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Barry Bonds and Pete Rose have nothing to do with each other...

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I used Pete Rose as an example of someone who was severely punished by MLB for conduct detrimental to the game. I could have used Shoeless Joe Jackson or any number of players who were punished by MLB in the past. It remains to be seen if Bonds will be punished at all by MLB. I doubt he will be, but hopefully get booed unmercifully at every ballpark he plays in will be enough to chase him out of the game.

I agree with other posters that MLB owners share a large amount of the blame for the current situation by turning a blind eye to steroids for so long.

However, the point to my previous post was that I found Bonds' to be particularly galling in that his steroid use was so obvious that it was almost farcical. He had all the tell-tale signs of a heavy steroid user, but everyone was so in love with his homerun-hitting abilities that they gave him the benefit of the doubt, even after it came out that he'd been involved with Balco.