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Posted By: jay behrens

Lasik improves your eyesight. Eyesight is one, if not the most important things a batter needs. You need a fair amount of muscle mass to be able to hit HRs. Why shouldn't someone that has trouble putting on muscle mass be able to use steroids to correct a physialogial problem that won't let them put on a lot of mass when they can do somethign enhance their eyesight? Where do you draw the line as to what is an acceptable enchancement and what isn't? Is the defining line when the enhancement allows to chase hallowed records? No one is too worried about pitchers on steroids, but they howl bloody murder about batters using them. That is basically what it has boiled down to and it's utterly rediculous.

Bonds may be enhanced, but he put up numbers against competion that is far superior competition (steroid enhanced pitchers, Blacks and other foriegn players, etc) to what Ruth, Cobb, etc ever had to face. Those guys were great and they would be great today too, but they wouldn't be putting up the numbers they did back then if they were playing today.

Jay

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