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Originally Posted by DR3AMR
Technically, he didn't cheat.
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Big wow. Bonds may not have been violating official MLB rules at the time he was using steroids, but he certainly was aware that he was violating the fan's rules....we never approved of artificial enhancements and advantages, did we?
Are we now going to pretend that there was no awarness of steroids and how they imparted unfair edges to those using them? Are we pretending that we didn't know about East German women getting turned into virtual men for the Olympics or are unaware of athletes from other sports who got caught and disgraced? Athletes have been having to piss in bottles for a couple of decades now, that MLB did not have an official steroids policy was not a matter of it not having steroid users, it was a matter of the folks running the game hoping that no one would ever find out.
dr3, if you and I were competing in some sport or game, and after I won, you learned that I had done something, that while not actually against the rules, was indeed something which gave me an unfair advantage over you, would you still feel like you lost and the matter of who was best was settled?
"Technical" may apply to the law or what MLB can or cannot do to Bonds, but it does not apply to the spirit of the game nor to the expectations of the fans that it is natural ability on display, not chemically enhanced ability.