Bonds and Rose, yeah. But Willie Mays? He was a childhood hero of mine. What has baseball, or anyone, got against him?
Willie got himself into trouble for getting a job in Atlantic City when the casinos opened there. He was a good will ambassador or something like that. Basically he met people at the front door to greet them. Rose as we know got busted for gambling. My point is that both these guys had their records in "limbo" for a while (Rose will eventually enter the hall of fame). But to me neither one of these guys ever did anything as bad as what Bonds has done. They were both great athletes.