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[gridlore]

While I was writing the last entry, Barry Bonds smashed a 3-1 pitch to the upper deck in Philadelphia.

In idiot news, anti-Bonds fans had a sign "Ruth did it on Beer and Hot Dogs."

Newsflash, kids. Bab Ruth played in the Majors from 1915 to 1935. Prohibition, the banning of alcohol mandated by the XVIIIth Amendment, was in force from 1919 to 1933. Which means that during Ruth's moist productive years beer was an illegal substance.

So Ruth's records should be stricken from the books and he should be pulled from the Hall of Fame. At least if the Phillies Phans are right...

Comments

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

It's not whether what he did was against the law, but whether what he did was banned by baseball because it significantly affects the outcomes of games. Ty Cobb was a racist asshole who got into fistfights like I drink Cokes. That's a matter for police. The 1920 White Sox threw the World Series and were rightly tossed on their ears.

It needs to be established clearly that Bonds knowingly took steroids in order condemn him, and that hasn't happened. I'm even inclined to let it slide, if proved, on the basis that hormone abuse seems to have been endemic. But yeah, I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep if the powers that be decided at that point not to let it slide.