On steroids and supermen

Sammy Sosa hit his 600th home run last night. Good for him. I can remember seeing him at Wrigley Field, running out at the beginning of the game to his spot in right field, to the adoration and applause of the Cub faithful.

How quickly he fell from grace. Out of baseball a year, he comes back and reaches the plateau that only 5 or 6 others have reached in baseball. A certain hall of famer based on the home runs he hit.

But what about the steroids thing? What about Mark McGuire and other "sluggers" who are known steroid abusers?

I hear this discussed on sports talk radio all the time.

Are their records "tainted." Does someone who used performance enhancing drugs deserve to be in the hall of fame?

Does the name Barry Bonds ring a bell?

I go back and forth on this. On the one hand I feel strongly that the playing field should be level when it comes to how you perform in any sport. Outside of lifting weights and running, etc, each player must play based upon his natural effort and physical ability.

On the other hand, whether you are a monster or not in physical size (like watching Bonds go from a skinny 20 year old to a man/superman in his later years of baseball) a person still has to have the ability to hit a 95 mile and hour fast ball.

He still has to have the hand/eye coordination to do so.

Of course with Bonds it makes it hard because he can appear to be so obnoxious in public.

Anyway, only time will reveal how history views Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa.

Just some thoughts.