What is there to think about? If Barry has done something wrong which affects his entitlement to the Home Run Record, then either the government should bring charges and let him defend himself, or better yet, let Commissioner Bud Selig suspend him from baseball until the matter is resolved. It does not seem fair that he has to live under a cloud of suspicion because no one can prove anything. I have heard that his head is now two inches larger than it was 15 years ago…Well prove that steroids did that and he’s out of baseball and out of the baseball record books.
But what is being done is just UnAmerican. And Baseball is the most American. So Bud, Hank and all baseball fans congratulate the man that will be king or take him down for his improprieties. But to allow him to swat the ball out of the park, a record number of times and then not show up to honor him is nothing more than cowardice and duplicity. (Reprinted from the NEWYORKTIMES.COM comments).