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Years ago, we posed a question about a question, wondering how the court of public opinion, along with the guardians of baseball, might have dealt with Barry Bonds had he answered affirmatively when a federal grand jury asked him in December 2003 about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
What if Bonds, we asked, had said he had surrendered to steroid use because it had practically become an institutionalized necessity, the key to unlocking the door to statistical and lifestyle riches?
And that his involvement was influenced by nothing less sacred than a pursuit of the American Dream, all pumped up.
In 2006, Fay Vincent, the former baseball commissioner, told us: We are a terrifically forgiving country, in part because we have such a low standard of morality. But Ive thought about this question a lot, and I believe that people would have forgiven Barry Bonds.
MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/sports/baseball/its-time-to-reconsider-barry-bonds-for-the-hall-of-fame.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)I'd still call him a cheater who did whatever he could to get rich, no different from other fraudsters.
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)Letting him in would do a tremendous disservice to all of those who got in without using drugs to do it, even more so to those who got close but missed out.
It's completely absurd to me that assholes like Bonds get away with a slap on the wrist for their crimes while someone like Pete Rose gets suspended for life, for GAMBLING. Really? Insanity.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Amphetamines were very prevalent in baseball so it is unlikely, in fact impossible, to think that Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Roberto Clemente or all the other greats did not take them.
Dawgs
(14,755 posts)Sorry.
artislife
(9,497 posts)I would rather Pete Rose go in before any of the flagrant ball players.
London Lover Man
(371 posts)and Jack left town....
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)He's a cheater, jeeeze
Lets just start saying its ok to be a sleezeball why don't we