He's already been convicted in the press, and in the eyes of the nation, so today's news that he probably will never even be tried in a court of law has to be but a small comfort for Barry Bonds, who has always been and remains in my view the greatest hitter of all time in the greatest sport of all time.
I know the reporters personally who ruined his reputation, as well as their editors, and also why, as the good journalists they were trying to be, why they did what they did.
But, underneath all of your careful work, Lance, and yours, Phil, was an awful flaw and that is the inherent racism that made Barry Bonds an all too easy target for those looking for someone to blame for the steroids scandal that almost killed our national pastime.
You managed to select one guy out of the crowd and pinpoint his errors in judgment to seek a Pulitzer Prize that you didn't win, and you didn't deserve to win. You are not baseball fans, obviously. You don't know the game, or anything about what it takes to be great.
Do not read me wrong. I do not apologize for, nor excuse cheaters in sports. But I've studied the evidence from a mathematical perspective, and the obvious use of steroids by Bonds may have added, at most, 3 home runs to his seasonal totals.
Apply that across the board, and you'll easily see that McGwire, Sosa, and a few others did a great deal more than simply supercede the Babe and Maris. Which leads us back to Bonds.
If you do the math, his records stand.
Case closed.
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