Bonds and the Record Book

This is a reaction to a person who had created a petition concerning Barry Bonds. If you want to read the petition and see other opinions regarding this, please follow this link:

http://www.stratfanforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28610

Here is my opinion....

Why just Bonds? There are others in the record book who are rumored to have taken steriods-- Sosa, McGwire.... they have records in the record book, too, correct? I think many fans have done their own editing of the record book, symbolically. I understand the reason for the petition, the sentiment behind it. I think the record book should stand. After all, those players have hit those homers. No matter how anyone feels or thinks about those homers, they have been hit. Corrections to the record book, that's a different story. When they correct the number of hits a player had, for example, that's fine. The record books should be as accurate as possible. Leaving out those steroid homeruns distorts the other numbers connected to them-- wins and losses by pitchers, runs scored by players who are on base at the time those homers were hit. Then, of course, any other hits tainted by steriods have to be taken into account....

That's a lot to account for. I say wherever Bonds ends up he ends up, and that number should be recorded. We, as baseball fans, today and tomorrow, and those fans to come, will decide how they feel. They will decide what is right. Let that be the judgement placed upon the records.