Why Clemens and Bonds Are Victims of The Era

 
As a beginning note to this article, I'd just like to say I could write for days about this topic.  This is just a brief overview of why I can't blame those named in the Mitchell Report more than the Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Selig. It was a sad day watching Roger Clemens sit before a Congressional committee and denying allegation after allegation and defending attack after attack on his name being reported in Senator Mitchell's report of steroids in baseball. What might have been even sadder is watching a man in San Francisco named Barry Bonds achieve baseball immortality in breaking the single greatest record in all of sports under scrutiny of his alleged steroid use.  (Let's keep in mind I cannot stand Barry Bonds as a person, but let's be honest... It's a little sad.)   What should have been the happiest moment in any man's life cannot be enjoyed to the fullest extent because of the fact that a homerun ball that should rest on a pillow in Cooperstown, instead rests in a ... [link]

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