I kinda feel bad for Barry.... AND all the other players who are about to get named....There was a time in baseball for a player when you looked around the locker room and more people were doing it than Not.... It really came down to "Do it or don't Play" for a lot of people or for Barry it might have felt like "Do it or watch these Jackholes set your records"..... I'm not sure what I would do if my whole career depended on wether I did this or not - And back then the lines were a little blurred what was a steroid... "The Cream"??????Even though it was illegal - MLB didn't yet know how to handel it and dropped the ball all while enjoying the profits of the MLB resurrgance and HR records..... MLB should be put up against the wall... The Commish should be put up against the wall...Then MLB should say - "Records are records, we're not looking back were moving FORWARD..." They should present their evidence that upwards of 60% of the locker rooms were doing it - "THEREFORE - we can't asterisk everyone So, we close the chapter" - Hey Baseball has always been a "Sport Of Discussion and Opinion"... Baseball fans can form their own opinions and debate and discuss what they like - but, the records happened..... MLB has gone through many changes, The Walls were moved in, the balls were changed, the Bats were made differently and we have the steroid era.... WE didn't have a policy back then.NOW we move on... THIS is our policy and whoever breaks it gets severe penalties....NEXT.
i agree.selig is a bumbling idiot and he should take some notes from the NFL.steroids were rampant in the '80s in the NFL and it wasn't a big deal. they realized the issue, put in strong tests, and moved on, didn't make a big deal about it and the public has mostly forgotten about it completely.selig's solution was the opposite. he ignored it early, as it became painfully obvious that it was an issue, then ignored it a little more. then, when nothing could be done about the past (except open a powder keg for MLB), he decides to have mitchell investigate it. i'm not sure what the point of delving into the past to uncover all the people that used it its. no good can come of it.i love baseball, but MLB is run by a bunch of idiots. MLB over-rates it's own importance and is constantly looking backwards at the expense of looking forward and appealing to fans. (unlike the NFL, which is constantly driven to garner more and more fans).i love barry bonds and don't think his steroid use is a huge deal. he shouldn't have lied in court and perjury should be taken seriously, but it angers me that he was ever in a situation where lying was necessary. they were investigating BALCO, bonds admitted he used steroids unknowingly, what more did they want? like bill clinton, he lied in court (about something that's pretty meaningless), b/c the truth would've been damaging for his career.