Long Time Coming

So New York Yankees erstwhile (if you look at his stats over the last two years you'll see why I say erstwhile) slugger Jason Giambi has confessed to abusing steroids. See: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/sports/article.adp?id=20041202022809990009 This has been obvious to anyone who has watched players like him (and Sammy Sosa!) shrink before our very eyes now that baseball has something of a random test drug policy in place. So this isn't news to me. What is, and has been the more serious issue is what to make of all of the gigantic, unnatural statistics put up by so many star players over the past several years. In other words, if Bonds (no definitive proof of that yet, although Giambi says he got his steroids from Bonds' personal trainer), Sosa and the like were using steroids (or corked bats, for that matter, you idiot Sosa) during recent record-breaking seasons -- records that stood for decades, are the new records still legitimate? Bonds looks likely to break Hank Aaron's all time home run record this season or next -- doesn't it matter if he cheated? It must.