> > John: the big issue here is racism -- the different
> > standards applied to black and white athletes.
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>In general, yes, but how to square this statement with the similar response
>to Dave McGuire's steroid use when he broke Babe Ruth's home run record in
>1998?
You mean Mark McGwire breaking Roger Maris's record? Nobody's taken heat like Bonds, even before the most damaging allegations came out. And nobody really called McGwire on anything until he melted down in front of Congress after he retired. He got heat for being an idiot more than he did for taking anything.
But speaking of Babe Ruth, everybody loves to laugh and say he did it on hot dogs and beer, but there's evidence he injected himself with extract of sheep testicles, a stop on the slouch towards steroids.