Is it time for MLB to bust out the asterisk’s

It is sad to say that the steroids era of baseball has made the MLB record book a total and complete joke. For example seven of the 14 best single season home run records are by players of the steroids era. Of those seven seasons four of them were performed by admitted or caught steroids user, while the other two were performed by Sammy Sosa who is highly suspected of being a steroids user.

Let us take a quick look at the best single season home runs records

1. Barry Bonds-73-2001
2. Mark McGwire- 70-1998
3. Sammy Sosa-66-1998
4. Mark McGwire-65-1999
5. Sammy Sosa-64-2001
6. Sammy Sosa-63-1999
7. Roger Maris-61-1961
8. Babe Ruth-60-1927
9. Babe Ruth-59-1921
10. Jimmie Fox (1932), Hank Greenberg (1938), Ryan Howard (2006), and Mark McGwire (1997)-58

For those of us with kids, is that a list you ant to show your children? For the old timers out there is that how you want Roger Maris to be remembered? Is that what this game is all about? No of course not, and since there is no other way to make these tainted home runs to go away Bud Selig needs to whip out the asterisk’s.

Messing with history is tough, these guys actually hit those home runs, and there is a skill involved in hitting a MLB fastball, a skill that steroids doesn’t help. For example I could take steroid and still strike out on the medium fastball setting at my local batting cages. However, the way these records are clustered together by years known to be full of steroid use. Therefore the record book should contain an asterisk that says *Used performance-enhancing drugs