I wanted to know if his record should be stripped to sometime he was not on steroids or performance enhancers.
2007-12-14 03:49:49 · 13 answers · asked by powxmansal 3 in Sports ➔ Baseball
No... How can we tell how many homers he would have hit without steroids? It's impossible to say. It's all speculation.
2007-12-14 03:52:50 · answer #1 · answered by Reduviidae 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, Barry Bonds wouldn't have achieved that kind of home run total without the juice. Look at Babe or any of those guys back in the day, they hit that many homeruns with even less games in a season, where Bonds did it with more and the juice.... I've played baseball since I was a little kid and I can honestly say that Im ashamed of the sport right now.
2007-12-14 04:22:51 · answer #2 · answered by Aaron K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any athlete that cheats should have their records stripped, not just Barry Bonds. It happened to Marion Jones.
2007-12-14 04:18:00 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Baseball is a cyclical culture. Baseball also reflects American society at large. We presently live in a selfish, greedy, arrogant and dishonest society (much like we did following WWI when the White Sox threw the world series for greed, self-regard and other selfish motives as Charlie Comisky treated them like lesser humans out of greed, self-regard and self-importance). Barry Bonds, representing his era through Baseball as Jackie Robinson did at the start of the Civil Rights era and Babe Ruth did for the roaring, self-destructive 1920s, is much more than anything so petty as a 'cheater'. He is the greatest player from the 'Steroid Era'. Thus, having broken records he has, like his precursors before him, broken with the past regularities of the game (Ruth played in a segregated era of widespread gangsterism and Robinson played in a turbulent, violent time when many people resisted any change to the known small world(s) they existed within). Thus, Barry Bonds is where we are as a nation for better or for worse. He is an icon of our era of decline.
2007-12-14 04:03:54 · answer #4 · answered by asphlex 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
No, before Bonds ever took steroids his name was in the record books. Although he took roids they dont help you hit the ball, just hit it a lil further. Hitting a 90mph cound ball with round bat is still the hardest thing to do in all sports.
2007-12-16 17:55:18 · answer #5 · answered by collegeprep4ncaa 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, because he broke an MLB rule, regardless of whether the steroids helped him hit more home-runs or not.
If you go to take the SAT's and they don't allow graphing calculators... and you bring in a graphing calculator (regardless of whether it helps you or not) you broke their rule, and if you get caught they'll revoke your SAT score.
So why should MLB players get away it?
However, as long as a player discontinued use when steroids became illegal, then his record should remain.
2007-12-14 04:29:50 · answer #6 · answered by conventional 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes and Mark McGuire and the rest of the cheaters.Hank Aaron was a great ballplayer and achieved what he did on his own talents without the use of drugs.
2007-12-14 04:02:37 · answer #7 · answered by Henry B 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, because that would have an impact on all the games that he played. Also he got some of his home runs legitimatly. Whose to say exactly when he started juicing that it helped his game? Sure roids or whatever the hell he wass taking helped him, still how exactly can you know when to stop counting?
2007-12-14 04:02:03 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. The man is a cheater. Why reward cheating.
2007-12-14 03:54:33 · answer #9 · answered by †Lawrence R† 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
YES!! Definitly.
2007-12-14 04:17:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋