With the disclosure that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for steroids in 2003 suddenly everyone is wringing their hands about performance enhancing drugs in baseball again. And it's silly.
When Barry Bonds took THG it was not even been classified as a steroid and it was not illegal. or was it against the rules of baseball. And when A-Rod took steroids it wasn't against the rules of baseball either.
So Bonds, Rodriguez, and others took pills that were not banned by baseball in an attempt to gain an edge. So what???? It just doesn't register as a terrible transgression to me.
This is baseball after all. The sport that winks and grins at guys like Gaylord Perry who doctored baseballs or Norm Cash who won the batting title while using a corked bat all year.
You can even bat out of order in baseball and as long as the other team doesn't catch it it's not a violation. An umpire can't penalize you on his own. The other team MUST object first.
Breaking the rules is part of the fabric of baseball. Yet in the case of Bonds and Rodriguez they didn't actually break any rules because baseball didn't prohibit the use of steroids when they took them. So their transgressions are actually less serious than those of Gaylord Perry and Norm Cash,
Some people even want to take Bonds' name out of the record book. That would make the record book a lie. Bonds hit more home runs in his career than anyone else. The circumstances under which he did it are irrelevant. The record book records history. It should not be used to make history politically correct.