That's ridiculous; you want to have the longest baseball threads on ESPN.com, just make the news article steroids-related and it'll jack up to 1000+ in a day. I never said the records were sacred, but I do think the public wants the competition to be on an even level, and steroids eviscerates that. If we took a poll of baseball fans and asked them what they consider to be the "real" record for home runs, who do you think they'd pick? I think you know as well as I do the answer would be Maris.
Not necessarily, I was on a baseball roid thread just a few months ago that never got past 50, some threads get huge and some don’t just like any other sports thread, just like any other thread really.
You said they were the only records people care about, same thing as sacred and 100% wrong. Baseball fans care about baseball records, non-baseball fans don’t care about baseball records. It’s just like any other sport in that regard, the fans care, the non-fans don’t.
Given the way this list has people in every position on the field it’s hard to say steroids eviscerated the level playing field when guys on both sides of plays were roided up.
Who cares what a poll says, the poll that matters is the gate, and the gate has gone up during the roid era and hasn’t gone down during the roid “scandal” part of the era. The fans don’t give a crap. Sure if you directly go out of your way to ask they’ll give you an opinion, that’s what people do, but the numbers that matter show the people don’t care. Roids haven’t made people stop attending the game, haven’t made people stop watching, haven’t made people stop spending money on the game. Which shows irrefutably that the fans are uninterested in the roid controversy. It’s a sideshow kept alive by a press corp desperate for things to talk about during a 162 game season.