So Barry Bonds is on Steroids

Big surprise. I love it how this is such a huge story, as if it wasn't completely obvious to anyone with half a clue years ago. There seem to be two primary reactions: 1) We should withhold judgment until there is some kind of further evidence. This stems from the unbelievably irritating public misconception that because you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, that principle should somehow apply a reasonable doubt standard to the court of public opinion. Of course we can judge situations without a criminal prosecution. That's called human reasoning. The people who still want to give Barry the benefit of the doubt are even dumber than the people who did before. 2) This is an abomination and Bonds should be banned from the game, banned from the HOF, and banned from everything forever. This perspective is even more annoying to me. To begin with, I don't think it's that big of a deal, because everyone in this generation is doing all they can for performance, and the line between good, clean living and evil drug cheating isn't some bright line that everyone can see and everyone knows when they are crossing. More aggravating is that people still haven't figured out that this isn't an issue of exceptional athletes who cheated. This whole generation is just riddled with performance enhancing drugs. Baseball turned a blind eye to it, so why should the players bear all the blame? It just became accepted. Unless you want to throw out three quarters of the major candidates for the HOF in this generation, it makes no sense to single out Bonds just like it made no sense to single out McGwire before. It's just a reality of this generation. So whatever. I don't have some brilliant approach to the problem. I just think the overblown reactions are tiresome. It is what it is.