Personally, I say just let all the armchair has beens and never weres both in the media and on this thread take their potshots. Those of us fortunate enough to have watched Bonds over the last 20 + years (including high school) know that whether you like him or not, whether he used illegal substances in the last several years or not, know we've been watching something special. If he was crazy enough to use things that would enhance his performance and possibly hurt him later, he's really only hurt himself. The enhancers don't explain the quick wrists, the pitch selection and the awesome swing. They may have helped him swing a bit harder, and hit the ball a bit farther, but they didn't make him a star. He was already a star before any charges were made, and there was any indication of steroid use.
All the know it alls who think they should control whether he goes into the hall of fame, or has an asterick in the record books are free to make their comments and spew their statistics, but in the end, Barry is still one of the greatest ballplayers fo all time. Get over it!
Drugs may not explain talent but they certainly exploit talent. As was pointed out earlier, his numbers exploded when naturally they should have been falling. That effect did not come from all those years of practice.
I don't think anybody here would disagree that Barry is loaded with talent. However, his admittance to using performance enhancing drugs sheds a negative light on all of his accomplishments. That is actually kind of sad.
Anybody knowledgable knows that Bonds is talented.
They also know that he is tainted.