Barry Bonds

When I go to post something, and I hit enter, I'll post it and there's no line breaks. What's up with that?

When has Barry ever tested positive for steroids, let alone twice? Also, I beleive he was a juicer, but there has never been in smoking gun proof that he has done them.
As far as cheating goes and him being suspended, I think it would be a travesty to suspend him. First, taking steroids (HGH) was not illegal in baseball, so he actually was not breaking any written rules if he had taken them.
Second, how do you suspend a man for doing something that a significant percentage of the players in the league were doing at the time, I mean Bud Selig was an owner and he knew damn well what was going on. I'm sick of him acting all high and mighty, trying to play it off like he had know idea. I would be willing to bet that the President of the United States knew what was going on, he was the owner of the Rangers when they had Palmerio (who has tested positve), Canseco (enough said), and Juan Gonzales (rumored, and probably true).
My point is that the ownership turned a blind eye, when they knew there was a problem. But when their sport and their teams were profiting from this, they had no problem with their players swelling up, as long as their pockets were swelling up too. They watched as the monster was being created, so they need to deal with the consequences and not seek to blame a single person for the problem just because he is probably the best player to ever play the game.

As far as Bonds and the record go. I beleive he should be considered the "homerun king". Actually I beleive he should be considered the "Best Ever". I hate saying this because I always kind of hated him growing up because he was my brother's favorite player, but over the years I haven't grown to like him, but I have certainly grown to greatly respect what he has done. This guy has won 7 MVP's (easily could have been 8 or 9, compare his season to Pendleton's the year Terry won and you will wonder why Terry got the crown instead of Barry). He's not all long ball either, this guy is the only guy in the 500/500 (homers/stolen bases) club, and you know how crazy that is.....he is also the only guy in the 400/400 club....think about that. Oh and he's not all offense, as his 8 gold gloves prove.
Well I have made this post long enough, I had actually only planned on writing a couple of lines and this is what it turned into. I'm sure this might spark a great debate, but those are always fun.

you make great points, but he's a juicer and should just come out and say it now not after he breaks the home run record.

While everyone has made good points so far, he's still a cheater. Now that MLB has a policy for steroids now, and they are checking everyone else out except him, shouldn't they do something about it? I mean c'mon, comes up as a scrawny kid and within an offseason in what? '93, '94, he becomes the Hulk. Barry probably doesn't use them any more because he knows MLB will be checking.

I said before they started checking for steroids, he was using them. And when Jose Canseco wrote his book, didn't he say how they tested Barry Bonds? He's off them now, which is why he's slowing down, his age has a lot to do with it to, but it's mostly the roids. Jason Giambi says they don't help a bit, but ask was385. He'll tell you differently. He's said many stories about people in area on roids.

Arod is steroid free and I would rather have him or Ken Jr. break it. I remember when the Braves almost had Arod in 2001(?). The Braves made an offer for 10 yrs, $126 mil. The Rangers doubled it. But no, BOO BARRY! I hate all cheaters, and I think when a player enters spring training, the very first day, they should test, if anyone's caught, suspend. Do it again at mid season and the end. MLB needs to address the steroid the issue and Bud Selig isn't doing much.

I dont know I just dont have that big of a problem with steriods. i dont think anyone can say that it hasnt made the game more awe-inspiring. Everyones favorite stat throughout baseball history has always been homeruns. And when it comes to baseball in todays game, the emphasis is on hitting. a player is not considered an impact player if he can just field and has no hitting ablility. but on the other hand someone can make the all star team if they have all hitting skills in the world and cant do anything with a glove.

Its interesting though to see how society reacts to having artificial stimulation. For example take a look at Pink Floyd's album The Wall. At one point in history that was the number 1 best selling album of all time (a record that can be compared to the impact of the home run record for baseball). It was heavily known that the whole Pink Floyd band was heavily under the influence of varous drugs during the production of that album. And i think its safe to say that the influnce of those drugs enhanced the quality of that album to a certain degree, yet no one is complaining or campaigning to put an * next to their name because of this. It is the same with steriods. They enhance the ability of the players to make them better athletes, which in turn makes the game more exciting and watchable.

Now its obvious that this has a hugely negative impact on the youth because in will start to matriculate to younger and younger ages until it becomes an epidemic.  No one wants to see little leaguers hit the ball 350 feet on a regular basis so they can an upper hand to being drafted out of high school. Steriods are already becoming a problem in high schools as more and more schools are starting to test for steriods. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this steriod era and if it can somehow be controlled. I hope so because seeing the homerun record become 1000 home runs just plain sounds exciting to me.