"So what does this have to do with sports? With everyone fretting about the steroids era and how it frayed the carefully woven fabric of baseball history, ask yourself this: Does any of it matter? Bonds remains the best leftfielder I've ever seen in person. I'll never forget watching Roger Clemens in his prime. I never turned the channel when Manny was batting for the Red Sox -- never, ever, ever, not once. A-Rod fetched the highest price in each of my fantasy auctions this decade. I probably paid four grand to Fenway scalpers from 1999 to 2001 to watch Pedro pitch even though I was broke. Some of them cheated for an edge they didn't need; others stayed clean. I will remember them all.
Maybe we overthink this stuff. The truth is, either you're great or you're not. " For the rest of the article Click Here
That was an excerpt of a Bill Simmons article BMack sent to me yesterday.
Barry Bonds will go down in my eyes as the greatest baseball player to ever live, and Roger Clemens will go down as the best pitcher that ever played in my lifetime and it is about time that people take away this whole steroid witch hunt and realize that they were unbelievable players. Everyone is so quick to call everyone a cheater but they don't step back and look at what these players accomplished. Steroids or not, it is extremely impressive. The "Steroid Era" is just that. A majority of MLB players did it, so why wouldn't they do it? It is time everyone move on and focus on a new chapter. There is no reason that the federal government should be involved in this matter, I think everyone gets it now. What Bonds, Clemens, Sosa, MacGwire, and A-Rod have done in their careers are not only history making, but absolutely ridiculous. If these players don't make it into the Hall of Fame for their accomplishments, then the whole system is fucked.
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