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To: montag813
I would prefer:

Barry Bonds - *All records revoked.
23 posted on 10/31/2004 1:13:56 AM PDT by flashbunny (Every thought that enters my head requires its own vanity thread.)
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To: flashbunny
I would prefer: Barry Bonds - *All records revoked.

Never gonna happen. Pitchers Gaylord Perry and Don Sutton -- each of whom had a reputation for throwing illegal pitches and have been ejected from ball games for using foreign substances on a baseball -- are in the Hall of Fame, and no one questions their credentials or records.

(In fact, a few years back, a sportswriter discovered that the majority of the pitchers ejected for doctoring the ball in the previous decade had something in common -- they were each teammates of Sutton at one time in their careers.)

Until a drug test or a signed document proves that Bonds was illegally using performance enhancing drugs, his reputation among players will remain intact regardless of what pundits, writers, and fans think.

How can I say such a thing? Because Major League Baseball players voted Bonds the Player of the Year for this past season, in which he won his second consecutive batting title and set a record for bases on balls.

24 posted on 10/31/2004 1:37:29 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (FR got Rather and CBS. Drudge got Halperin and ABC. Be afraid, Tom Brokaw -- be very afraid.)
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