Thread: Has this turmoil reached your family?

I....just have to say this.....in my family.....there are huge differences in morals and values that I don't remember being an issue before.....

Is Barry Bonds allowed to be the next hero? Here's a great ball player that abided by the rules of the times......and sorry...I think he deserves to get credit for what he did. I don't know if it's because he's Black or what it is......but I think he's being unjustly condemned.

I am white. I am not on the band wagon thinking that Babe Ruth is a hero. He was a friggin drunk. But he played ball well.

How many times do we have to have rules and then change them in order to know who is a person who we should admire? Personally....I would pick Barry Bonds over Babe Ruth.
If Barry Bonds did it with enhancing drugs , he also did it without them. Babe Ruth can't say the same. Babe Ruth wouldn't be allowed to be the water boy by todays standards. That doesn't mean he wasn't a great player.

I'm not trying to pick sides....all I can say is either play by the same rules or don't. What if's don't count.

Well, I guess if you like someone who is consistantly rude, sarcastic, mean, to both fans and the media, used an illegal substance to give him an extra advantage over others who played by the rules, than I guess Bonds is your guy!

Ruth was probably the best baseball player ever. Did you know that before he was known for hitting homeruns, he was also breaking records as a pitcher? ALL WITHOUT STEROIDS. I don't understand how you can compare Ruth's drinking (which certainly could have put him at a disadvantage while playing), with Bonds who cheated by using steroids to give hime an edge over everyone else?

Bonds abided by the rules of the times? Which rule in baseball states that you are required to take steroids?

There's no doubt Bonds was a great player even before taking steroids. He just got jealous of all the attention McQuire & Sosa were getting during the homerun race and that's why he started taking them.

If people can't see that this is cheating, they're blind. Bonds cheated as well as Sosa, McQuire, Palmeiro, etc. Any records they attained due to their steroid use, should enter into the record books with asteriks next to them and state something like - "achived during the period of steroids." We owe it to the intergrity of the game and to those great players who came before them and achieved their records by playing by the rules.

I think we as a society have become so desensitized by wrongdoing that in some ways what we considered unfair before, we now accept as being "no big deal." We've lowered our standards.

How do you know which people to admire? I usually go by their actions and deeds.