So you don't care that one more of our traditions goes in the toilet? You don't care that we send the message to our kids that it's ok to cheat? I don't know about you, and mabey I'm hopelessly naive but I'm tired of having to watch our kids grow up long before they have too, I'm tired of watching everything that was once good go to crap because hell, if it feels good, do it. If it only hurts me, so what. The Libratarian/Liberal/Communist/Socialist/Progresive ideal does hurt people other than yourself. It corrupt society as a whole. I hope Bonds ends up in prison with a big fat white new boyfriend named Bubba!!!
Prison? What he did was stupid but not illegal. Heck, it wasn't even agains the rules of baseball until last season.
what tradition? the game of baseball has been constantly changing since it was invented. moving the mound up, moving it back down, changing how the balls are wound, changing rules about bats, re-centering the strike zone. and those are just the small changes.
as a whole, professional baseball has become a whole different entity, where contracts come before quality of play. this is not inherently wrong, this is how every major venue of entertainment is. albums are not rated on their quality but on their sales. movies not by their merits but by their grosses. ballplayers not by their skill but by their salary.
keeping steroids out of the professional league isn't going to change any of this and bring back an older form of the game and make people stop paying to see names instead of games.