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Goodell: B-B-Bird is the word said 06/25, 04:58 PM
"So I ask, How can Lance make the cut and Barry be excluded? "

Take the list I already made from the other TD....And I can still make a list of 20 athletes all time that are greater than Barry Bonds....

Lance did somthing that no one has even come close to doing. On the other hand, there are 3 people with over 700 HR's and soon to be more with A-rod.

I doubt Lance is the kinda guy who would use PED's in the first place. Its not like he is a free agent in a sport of million dollar babies. Where the more sacks you get, the larger your contract...He's not in baseball where the more HR's you get the better your contract. He is in a sport of where the winner is the winner and goes home to his sponsors with little to no recognition from the media or the rest of the sporting world.

He's NOT competing against himself in a incentive laden contract where if he is at 90% of the cycling competitions he gets another 20 Million. He's contracts dont state that if he stays in the lead of the race's for 80% of the time he get's another 5 Million.

Athelte's in other sports are more apt to use steriods simply becuase it could mean the difference in Millions of dollars

Goodell: B-B-Bird is the word said 06/25, 05:15 PM
" He is ahead of Ruth, Aaron, and this list of greats could go for days."

I got one name for you.....Josh Gibson. On his Hall of Fame plaque he is
credited with hitting over 800 home runs without PED's. Thats the kind of person that made my list. Not some guy who got jacked up half way through his career to make more money. I doubt he even did it to get the record....Just to get the big contract and make more money

What's funny about one of the steroid allegations is that he filed a counter suit against the person who was making the claims and they settled out of court. If the allegations were true, why would anyone settle out of court??? Barry isnt settling out of Court......Clemmens isnt settling out of court.....

Check this out Frank..........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/5033672.stm

Goodell: B-B-Bird is the word said 06/26, 11:52 AM
"The difference is simply this: Lance is a white American beating the French at their own game, Barry is a hated American beating a legend (Aaron) and a White Hero (Ruth)."

I was waiting for it and you kept it till the 3rd argument. I knew there was gonna be some reference to race. Lance has been cleared by an investigation on the steriods debacle, where as Barry has gotten indicted. But lets look at it this way....Does anyone really care about the French and their bike riding? Besides Alke, I dont know a single fan of cycling. So if they all do.....they all do it.

But as for baseball.....We are talking about misleading an entire nation. One that I care about, not France. We are talking about the biggest smear on pro sports in america. Baseball was suffering badly after the strike and if it had not been for Big Mac gettin on the juice, baseball might have been done with. Steriods in baseball is the biggest black spot on any american sport on any level.