Saturday, June 16, 2007

Performance Enhancers 

So Barry Bonds is going to deserve an asterisk when he tops Hank Aaron's home run total because steroids -- then legal and permitted by MLB -- enhanced his performance. When I was a kid we had Wonder Bread that helped kids grow twelve ways. Neither Babe Ruth nor Hank Aaron had all the nutritional advantages of the younger generation. (And I wonder if Bovine Growth Hormones or whatever else it is that is causing girls to mature so much younger gives an athletic advantage.) Does this mean that anybody who beats an older record after having grown up on Wonder Bread deserves an asterisk?

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