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From the Sidelines: Steroids here to stay

Sports reporter

Barry Bonds.

His middle name might as well be Steroids.

No matter what happens from here on out: he breaks Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron's home run records, he wins a World Series, or never hits another home run, his name will be tainted with steroids. And it's not fair.

I doubt many people remember the name Alex Sanchez.

He will however be the answer to the trivia question: Who was the first Major League Baseball player to be suspended for steroids?

Now Sanchez, like many others, denied using, but that's not that point. No one remembers his name because he has hit a whopping total of six home runs.

Bonds gets all the bad attention because he is good. Society loves to watch stars build themselves up and come crashing down. I call it the "reality TV complex."

Bonds is now being "investigated" by MLB commissioner Bud Selig. The same man who many in the baseball world say knew steroid use was happening and did nothing. In fact he would have had to be the dumbest person in the world to not know. Now he is trying to put his foot down and be this tough, authoritative figure.

Hey Bud, it's too late.

It's your fault steroids are out of control, and yours only. The fact Bonds is being scrutinized more than anyone is just a sub-plot in the whole "steroids era."

When Congress had players on Capitol Hill answering questions about the drugs, slugger Mark McGwire may have hurt his Hall of Fame chances because of his reluctance to answer questions.

Now Bonds sits to take the blame for everyone, and it seems he may have gone a little kookoo.

He has cried on TV, threatened to quit, said the media "has broken him down," and the best of all, he stars in a reality show called, "Bonds on Bonds."

It would be nice if everyone just let him play baseball instead of throwing syringes at him on the field.

And it would be nice if steroids had never entered the picture.

Thanks a lot, Bud!

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