08-10-2007, 02:56 AM
At the end of the day, it's a number. Baseball fans know that 700 is the highest plateau in home run hitting, and now they have three to judge against the future; Ruth, the man who innovated the home run, Aaron, the truest home run hitter, and Bonds, the modern era superhuman, allegedly chemically enhanced. The records they set are made to be broken, and when Alex Rodriguez or Albert Pujols pass them by and set the 800 plateau, fans are going to be in awe of the ability to have surpassed those three unique templates of the power hitting baseball player.
Major League Baseball dropped the ball on instituting a steroid policy earlier on, they probably should have put more emphasis on ensuring cleanliness after the first steroid scare that happened in the early 90's. For that, the game must suffer through the lack of truly fair play by allowing steroid users to have played baseball. Oh well, the entire history of baseball is involved with great stories of unfair advantages, they come at the game at the frequency of US wars, every twenty years or so. In the next twenty years, I bet body armor will start facing that scrutiny, who knows. In the end, Bonds is a number, a number that must be surpassed.
Major League Baseball dropped the ball on instituting a steroid policy earlier on, they probably should have put more emphasis on ensuring cleanliness after the first steroid scare that happened in the early 90's. For that, the game must suffer through the lack of truly fair play by allowing steroid users to have played baseball. Oh well, the entire history of baseball is involved with great stories of unfair advantages, they come at the game at the frequency of US wars, every twenty years or so. In the next twenty years, I bet body armor will start facing that scrutiny, who knows. In the end, Bonds is a number, a number that must be surpassed.