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Dude your arguments are thin and tired. One - the major league fastball has hardly changed over the last 60 years at least. In Aaron's day guys like Bob Gibson were as good or better than anyone out there now. Bob Feller in the 1940s was said to throw 100. Heard of Nolan Ryan?

As far as roids the worst part is not the unfair advantage so much as they are horrible, even fatal, for health. So if you let some guys use them to get an obvious advantage, you are basically forcing guys who don't want to shrink their testicles or worse, get brain cancer, to "keep up". Hence the unfairness - Ruin your body like these steroid freaks or get your a** kicked on the field and lose you job. Plus the game is ruined by one dimensionsal, misshapen, gimpy players out there. More so baseball than any other sport really.

Ty Cobb sharpened his cleats, trash talked, as was an all around a-hole. But with his natural talent and grit was also one of the greatest players EVER. BTW so was Bonds pre-cheat. Only an obsession to be glorified for the HR and his advancing age and declining overall skills led him to this point.

Also, just btw, Cobb did a photo interview with the NYT in 1935, after he'd retired. Front page of the sports section, w/photos, check it out!

He pulled up his pantlegs -- the scars on HIS legs were unbelievable -- and he never once mentioned, or complained, about the scars or the pain. Didn't complain to the Times guy, either. All he said was, ''That was the way we played.''