Should MLB celebrate Bonds passing of Bambino on all-time homers list?
Nick Santos Barry Bonds is a cheater, plain and simple. Forget his 714 career home runs, 1,869 career RBIs and a career .610 slugging average. If Bonds did take performance-enhancing drugs, as detailed in the book Game of Shadows by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, he’s tarnishing not one, but two highly-coveted Major League home run records. Now the question arises whether or not Bonds should be commemorated when he hits 715 or not. Bonds cheating to get to 714 homers (and on his way to a record 73 in 2001) is reason enough not to commemorate anything the man achieves. After all he’s only the second guy to pass Babe Ruth on the all-time home runs list. But Major League Baseball should not be celebrating cheaters passing milestones. It is questionable whether Bonds would have passed Ruth if it were not for his reputed use of human growth hormones to beef-up his physique. Without steroids Bonds was good, he was great. But with the help of performance-enhancing drugs Bonds became un
