Will baseball league officials revoke his home run record and pretend it never happened? If not they should. A person who uses steroids, breaks the all time home run record, then gets convicted of steroids and gets to keep the home run record would be shameful.
2007-11-22 15:51:44 · 17 answers · asked by dwurfur007 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
He's not on trial for steroids, he's on trial for perjury.
They don't remove people's stats, or take records away for being convicted of a crime. So I'd say his records will definitely stand.
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2007-11-22 16:04:55 · answer #1 · answered by Kris 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
as hard as we all protect the home run record of Hank Aaron, Bonds didn't break any significant rules in baseball that would encourage baseball to take away stats.
He took steroids without a prescription which (apparently) may be a criminal crime, but baseball didn't outright ban them because they thought being against the law was enough.
The inditement however is for lying on the stand at the grand jury when he said he didn't knowingly take steroids. That's being challenged as a lie (ie, they will try to prove that he did in fact know that he was using steroids.
Baseball still doesn't have a solid policy on drugs, nor on the detection of drugs as they only test urine, not blood.
2007-11-22 16:29:46 · answer #2 · answered by brettj666 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hes on trial for perjury that he lied about not using roids. Even if found guilty you can't really take the reords away. You take out Bonds HR's the pitcherss who he hit them off them have to change wins are affected. Its a whole pandora's box. Besides Bonds isn't the only player who's on roids. A ton are. Still doesn't make this right.
2007-11-23 03:18:38 · answer #3 · answered by Jacoby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing, really.
The historical statistics are a record of what happened on the field, nothing more, nothing less. MLB has never seen fit to revise the stats except in supportable cases of clerical error or omission. Which is as it should be; editing for any other reason would only be to fulfill some agenda (of no doubt dubious merit), and that is never in history's best interests.
2007-11-22 17:17:05 · answer #4 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd love to see that happen but that just isn't realistic. I'm calling Hank Aaron the home-run king since he deserved it. We all should and I hope he gets that title back. But sadly they can't take away Bonds' record because that involves going back to all the pitchers who have faced him, and taking away their records against him and that is almost impossible. And I believe there is a rule against taking away records.
2007-11-23 02:51:36 · answer #5 · answered by St. Louis Cardinals Fan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someday some hacker will hack all the servers that contain Barry Bonds stats, and press the Del key. I know this is crazy talk, but think The Matrix, which has us.
2007-11-22 17:44:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
stfu about the damn asterisk
the whole era has an asterisk on it
everyone will remember, todays game is not the same as 50 years ago, it is continually evolving and everyone is suspect to steroids in these recent years, so live with it and take all the numbers with a grain of salt cause nobody knows who did what
2007-11-22 22:19:42 · answer #7 · answered by bourgoise_10o 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
extraordinary. The jury could agree that he obstructed justice yet could no longer agree that he lied. because the jury held on the different 3 counts, the U. S. criminal professional can re-indict Bonds on those 3 counts. i changed into fantastically confident that he could be acquitted. i did not see 12 huge followers from the city and county of San Francisco convicting him. could a style lengthy island county jury convict A Rod of similar prices?
2016-10-24 22:45:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think they will keep his records. Because the head of MLB doesn't have what it takes to make a move of removing records.
2007-11-23 11:18:44 · answer #9 · answered by Tommy R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they should rip the record out of the pages....
on trial for perjury....they also believe he KNEW what he took, they are trying to get his "butt buddy" greg anderson to talk, because he KNOWS about bonds abuse of hgh.
the guy is guilty as hell, (what ever that means) but never the less he is guilty!
2007-11-22 16:14:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋