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At a time, I would have agreed with you about the racism behind the Bonds hatred. But I don't think that's the case anymore - I think people just don't like Barry Bonds. My main source of changing my mind was seeing how Mark McGwire has been treated since his Congressional testimony. This guy was the sports media's darling in 1998 and could do no wrong. Eight years later he's a pariah. And there's less evidence that he doped than that Bonds did.
Take away the possible cheating, and you may not see people excited that Bonds is going to break the record, but I really doubt you'd see too many people hostile about it.
