Barry Bonds was not a scapegoat. Although there may be others to blame for the abuse of steroids in the major leagues (such as the Players' Association, which stonewalled the owners' attempts to institute drug testing in the major leagues for many years), to contend that Barry Bonds was a scapegoat is inane. He was the one who (allegedly) injected himself with the drugs, lied about it both to the public and to the grand jury, and pocketed millions and millions of dollars. To claim that he was a scapegoat for the major league owners is akin to claiming that O. J. Simpson is a scapegoat for the manufacturer of Ginsu knives.

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A scapegoat means he is the one who takes all the heat, and lets the other guilty parties get off. The Mitchell report was glaring in that it only covered a few teams, and only received testimony from trainers they could strong arm. Are you saying no one used steroids in Kansas City or Pittsburgh (if wins meant steroids...well, you may be right).

Personally, if the entire outfield of the pirates were injecting HGH I could live with it if they were winning games. But they weren't and I don't blame HGH.

Sports are going to be forever changed by enhancement drugs of the era. Right now its HGH - but I bet there is something better out there that people don't know about.

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You couldn't find anything about Aaon a year after he hit 715. It's not a big deal. The knuckle draggers kept their jobs by dragging his name throught the mud long enough and now that hes not around there is nothing to write about. With all that negative press Barry Bonds still created more excitement for baseball then any player in recent history. Made more money for owners. He was a cash cow for baseball, a easy story for lazy writers, and a media perseuted athlete who was a whinpping post for the bottom feeders to strew their jealous venom

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Barry who?

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Barry Bonds was and is a victim of the new journalism. Lance Armstrong was juiced through his career but played the cancer card perfectly and the press made him royalty. Yes Barry was a tough interview - Lance was the American hero and semi-accommodating to the fourth estate. Time will tell as they say. Both were great but very flawed athletes. There are those champions who have been caught cheating and there are those who think they got away with it. Let's stop worshiping athletes..

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Barry Bonds was great, somewhat flawed, but boy was he great, and thats the bottom line.

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Does anyone remember Biggio's 3000th hit? Biggio was a GREAT player &is a first ballot hall of famer. But what absolutely is getting to me is that, no one, but us Houston fans care, I heard a little about it on ESPN, & now a days you don't even hear about. But you durn still hear about Bonds hittin that homerun, (and in my opinion, couldnt have even dreamed about gettin it, without the steroids). To me it seems that a true hometown hero was vastly overlooked, at a record he set the right way. Not by using any performance enhansing crap.

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Major League Baseball must have a policy that players who are members of the good old boy network and their deeds of success are nowhere to be found.

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