Barry Bonds doesn’t deserve to bear all the weight of scrutiny and sanctions for steroid abuse in pro baseball. The long-awaited Mitchell report on steroid use among Major League Baseball players released Thursday named plenty of other big-name stars, most notably pitching legend Roger Clemens, whose mound performance showed "remarkable improvement" after he used the drug, according to the report.
That’s why steroids hurt — they work. Players who go by the rules rightly feel that doped athletes have an unfair advantage.
As the report shows, Bonds had plenty of company. Maybe the entire Steroids Era in baseball deserves an asterisk.
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It’s really sad when the American public is more outraged about professional baseball players breaking rules than their elected officials in high government offices.
We’ve got more attention and investigation into this than into the Bush Administration.
Are you kidding? The only thing that the Democratic congress has done is investigate the Bush administration!
Gone is prayer in schools, “In God we trust on our money”, it’s no wonder you see what you see. Lack of foundation and lack of Moral compass.
I played baseball growing up and some of those days, wished I had some uppers or juice in my veins to pitch harder and jack the ball over the fence better. I got tired pitching in practices and the games. I rarely hit home runs.
Home runs were rarely hit off of me!
Kids get hooked on chewing tobacco at early age and look how that nicotine kick makes them jumpy and excitable if the nasty spit didn’t make them sick.
I was on a team, player was prompted to get some chew so he could play better at key innings!
That’s where it starts! MLB uses “greenies”. Some still chew in the big leagues.
Baseball should drug test, but what happened in the past,let it go without punishment.
MLB needed Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa home run derby battle.
Everyone looked at both overly muscled players to see how they did it. We witnessed how their bodies broke down. McGuire did during a season and Sammy Sosa lost it by needing a corked bat that exploded on him.
There is Barry Bonds and Roger Clemons, both with 7 awards calling them the Best Hitter and Pitcher.
Hall of Fame worthy, you bet!
MLB can say a time period existed where performance enhancing drugs were used on a wide scale. Records should be considered accordingly.
That’s it, but let these players who achieved over a long period time into the Hall of Fame.
Brady Anderson, former Baltimore Oriole outfielder went from 20 homers a season to 50!
Some claimed juiced ball, that could have been true. It was Brady Anderson on juice more truth!
That kind of one year explosion isn’t Hall of Fame worthy. Some MVP one year wonders can be suspect if they never did it again.
Multiple MVP’S, there is evidence that player has achieved over a longer period of time, may have had some pharmaceutical help.
Bonds and Clemons with 7 each, they belong in the Hall of Fame.
Should go to the Hall at the same time, since both shouldn’t play anymore.
George Mitchell is part of the Red Sox ownership and somehow todays Red Sox players didn’t get named.
Look at Manny Ramirez and Big Poppy!
A-Rod got a new contract with the Yankees that gives him $30 Million extra if ever catches Bonds Home Run record.
He isn’t going to do with his natural strength. Pitchers don’t walk A-Rod like Bonds, so he’s more chances to hit.
That’s what makes Bonds incredible at the plate. Not the Home Run power but the historical amount of walks given to him or he earned by staying off of pitches.
Steroids gives a person excitable tendencies. They aren’t used if someone wants to stay patient.
He’s earned his Hall of Fame regardless what happens in Federal Court, in a perjury trial.
Some want Bonds in jail, the best punishment I heard, Bonds should pick of trash! That would be something. The Home Run King ordered to public trash duty!
If he’s in jail, some will think he was persecuted for sins of Steroid Era alone. It seems that way right now.
Owners knew these players were on drugs and they profited!
My dad was a big baseball fan. He would have liked this ruling.
I think anyone who has set a record while using steroids should have that record taken away.
Some of those who live a chemically altered life disagree!
Rush Limbaugh compared using steroids to using contact lenses!
Obama can have an asterisk by his name, if he is elected President.
President Barrack Obama*
*Peformance impacted by admitted Cocaine use. American drug culture voted for him anyway!
I don’t know how anyone could penalize players unless you have a positive drug test. But baseball wasn’t testing.
You sure can’t consider the story of a trainer facing criminal charges himself as proof. Not without a lot of corroborating evidence.
I think that baseball needs to just admit they did a lousy job of policing itself, make the necessary changes so it doesn’t happen again, and get this mess behind it.
Gone is prayer in schools, “In God we trust on our money”, it’s no wonder you see what you see. Lack of foundation and lack of Moral compass.
Posted by: RS |
Yes, indeed.
If only we had prayer in the schools, we wouldn’t have doping scandals in sports.
There’s a direct cause-and-effect relationship.
For instance, back when we DID have prayer in the school, you never saw anything like in the 1919 World Series “Say It Ain’t So, Joe” game-fixing scandal, right?
Hey, wait a minute . . .
I hate that…I know Roger Clemens name. I know someone with last name Clemons and dealt with him recently.
Max,
Cocaine was big in the 80’s and plenty likely voted for Reagan!
He had to be on pharmaceuticals sending Rumsfeld to shake hands with Saddam. That directive came from a sane President? Reagan had to be taking a lot of pills recovering from being shot.
Since that handshake I imagine, Trillions of dollars have been spent in Iraq to help Saddam, then the search to get him. That Mission Accomplished war still rages on expensively.
Can’t forget W. was a partial owner of the Texas Rangers. Got that money from his failed oil company called Arbusto, his business partner was Osama Bin Ladens older brother.
Sammy Sosa was drafted by the Texas Rangers, he started on his roids regimen then.
Sammy was back with the Texas Rangers recently reliving those old steroid days memories.
Sammy and his corked bat. Rick Reilly, a sports columnist, showed up in Chicago to take Sammy up on an offer.
Sosa was proud of his body and modeling, claimed he would pass a drug test at any time.
Rick Reilly showed up and said, let’s go test you Sammy!
Sammy no go, making wild gestures with his hands and getting upset, claimed something said in English screwed up his understanding.
He quit baseball to skip from being mandatory tested. He recently hit his 600th Home Run, so that should count.
Bush let Sosa into Major League Baseball.
Bush let Sosa into Major League Baseball.Posted by: Mrage | December 14, 2007 at 06:35 PM
So very profound Mrage.
It’s ok if the President of the United States of America is a drug user Mrage, as long as they have an asterisk (*) next to their name in the history books.
And if they press that little red button by mistake, the drug use will be an acceptable excuse for killing millions of human beings.
It was an accident.
Simple solution —- have 2 leagues —– a steroid league and a clean as a whistle league — let the steroid guys use aluminum bats — stadiums will have to be bigger —– but part of the score of the game is how many other players you can injure launching a baseball at them with a metal bat …. kind of like “the Gladiators ” of a few years back — make it a contact sport by allowing tackling of the base runners —- sweet —– maybe Wichita can get one of those teams ….
We cannot go back, we can only go forward.
Hopefully both the owners and the players union will heed Sen. Mitchell’s advice to go forward. An independent authority to do the testing, with HUGE FUTURE penalties.
Should the records that were set during the “steriods era” stand up over the test of time, they should be labeled as such. Many of the abuses were not against the rules at the time they were committed. It’s like giving me that ticket today for a DUI 30 years ago. Yes I did it, not proud of it, consider myself extremly lucky and have learned from it.
We have a lot to gain looking forward, and little by looking back.
Max – Why are you so concerned about Obama, when he is not even in the White House yet, and you don’t seem at all concerned about GWB, who is in the White House, and is a known cocaine user AND alcoholic? I am seriously curious, and would like a truthful, honest answer.