Talkin' Baseball, 'cause we never really played it very well

One hears a great deal of jabber in the wake of this SI article about Bonds/Steroids about should he be booted from the game a la Rose, Shoeless Joe et al, or should he have his records removed or ignored a la Maris' 61* or just what on Earth are we to do about this Bonds fellow?

This is not strictly a sports opinion website, but our slugline does mention sports, so the Editorial Board of The Eight have developed the following official position on the 'Bonds Thing.' To wit:

Let him keep playing, let him juice if he thinks he can do it without getting caught, and one of two things will happen, MLB will catch him, and he'll get tossed, or he'll catch Ruth and then maybe (probably not, we'd wager,) Aaron. Here're two reasons that go a long way to explaining why this is our official position:

1) The unanimous consensus of the board held that Ruth would have taken steroids if they'd had them then. He ate like a pig to give himself bulk to hit more home runs, because he understood better than anyone before that time the connection between the two.

2) Records were made to be broken. Bob Beamon doesn't hold the long jump record anymore, the 100m record keeps getting ticked down, those low-TV-rated skis at the Olympics get a little waxier every four years. Athletes are getting better due to Sport Science and Sport Medicine, not to mention the ability to view one's swing in eight different speeds on five different cameras in hi-def. If you want to keep the old days alive, walk six miles in the snow to work, don't bitch about a guy who plays baseball for a living.

That's that about that, but we did, at the Board meeting, have one other observation about this and all situations like it: The greatest thing about these sorts of stories is watching to see how many sports reporters cannot consistently and correctly pronounce the word 'asterisk.' Check it out and see if it doesn't provide a certain glee akin to the dread we all feel when Bush says 'nook-you-lar'.

--Full Disclosure-- This is a Late Update, reason number 1 above has been edited for clarity and the removal of stupidity, ours.