Talk:Baseball HOF debate/@comment-93339-20060312193504

I can answer the question as to why he cheated. In 1998, McGwire and Sosa came onto the scene. They were inferior hitters to Bonds that were using steroids to take all the limelight. Bonds knew he was better than them so he tried to level the playing field by using steroids himself. When he leveled it, he rose to a whole new level. This question has been asked before in spite of what you said and this is the consensus answer.