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I think that the steroid controversy is a dark cloud that will hand over Major League Baseball for a long long time and severely taints America's past-time. One of the reasons that baseball has been so loved is the statistics and records that can be recited by elderly men as well as children. Hank Aaron's 755 home runs, Ted Williams 400 batting average, Joe Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak and Cal Ripken's 2,632 consecutive game appearances. Some of these records may never be broken, and others most likely be broken in the Summer of 2007. That record that I am referring to is Hank Aaron's 755 career home runs and the the person who is breaking it is suspected steroid user, Barry Bonds.

This record should be a monumental occasion and all that is great about baseball, but instead most of America (and the world) will either not care, or think that this record is tainted and deserving of an asterisk anytime mentioned in record books. Bonds has not officially been proven to have taken steroids, but I think the signs are evident and one day pretty soon the truth will come out and major league baseball will have an enormous black eye to deal with.

I am by no means ensuing that Bonds is the only major leaguer on steroids either. It is a known problem (or has been a known problem in the past)and other players such as Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa will always have doubt cast upon them as to if their statistics ,for which baseball is famous for, is the result of hard work and talent? or is the result of human performance enhancements? We may never know the full truth, but until we do, and perhaps after we do, the game of Major League Baseball will be sullied, and any record being broken will have a big question mark hanging over it.

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