And Thelonious Drunk is absolutely right when he talks about steroids being much the same as the supplements you get in the nutrition store near your home.  They do the EXACT same thing that steroids do to the body in the EXACT same manner that steroids do.  The only difference you may wonder?  The LEGAL supplements are more dangerous than the designer steroids.  

This has never been about health or the kids or anything else.  It's about home runs and nothing more.  Nobody is crying foul about Roger Clemens when we know for an absolute fact that he's a steroid user.  The guy, for crying out loud, got a better benefit from steroids than Bonds at an older age than Bonds.  But nobody cares.  He's a pitcher and not hitting home runs.

Furthermore, nobody seems to be able to add 2 and 2 together to realize that if the hitters are getting better because of steroids (evidence, by the way, proves this theory wrong!) that the pitchers are getting the same benefit so we're back to an even playing field and Bonds' home runs in this era are every bit as REAL as if he'd hit them in 1950.  You have juiced pitchers and juiced hitters.  Do the math.  

And not a single person around cares about the pitchers taking steroids because they aren't hitting home runs.  If people would finally, once and for all, admit why this is an issue (home runs and home runs alone!) that's one thing, but as long as people are going to hide behind some absurd idea that it's about the kids or whatever else, I'm going to point out the hypocrisy in those statements every single time.  

YOu're absolutely right.  There is an eneven playing field.  Pitchers make up about 75% of the players who have tested positive and there's been the biggest boost in players hitting about 15-20 home runs and NOT 50 or more home runs.  It's the guys who once hit 5-10 who have received this benefit from steroids...if there has been one.

The bottom line is that for people crying about the legitimacy of the stats is that you have more juiced pitchers than you have juiced hitters and Bonds has STILL hit a shitload of home runs.  He's done so in the toughest home run hitting park for a left-handed batter in history.  

Also, nobody seems to be able to comprehend that when a guy hits, say, 73 home rus with the kind of power Barry has always displayed that it's absolutely no different than a guy like the loved, cherished, and god-like Ryne Sandberg hitting 30 and 40 home runs.  Both instances are so out of the ordinary that it's as fair to say Barry was taking steroids as it is to say Ryne Sandberg was taking them.  He saw a HUGE boost in his power later in his career and nobody thinks twice.  Why?  Simple.  Because Sandberg wasn't breaking any home run records and he's not going to be anytime soon.  Truth be told, it's far more out of the ordinary to see a boost in power that Sandberg saw than the one we saw from Bonds.  But, of course, nobody is interested in logic when it comes to steroids, which, by the way, hurt the player's health (knees, ligaments, joints, etc. over time) as much as they help a player.  But, again, fuck logic, dude.  I don't like Bonds and he's a cheating asshole so screw him.  

Yeah, this issue gets to me.  People stop thinking when it comes to steroids.  People stop asking questions that should be asked.  People stop using logical thoughts to aid them in coming to conclusions.  So while I have little respect for someone like Bonds, I have great respect for his achievements because I can neither know for sure the impact of steroids (though early indications are that it doesn't help one damn bit!) or who else and how many were taking them.  When someone wants to think rationally about this they will see how irrational they've been.  I have less respect for the individuals who pretend it's about the kids or some other bullshit than I do for the players who have taken steroids.  And I have even less respect for the assholes that can't add 2 and 2 together and don't equally attack the pitchers as much as they do the hitters.  YOu can learn a lot about a person by their reactions to steroids in baseball.  And I'm embarassed to say that what I've learned over the years is an embarassment to mankind like I never thought possible.  

It's far too easy to blame the best of the era because their perfgormance is elite to begin with.  Fact is as many or more pitchers were on some sort of juice and many people mistakenly want to blame hitters.