Baloney. Bonds WAS an excellent balllayer. He decided to forgo that to become an obsessive home run machine, through CHEATING. His record is bogus. Watching him play is ridiculous. His artifically bloated body; jogging on singles, ground balls, etc; his now-poor outfield play. That is not the game of baseball I care about, it is essentially a non-stop home run derby with little or no regard for the actual execution of a great sport. Baseball is prospering today without the HR excesses of the 90s - the sooner Bonds gets his cheesy record and retires the better.
And pitchers don't cheat? Other players don't add that little bit of tar to the bat? As fat as Babe Ruth was he jogged on singles later in his career. And Babe Ruth would have been kicked out years earlier simply because of his lifestyle.
Don't give me this baseball is holier than all before Bonds. Other players used whatever it took to get the job done. And for years the drugs Bonds is accused of using were of legal use