Should the MLB get rid of Barry Bonds' records?
542855
The steroid policy is too little too late. He has accomplished so much and there is no way of telling when he started using steroids. It should count. \n\nIn the future, I hope anyone caught using steroids will be banned for life.
652089
I am very happy...I hate Barry Bonds and hope he does not break Hank's record.  Hank Aaron did it on talent and Barry is just full of lies and steroids!!
572798
I don't. I think any records he obtains come with an asterisk because of the obvious steroid usage.
143023
Yes, Barry Bonds should retire. Basseball is a team sport. It seems that Bonds is only intrested in breaking the homerun record and not the welfare of his team. He is over rated.
491725
If Barry Bonds retired in 1998, he would be a hall of famer. The second he rubbed on the cream, injected the clear, posed for ZMA, he ruined his life. Barry Bonds does not deserve the hall of fame. He cheated. Winners never cheat. Cheaters never win. Besides if he was in the hall of fame, they couldnt make a plaque because his head is too big.
593474
Well, I'll put it this way. The legends of the game have had cold streaks way longer than 4 days. I wouldn't be suprised if he doesn't hit 714 until tuesday. Bonds is not a legend, and due to the fact that the footnote attached to his asterix on homeruns will cut off half the page, it really doesn't matter if and when he passes Ruth and Aaron. You ever hit a homerun? It's tough, and no one wants to be the guy who let Bonds tie Ruth.
517613
Well, this debate will go on for a long time. For me, I feel as though it is wrong. But others will argue that there are many athletes who have used steriods, have not been caught and have been listed as record breakers.....my own opinion, let him break it, but do not record it in the record books.
599670
I agree with you. If I were Barry, I would want to kick someone where the sun don't shine every game. It still hasn't been proved that he used steroids and yet, he is booed, intentionally walked, and booed some more. He is such a great player and deserves much more than what he is getting. If I were Barry, I would definatly retire after this season. It sucks to be him right now. Poor man...But at least he passed Babe's record and I hope he passes Hank's record. I hate seeing him get walked.
476228
You can't strip stats from the books because it will create continuity problems and holes in the way we look at accomplishments.   Stats are the major way we record baseball history.. The problem with steroids and other devices used to create an advantage over your opponent, it makes the honorable player suspect. Everyone who is good must be cheating.  Baseball should follow the I.O.C.'s logic and penalize for perception not proving beyond a shadow of a doubt.  Sports are not the legal system and need to show that they are beyond reproach and cheating.  It should fall to the individual player to know what medication he/she is taking and realize that it is their career and reputation at stake every time they use something on themselves internally or externally.
1037712
Yes he should be banned.  Although technically he was not cheating, we was breaking the law.  In case some of you forgot, steroids are ILLEGAL! Bonds is my favorite all-time player, but if he has been found to use steriods he broke the law and should be punished for it.  Rose broke the law and the rules of baseball and paid the price for doing so. I hope that it comes out that he did not use, but all indications point to that he did use and that is unfortunate because I think he was well on his way to becoming the best player in baseball history without using steriods.  Too bad.
275078
I guess you can look at it as he found a loophole.  We should blame MLB just as much as Bonds.  But, it still doesn't change the fact that what he did was wrong.  I personally think he is a cheater and should be banned from baseball and Hall of Fame.
299972
I think he used steroids back from 1998 through 2002.  I think just to be fair, they should wipe out his records from those years.  And Sammy Sosa may never play baseball again, from what i heard was he retired.
950931
I absolutely understand where you are going with this question and I agree in part with what you are saying.  Koufax had a 12 year career.  The first 6 years were under .500 with an era well over 4 runs a game.  By todays standards that's actually okay.  Back in the 50's and 60's you were basically on your way out!!  Somewhere during the off season between 1960 and 1961 something happened.  What that was, who can tell.  It's like a light went off in his head and he suddenly learned how to pitch.  There is no denying the second half of his career but as you said many other pitchers have won more games.  I can give you a list of pitchers with close to 300 wins that are not in the HOF.  Baseball has many issues starting with Bonds right on down to a terrible playoff system.  The powers to be really need to sit down and take a long hard look at their position on matters that really count.  As for Koufax, we all know about his medical problems when he left the game.  That may have helped him more than anything else.  He was a very good pitcher who just happened to have 4 HOF seasons and then walked away from the game.  I'd say based on what we've seen over the past 20 years, yes, why not.  After all lesser players are in the HOF
1114116
Yeah, probably, at least according to his numbers posted in the steroid/HGH era (ca. 1986 - present).  But then again, considering all that has been discovered over the past two seaons, I have the strong right to wonder if he were/is probably on some illegal performance enhancer himself.  So I would be hesitant to put his name on the top of the list.  In fact, I don't think any player of this same era should have any record in the record books, considering that there is just way too much of a cloud of doubt surrounding just about every single baseball star who has played during this period.  \n\nPersonally, I find it kind of strange that Clemens seemed to be on the decline of his career in the early-to-mid 90s only to re-surface as an amazingly dominant pitcher again a few years later with Toronto.  I mean, the Red Sox must have known that he was on his way out -- sure, teams make mistakes all the time (and the 1990s Red Sox weren't exactly the smartest team around), but not to the point where an organization would have been so entirely, utterly wrong about the future of a franchise player.  It's all just too fishy.  So, that said, I don't think we can ever really judge the extent of Clemens' "greatness".  Which, by the way, is the same reason why I'm not sure how easy it is to gauge any player's "greatness", because many "great" players have either found ways around the rules (corked bats, spit-ball pitchers, etc.) or have just benefitted from favorable conditions unavailable to players of other generations (such as pitchers during the dead-ball era, or sluggers during the Coors Field/Jose Canseco "juiced" era).
282918
I don't keep up with baseball, however I have heard the Barry Bonds story going on and as far as I'm concerned I'd say NO
1156115
I'm not a Barry Bonds fan, in fact I wish he would go away, but we are in America where you are innocent until PROVEN guilty. We all (including me) need to leave it alone.
514891
Without steroids, Barry Bonds would have made the hall of fame. He's that good of a ball player. Without steroids, however, he wouldn't have come close to Aaron's Home Run record. Does he deserve to be the Home Run king? No. Will he be? Yes. Sad to say, the deed is done, he took steroids, and he will break the record next year. This whole fiasco makes the Pete Rose lifetime ban from baseball a big joke.