Baseball records are no more sacred than any other. And the people aren’t the ones holding baseball to any standard, the people have clearly demonstrated they don’t give a crap about steroids in sports. It’s the press that keeps the roid story alive, and then Congress got bored and made things scary for the MLB. That’s why the Mitchell report happened, to make Congress go away and shut the reporters up.
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.