Bonds: "No such thing as an asterisk in baseball."

[stillsomeguy]

Too bad for him Johnnie Cochran is dead. Maybe Jackie Chiles is available.

[gilly]

Anybody can cheat - it's the guys that do incredible things while playing fair that are really worth watching.

Joey Harrington?

[PokerAndPucks]

Bonds should never be allowed into the Hall of Fame anyway.

So the ball goes in with an asterisk, and everybody is happy.

Barry Bonds sucks.

Oh, and he absolutely used steroids and HGH AFTER they were banned. He just had the best designer stuff that can't be detected by MLB testing. Someday soon they'll perfect a test for HGH, and these hacks will be exposed.

How is it fair to say to a teenage kid with great baseball skills that no matter how good he is, how hard he works, etc, he'll never make it to the big leagues unless he destroys his body with steroids so he can keep up with the other guys that are all doing it?

Anybody else remember when baseball players (even Mark McGwire) looked like regular guys? McGwire hit 49 homers in 1987, when he weighed about a buck ninety. Un-juiced players can play too, and their accomplishments are even more amazing when you know they're clean.

Anybody can cheat - it's the guys that do incredible things while playing fair that are really worth watching.

If he used after the ban, which I agree he most likely did, he never tested positive. A positive test is the only fair way to punish players. The fact is, MLB didn't want to test them otherwise they would have banned steroids before they did and they would have had Sosa and McGwire taking a whiz quiz before during and after every single game.

Besides, like someone else said, if you ban or suspend Bonds you have to do the same to at least 1/3 of the ball players. Plus 30 years in prison could keep him out because of character issues.

The real question is, why do the baseball players get ripped so much when probably 75% of NFL players, and a good chunk of players in the NBA, NHL and every other pro sport are doing illegal drugs too. You never hear about NFL records being questioned, or 330 pound linemen being tested.