Two things that comes to mind whenever people say the name Barry Bonds is the most homeruns ever hit in a players major league career and the use of steroids. As we all know or at least should know Barry Bonds is the all-time leader in homeruns with 762 in his career. It only took Bonds 22 years to hit those 762. Most players are luck to hit 500 in that amount of time. Questions began to rise when Bonds was not only breaking records but putting stats up such as. Although 1998 belonged to Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire who are also players that took steroids to have an explosive season setting records in homeruns in a season and slugging percentage. Bonds in 2001 emerged hitting 73 homeruns in one season, which happens to be an MLB record. Bonds said that he was not satisfied with breaking the single season he wanted to set records in everything. Barry Bonds went on to do so that season setting records for slugging percentage by slugging .863 and setting the record for homeruns per at bat with 6.52. Not only the stats but just by him saying that he wants to set records in everything is enough to tell you that a player is willing to do anything to set those records, even if it is cheating and taking steroids. What is a record if you had to cheat to get it? Well finally the MLB looked into Barry Bonds …show more content…
What is baseball if everybody is going to cheat, it is just a giant game of record breaking cheaters. Records mean nothing if you had to cheat to get your name at the top of the list. Long term effect of steroids is players are going to start relying on the steroids to heal their bodies. So when the drug starts to tear down their body when they are older what are they going to turn to? Steroids! Is it really worth the 7 or 8 years of taking the PED? What do players really get out of it? Yeah players break records and are at the top at one point, but once players get caught and retire or are banned from the league they go straight from the top to the bottom. They get bad reputations, for example Alex Rodriguez known as A-Roid and he will always be known as that for as long as he lives and maybe after that. Barry Bonds will always be known as the homerun leader but with the help of steroids. With the use of steroids players are already bigger than what they use to