Barry Bonds, Home Run King?

[ryan8472]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

Whatever. Dope or no dope. Hitting a homerun has NOTHING to do with strength, it's about technique, timing, feel, guts, anticipation and balance. You don't get that through drugs. Give the guy a break. If he hits them so incredibly often, he deserves some credit, don't he?

Yes. IAWTC


The point I was trying to make earlier though, is that we're making Bonds a scapegoat for all steroid accusations. The only reason anyone wants Bonds' records to be erased or tainted is because he holds some of the most cherished records in the game. So what. You can't go back through every single game he has played in the last 22 years and decide which games he played in were a result of steroid use and which weren't. It's impossible. Because then you would have to go back and look at every game ever played and foolishly try to determine if steroids affected the outcome. What if Aaron Boone used steroids when he hit the HR against the Red Sox? What if Robin Ventura used steroids way back in 2004 when he won the division for the Dodgers? What if David Ortiz was enhancing his performance during the ALCS of 2004? You could go on forever. But if you do that, you'd be questioning the outcome of every season for every team for the past 20 years.