Question of the day.

Will the Barry Bonds asterisk crowd go after Roger Clemens in the same way now, after his name too appears on the alleged list of steroid users? If not, why?

Seven Cy Young awards, two more than any other pitcher, sayeth Google. So it can't be that Bonds is just a bigger fish to fry...

Maybe the distinction is one's a batter, one's a pitcher? And the strength helps more to give an advantage to the home run slugger over the pitcher? Is the idea that Clemens had already well established his credentials prior to the alleged steroid use? Is it that Bonds was seen more as a role model for youngsters than Clemens? Or will the asterisk crowd be after Clemens now too, pushing to keep his records out of the Hall of Fame as well?

I don't know, but it sure will be fun to see if consistent logic is applied by that crowd and just how blotted up the record books get after release of the Mitchell Report showing Bonds, allegedly, was in good company (ie/ Lenny Dykstra, Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch, David Justice, Mo Vaughn, Miguel Tejada, Eric Gagne, Rondell White)*.

ASIDE: Here's a funny one off Clemens' Google page I hadn't heard:

In 1986 his 24 wins helped guide the Sox to the World Series and earned Clemens the American League Most Valuable Player award for the regular season. He also won the first of his seven Cy Young Awards.

Hall of Fame slugger Hank Aaron angered the pitcher by saying that pitchers should not be eligible for the MVP.

"I wish he were still playing," Clemens responded. "I'd probably crack his head open to show him how valuable I was."[2] Clemens remains the only starting pitcher since Vida Blue in 1971 to win a league MVP award.

And I'm pretty sure he wasn't a 'roid boy at the time.
Spirited, sure.
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* If true, I wonder what these guys -- and Clemens -- were thinking as the Bonds saga wore on. Were they sympathetic to his bearing the brunt of it as the face of the scandal, or were they somehow all for his takedown, like some of the closet gay Republicans you would see pushing for further societal discrimination against fellow gays who dare ask for equal protection of the law?