Pick your poison Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens or now Alex Rodriguez baseball has been and still is full of cheaters and liars. All records are meaningless. Donald Feur, the head of the players union, along with the commissioner Bud Selig have had their head in the sand so long during the steroid era no one believes a word out of their collective mouths.
There is "no crying in baseball". It should say there is no "truth or honesty" in baseball. Baseball need to strike their records for about 10 to 20 years during this period. Any record or statistic during this time is tainted.
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I've said all along I did not stand for or believe in what became Selig's plain as day witch hunt of Barry Bonds...all this stuff he implemented was to try and bring Barry Bonds down, and now a federal jury is wasting everyone's time and taxpaper money trying to do the same.
The bottom line here the whole time was you have to "asterik" the era itself, not one specific individual. In the end all it does is make everyone look bad. With Clemens and now A-Rod and who knows who else yet to be linked, it simply showed me that baseball and political figures put their full bullseye on Bonds because he wasn't a media darling or a fan favorite.
How many pitchers were taking drugs? Hitters? Simple IMPOSSIBLE to know...so don't go after one person, but just go ahead and label the entire era, whether fair or not to the guys who were clean.
A shame really. Pressure in Texas to live up to $250 million? Doesn't explain the star numbers you put up before and after you got there. Come on, Alex...you can surely do one better than that.
I agree with you Mr. Hazelwood I think they put too much concentration on Barry Bonds instead of concentrating on some of the other players that were not clean. I believe most of the attention was on Bonds because of his personality and how he dealt with the media and the public. He is certainly a "Prick" but he should not have had to carry the burden of this dark scandal by himself. I believe when the smoke clears there are going to be other big names that come out. These athletes fail to realize that the American public is very forgiving "if" you come clean. That is the problem that I had with Michael Vick he just kept lying at some point just admit to your wrongdoing and try to move on.