Bonds is almost certainly a juicer, but folks are just deluding themselves if they thing sports stars of the past avoided steroids because of higher moral standards or any love of the game. They didn't do it because they didn't know about them or they weren't available, but if you had offered the athletes of yesteryear better performance from a needle I'm guessing that most of them would have jumped at the chance to shoot up.
He was a freak.
Greater than Bonds, Mays, and Mantle combined.
Lesson over.
fakir.
It don't mean nuten.
Frick's asterisk is nowadays viewed as an error made out of his personal friendship with Ruth (Frick was the Babe's ghost writer) and the baseball world's reverence of the Bambino. Bud Selig, whose only significant accomplishment as commissioner is the realignment of the divisions and the Wild Card, would be a fool to duplicate Frick's biggest mistake.
Selig has revealed himself to be a Frickin' idiot in the past; only Bud would have declared a tie in an All-Star game. But he can't be a total moron, and he should be able to figure out that if he comes down on Bonds, the question will be where in the heck he was while all of Bonds'(and other players') juicing was going on. IMHO, any suspension for rules infractions by Bonds is a tacit admission that he fell down on the job, and should resign.
I have yet to hear or read of a credible or fair way to determine which home runs Bonds, Giambi, Caminiti, Palmeiro or Canseco may have hit that were a result of use of steroids. Certainly nobody is suggesting that there have been any tainted homers in Bonds' past three seasons under mandatory random testing. Besides, singling Bonds out among all known juiced players is unfair not only to Bonds, it is congenitally unjust.
For better or for worse, unless something season-ending happens to Bonds very soon, he will be second on the all-time list when this season is over. He may be under indictment or he may be suspended, but he will be second only to Hank Aaron.
Looks like Baseball is not going to do a thing about this. What a pathetic Commissioner! A weak, jelly-spined, risk-averse place-holder.
barry bonds WHO?....
Hard to decide whether to cheer the gigantic and awesome home run hit, or boo the guy who hit it.
As far as I am concerned his and all hte others who are proven to take steroids should have their record removed from the books.
Where can I buy a Barry Bonds bar?
This means more as far as ranking power hitters for pure power.
At Bats per HR
1. Mark McGwire 10.61 R
2. Babe Ruth 11.76 L
3. Barry Bonds 12.91 L
4. Jim Thome 13.77 L
5. Manny Ramirez 14.08 R
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34. Hank Aaron 16.38 R
Interestingly, No. 33 is Jim Gentile. He is not even in the Hall of Fame. Hank Aaron was a great player and hitter with a really long, 23 season career. McGwire* and Bonds* don't count. Ruth in the greatest power hitter.