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The poll results are not scientific, though the Register takes steps to minimize the possibility that individuals vote multiple times.

Here are the results of the most recent poll, and some reader comments. To see this week’s question, go online to napavalleyregister.com.

Question of the week: Is Barry Bonds a baseball hero?

Total votes: 635

No — 406 (64 percent)

Yes — 229 (36 percent)

“Every record he has or will set will be tainted due to steroid allegations. I believe he used steroids and his records should not be valid.”

“Barry Bonds deserves every record he has. If you take away his, then the slate must be wiped clean up to the date of testing. Who knows what all the other record holders were on when they played ball. Barry Bonds is one of the greats.”

“I feel Bonds is a great athlete regardless of what he has done to boost that gift. A hero? No.”

“Heroes are people who persevere in the face of adversity. Heroes are not those who succeed through advances in pharmacology and technology.”

“He works real hard at what he does best, as have others in the past. Eye and hand coordination cannot be bought or contrived. Other so called ‘heroes’ have been drunkards, nasty, illiterate, foul-mouthed and more. Hero he may not be, but a great ball player he has been and still is.”

“Have you ever seen a statue for a cynic or a hypocrite? No! A hero is someone people can look up to. Not someone whose attitude taints what they have become.”

“Barry Bonds is the best baseball player that ever lived. He’s made 444 different pitchers famous … He’s withstood a federal investigation, a spiteful sports media and an army of puritanical fans. Bonds has never been charged or failed any tests, so any allegations from four to five years ago are still just allegations today. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and Cap Anson are cheaters. They never faced a black or Latin player and padded their stats in a bogus league.”

“I don’t think of Barry as the greatest guy in the world, but his baseball skills are second to none … I do think of him as one of baseball’s greats, and there should be no asterisk next to his name unless it is proven that he’s been hopped up the entire time, and I don’t see that happening.”

“Pete Rose bet on baseball, abused his wife and kids and lied for years about it. Babe Ruth was a mean drunk and a general all-around not-nice guy. Sammy Sosa and other home run hitters played with corked bats. Countless players in the ’60s and ’70s took amphetamines, which were and still are illegal. Record-holding pitchers threw spitballs. Shall we mention the Black Sox scandal? Barry Bonds, while usually surly and uncooperative with the press, may have taken a steroid that was 1. legal and 2. not banned or even addressed by baseball at the time. Dozens or even hundreds of professional baseball players took the same and similar drugs … With baseball’s rich history of liars and cheats, to single out Bonds is farcical.”