Should Barry Bonds' obvious steroids-affected homeruns count?

Answer 1

To answer your question, Bonds home runs should not count however if he would just address the media and put an end to the mystery it might help clear things up.

I just don't understand why he doesn't confront his detractors. I can only surmise that he has something to hide.

Answer 2

Absolutely. Unfortunately, MLB had no steroid policy until I think the 2003 or 2004 baseball season. The only proof we have that he used steroids are his obvious size difference between 1998 and 2000 and word of mouth. Until he fails a test or some sort of other proof besides common sense is found, then the home runs should count. I am not a fan of Barry Bonds and I personally don't want him to break the record, but the home runs should definitely count

Answer 3

I think you are affected by steroids. This question is not the least bit intelligent. For the millionth time, there has never been any positive MLB or independent lab test showing Barry Bonds having taken steroids. Are these people just retarded or here on Yahoo to make us intelligent people irritated with nonsense questions?

Barry Bonds is innocent until proven guilty. Which country do you live in? Do we have a law where you are guilty until proven innocent? Completely backwards mentality.....

Answer 4

Should it count, probably not, but MLB dropped the ball because fans like home runs. So, in essence, it's our fault.

When we want home runs so bad, we reward teams that hit them, we reward teams when the sign players that do, we reward teams that sign those players to MAJOR money and we encourage players to take illegal measures to get the money.

It's OUR fault.

Now, that being said, Bonds was already a good hitter pre-steroids. In his prime, he was good for a .290 avg, 35-40 homers, 110-120 rbis, 120 runs and 30 SB.

Couple of things to note though especially for the crowd that says "he's never tested positive"
His suit to stop the SF Cronicle article was based on a leak grand jury testimony and NOT Libel.
If someone accused you of something in print that was not true, you slap a libel suit on them. You don't slap a suit on them that effectively says "shh, that was supposed to be a secret"
If Bonds did nothing wrong, his Balco buddy would have testified under oath and said "Bonds didn't take anything". Instead, he goes to jail, refusing to testify.

If/When he gets to 755 home runs, who cares. He is doing at a time when the average player hits out 20 in a year. That's the average. Even AROD, sans the roids, if he was to beat it, so what. It's not as big of a deal.

Aaron hit 755 home runs when people were hitting 12 (on average). Multiple that total by 66% (the % difference between now and then) then Hark Aaron has 1258 (Bonds Era) home runs.

That being said, Ruths 714 home runs at a time when players were hitting 4 even stands larger than that.
Ruth's mark is effectively 3570 home runs (compared to today). It's a mighty jump to imagine Babe Ruth out homering entire teams, something that would be impossible today (you would need to hit 230 homers a year for 16 years or so).

So, Bonds can break the 755, who cares. I don't. We are concentrating on the number alone and not the task it took to get that considering what the average joe was hitting.

Answer 5

Im so tired of this crap. Barry deserves it. Point 1, HE NEVER TESTED POSITEVE. yea he got bigger through his career, but so did Ozzie Smith and he only hit like 30 hr in his whole career. barry has been hitting 40+ since day one. Pt 2 the dude went to see a specialist on improving his eye muscles so he can react to the pitch even faster than before. Last but not least, guess what? even if he did take steroids, HE STILL HAS TO HIT THE @!#*^ BALL. Why do you think hitting is the hardest thing to do in professional sports. You take a round stick and hit a round ball coming at you 95 mph from 60 ft. And he mastered it, and will master it more than 756 times. Nonetheless, it was never proven that he used.

Answer 6

Steriods or not, how often will you see someone hit 700+ homers? not very many...maybe ARod even Pujols, but not many. Consider these points:
1. Other players have taken steriods / performance enhancers and still have not been able to hit 400, 500, even 600 homers. (Example: Jose Canseco didn't break 500, Mark McGwire didn't break 600 -- both I believe were still great players).
2. Steriods might help you hit the ball harder, but it doesn't help you hit the ball itself. You can take all the steriods you want, but if you can't make contact what's the point.
3. Steriods have been around in the US since the early 1900s (I think it was 1922 when they were discovered). What's to say no one else back in the day did them either.

So if he breaks the record he breaks it, fine. If he took steriods that's fine too. If they want to put an asterisk by his name, ok whatever do it. The point is if he breaks it, doesn't matter what he did to get there, he still broke it.

Answer 7

One of the things that should be noted is that Bonds isnt an island in the steriods issue.Once all facts come out, my personal wager is that some 50-60 percent of all ballplayers of that era had some form of performance enhancing assistance, whether steriods or growth hormones. That pretty much makes it an even playing field. Further such things as taking drugs isnt new. As far back as the 20s, ball players took drugs used to stimulate racehorses. Truly if your issue about preformance enhancing drugs is that it gives an unfair advantage, you are ignoring the simple fact that "cheating" of all sorts is commonplace in all sports.Specifically in baseball, pitchers and catchers doctor the baseball, batters take whatever allowances with the bat that they can or move up or back out of the batters box, often taking out the chalked box so they can cheat to get to the pitched ball better. Bottom line is this...Bonds didnt invent steriods and he didnt invent cheating in baseball. Any chance we can finally move on???

Answer 8

Yes. Because most of the records were probably made by a player on steroids. Most of them have at least done a cycle in their off season.

Answer 9

yes because just because u took the steroids doesnt mean that once ure a monster that u can automatically hit every ball out there is still a lot of skill in it just to make contact

Answer 10

Yes, his home runs should not count.