Should Barry Bonds go to jail and have the record revoked?

Question

I do believe that Barry needs to spend a long time in jail and pay a huge fine. He does not deserve to have the home run record. That title should go back to Hank Aaron, at least he did it honestly. Why people have been cheering for him lately I do not understand. I think he is a lier and a cheater and that goes to any athlete who uses performance enhancing drugs. If someone has to cheat to win they did not deserve anything but hardache and hard times.

Answer 1

Barry Bonds is a cheater in denial,he used steriods to help him get those homeruns.
I don't wish that he goes to jail but I do hope that the powers that be in baseball will take Barry Bonds' homeruns away that he knowingly cheated to get.
Hank Aaron made his homerun record the hard and fair way and it took a cheater and a liar to beat Hank Aaron's record.

Answer 2

no longer till he's convicted? The Chicago Black Sox have been banned for existence while they have been all acquitted in a court docket of regulation. They concept they have been unfastened and clean, returning to their careers as substantial league baseball gamers while the commissioner of baseball decreased the growth. i've got faith Kennisaw Mountain Landis even had in his speech, "even with the verdicts of juries......." except there is something interior the union settlement....etc. then in line with probability the commissioner remains empowered to do exactly that. it particularly is not in basic terms approximately doing away with the checklist yet approximately putting Barroid on the completely ineligible checklist, same through fact the Chicago Black Sox and Pete Rose.

Answer 3

If convicted, he should spend more time in prison than his trainer, Greg Anderson.
As for the record, I personally think the records should go back to Aaron (career), and Maris (season).
These things will be left to the commissioner. Someone referenced the 1919 Black Sox. There was a trial there, a verdict of not guilty, and the commissioner banned them.

Answer 4

If Bonds is found guilty, he should go to jail, I would if I did it... However, you can't take the record away (as much as I'd like to) because he accomplished the feat, tainted or not. Now, if you want to asterisk the record (and every record of the era) great.

This is a huge blackmark on baseball and the ramifications will hurt the game for several years to come.

Answer 5

Yes, yes. He needs to go to jail, and yes that home run record belongs to Hank Aaron.

Answer 6

He lied, so he should go to jail. The record should be ripped from the books and burned. In my opinion, the record is still held by Hank Arron.

Answer 7

Those are two different questions.

For the first, let's wait until there's a trial and conviction, or a bargain, okay? An indictment is not a conviction.

For the second, No. Revising established, recorded history without supporting evidence is never part of an honest agenda. What happened, happened. There also is no precedent within baseball history for such an action; the statistical database has been revised only in cases of proven clerical error or oversight. When MLB decides to toss out the 1919 World Series, we can talk about Bonds.

Maybe anything he hit off a steroid-powered pitcher should count double.

Answer 8

the record should definitely be revoked but he should not go to jail unless he is convicted of a crime.
What am I basing this on?
The Chicago Black Sox were permanently banned from baseball in spite of being acquitted in a court of law.

Answer 9

If he is found guilty, then he will likely go to jail. As for the record, my guess is that it will stand, and that is a shame. I say that because Pete Rose's records weren't struck from the record books, so most likely, Bonds' won't be, either.

Answer 10

YES YES YES.

Down with Barry.

Enjoy prison.