Who's to say that he needed the steroids to get there...as stated earlier, the key to hitting home runs is more to do with quickness of hands & sharpness of vision...also, the Babe never had to face a slider down & away, or any of a number of other tricky pitches that even mediocre pitchers have in their arsenal today...the atheletes today are stronger, bigger, better trained, & yes, many of them have been made better thru modern chemistry...including some of the same pitchers Bonds has faced thru the years...all this is not to excuse anything Barry may have done, but just to say that the records are all distorted somewhat by the times they are set in...
On a related note, I have no problem with the fact that MLB is not going to make a big deal out of Bonds' 714 or 715...being #2 isn't all that anyway...wake me up if he gets 756...

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