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I'm so sick of the steroid issue. Sure, Barry is a jackass and he took roids. His defense that he "didn't know" is pure BS. The fact is that they substances were not banned by baseball at the time is all that matters.
I don't favor putting asterisks on the record books or any other bullshit like banning them and such nor do I support retroactive punishments that would punish them for using a substance that wasn't banned at the time.
Bonds and Giambi are not the only guys who used roids or were even involved with BALCO. Benito Sangiago and Bobby Estallela were also included. We don't hear about them because they weren't out there setting records. Steroids have been used in baseball for decades. We can't just punish the recent high profile users. From the '04 season and on all we should do is test well and punish continuing users.
When it comes down to it this is just another era for baseball. We had the deadball era, the juiced ball era and now this is the juiced player era. When people look back at Bonds' 73 HR in '01 and his total career numbers they will have the same 'ya but' reaction when they look at Ed Walsh's 1.82 career ERA (almost 3000 innings) and Dutch Leonard's 0.96 ERA over 224 innings in 1914.
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