Sure, it’s baseball, and I’m in no way a fan (IMO, playing the video game is more fun than the actual sport), but a disagreement is a disagreement. Personally, I think the whole steroids thing in baseball is overblown, for the following reason:

No matter how strong you are, you still have to actually hit the ball.

When you think about it, baseball is a peculiar sport. It’s the only one I know of where the team with the ball/puck/rubber chicken/whatever is actually on DEFENSE, the best thing you can do is have the ball go so far that another one has to be brought out to replace it, and 30% is considered great (that’s why averages are written out like bullet calibers — “.301″ sounds more impressive than “30 percent”).

To be honest with you, my personal impression of Bonds is that he’s an asshole. Funny thing about that is, the way the media has been treating all this kinda makes me sympathize with him. All that’s going on in the world, and they still find time to gripe about him*? Barry Bonds doing roids doesn’t result in people being killed overseas, y’know…

(* - needless to say, I’m not talking about the specifically sports media.)