I was shaking my head at the guys on ESPN are trying to separate the issue of the legitimacy of 715 from the steroid usage. They are spinning this for baseball, pure and simple. There IS NO SEPARATION. If he did this, as it seems he did, this is absolutely illegitimate. He CHEATED. The whole 1998 “Baseball Revival” brought about by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa is also highly questionable in my book. Look at what has happened to all three of these players. Their bodies have broken down. All of them. Suddenly and absolutely. None of them were able to withstand the removal of the articficial stimulus from their “diet”. McGwire stopped the Androseen or whatever, once that came out, and he was gone within a year. Baseball began investigating steroid use, and Sosa dwindled until he is completely out of baseball. Bonds has had nothing but physical troubles. It is a disgrace. Most baseball fabns know it. I watched the replay of the homerun. His own team stayed in the dugout. Only the batboy greeted him. When Griffey hit his 500th, the whole team was out there, and the St.Louis fans roared for several minutes. If this is allowed to stand, they ‘ll have to do what Al Franken said as a joke: “Instead of an asterick like Roger maris was given for his 61 homeruns (due to his having 8 extra games), Bonds ought to have an RX symbol next to his record. Yes, the single season record and his lifetime stats.
I’m about as big of a baseball fan, full of nostalgia and emotional attachment to the game. But this makes me sick. And ESPN’s take on this pretty much infuriates me.�