| Re: Giving Bonds some credit
What Bonds is doing this year is amazing. Because he's an incredible ballplayer.
That doesn't take away the fact that there's like a 99% chance he did something he shouldn't have a few years, and his overall numbers (which would have been INCREDIBLE, no matter what) were inflated because of it.
There's nothing that can be done about it though. What's done is done. We cant go back in time and test Bonds' urine or catch him in the act or anything like that. As a result, we can't asterisk it, or whatever. But we do have to consider the circumstances surrounding Bonds' incredible achievement. Which is the fact that his accomplishments were almost definitely aided by chemicals that were not only against the rules of baseball, but against the laws of the United States of America. And can be really harmful to your body (ask Lyle Alzado...) in the long run
Cheating is cheating. We shouldn't just shrug it off and say "eh, everybody does it" The sports world should strive to be as clean and legitimate as possible, and thus we need to remember the individuals who achieved their feats through less-than-honest means, if for no other reason than to help the sports world be proactive when addressing other scandals in the future |