Barry Bonds

I don't know how I feel about the whole Barry Bonds steroid use thing.

On the one hand, I do think that he obviously has taken steroids and I think it's a bunch of bull that he "unknowingly" took the steroids because his trainer told him it was for arthritis or something. Please. No one is stupid enough to unknowingly take steroids and no one is stupid enough to believe that he unknowingly took steroids. So, with that in mind, all those people who are so critical of him breaking the home run record are probably right in saying he doesn't really deserve it because if players like Hank Aaron or Babe Ruth had taken steroids, they would have hit at least 800 or 900 home runs.

On the other hand, although I know that steroids makes you stronger, steroids can't make you a good athlete and they can't give you skills to know how to hit a ball perfectly. Barry Bonds has always been a really good baseball player and who's to say that he wouldn't have hit enough home runs to break the record anyway?

I would resort to the point that baseball is just a game and home run records aren't really all that important, but I can't say that because I don't think we should teach all the future athletes of the world that taking drugs is okay and that it doesn't really matter that Barry Bonds took steroids. What all these baseball players need to realize is that real men don't need steroids to hit a ball far. And if you really feel the need to take drugs so you can become more famous and make more money, you should re-evaluate your life.

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