scandal. It saddens me as a fan to see the cheater Bonds continue to close in on what may be the most hallowed of all the records in baseball.
2006-09-05 09:41:10 · answer #4 · answered by perdidobums 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
well, they would have to prove it first, like looking at pictures of him ten years ago is not proof enough. But, all that aside I don't believe that they will because of the simple fact that there are so many that might have used roids in the past few years. McGwire, Sammy, which means they would have to put an asterisk or something on all the records set past 2000 or even earlier. I don't believe that will happen, and hopefully Bonds' freakin knee blows out before he gets close to Aaron
2006-09-05 03:00:08 · answer #5 · answered by Brandon M 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That's why I don't think you can take his records out of the books. And, many of the banned substances were legal just a couple of years ago or so. It sucks because of his attitude and what he's done but I just don't think they can be taken out.
Hopefully Pujols or Arod will break his records in a few years anyway.
2006-09-05 09:06:13 · answer #6 · answered by shominyyuspa 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Don't forget McGuire too
2006-09-05 02:49:52 · answer #7 · answered by Brad I 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋