Is it Possible to Be a Better Pro Athlete at 40 than 30??

I listened all week to the sportstalk radio debate in regards to Barry Bonds, and I scanned this weeks edition of SI(which has like a 10 page excerpt from the new book). Basically only one conclusion can be drawn from the new info not only Bonds take steriods, but the guy was like a walking, talking Walgreens. Bonds had so many different pharamceuticals running through his body that I am surprised he could keep track of what he was taking.

The question thus becomes is Bonds a hall of famer. According to the new information Bonds didn't start taking steriods until after the '98 season(which was prompted by his jealousy of McGwire). Through the '98 season Bonds already had 400 homers, 3 MVP's and was widely considered to be the best player of his generation. However, in my opinion a cheat is a cheat is a cheat. Even if Bonds had hall of fame numbers before he started juicing he doesn't belong in the hall for the same reason Pete Rose doesn't. Bonds and the other juicers have made all baseball fans question the integrity of the game. Can we look at any power hitter without wondering if that guy is shooting himself full of cow hormones, combiined with insulin and human-growth hormone to create some super human.

There are people who will say that even if he took steriods it doesn't change anything because you still have to hit the ball and that roids don't make a bad player a good one. My retort to that is if they don't help why would someone take them? Bonds hit 37 homers in '98 which was his 3rd highest total(up to that point in time), 3 years later Barry hit 73 homers and was 37 years old. Guys don't put on 15 pounds of muscle in the offseason by not juicing.