If Major League Baseball had evidence that Barry Bonds was using steroids in 2000, are they just as guilty as he is for letting him play and break records?
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Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger
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As I hear it on the news,they haven't proved he was using steriods.If in fact he was,and is convicted,then is H.R. record should be removed fropm the books.And he should be banned from baseball.Hall of fame as well.
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It's a fine line. If MLB couldn't prove the steroid use in 2000 (the evidence was challenged, was illegally obtained, was somehow tainted, etc.) then MLB's hands were tied. The problem with the Bonds issue is that everyone has an agenda - some want to "save the game" by protecting Bonds and some want to "save the game" by eliminating cheaters. They will use whichever facts suit their agendas. MLB may have thought the Bonds problem would just go away, so they didn't act even if they did have substantive evidene (and I don't know whether that's true). In any case, a person cannot be punished without having committed a proven crime. But if MLB failed to act in order to preserve some false notion of the purity of the players, then MLB is definitely to blame for perpetuating a fraud.
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