Is there anyone with any doubt that Barry Bonds played/plays juiced? If you do have such doubts, please allow me to sell you some ocean front real-estate in Laos.
Lets be honest. Barry Bonds is not helping his team anymore. If he broke Aaron's record this year it probably wouldn't affect the Giant's place is the standings. The NL west is going to be the worst division in baseball again and the Giants are probably going to place 1st or second: with or without Barry. And with the absurd number of intentional walks he'll draw this year, his deteriorating defensive skills, and the less than positive media attention (not to mention his bawling on ESPN) I can't imagine anything other than ego driving him to continue to play (with denial being Alou's drive to put him in the line-up.)
In fact, how did he get the MVP award last year? I'm still scratching my head over that one.
Does anyone notice the injury plagued seasons of all these players under suspicion of being on 'roids? Palmeiro, McGuire, Bonds, Caminitti (who had the gonads to stand up and admit his mistake, as a result he paid a price, but not one imposed by the media - he died of a heart attack in 2004 related either to his alcoholism, his cocaine abuse or his steroid use.) Even Jose Canseco.
Let's go outside of baseball. Florence Griffith Joyner. Lyle Alzado.
I recommend Barry not wear any shades this year, the future isn't looking bright for him. Even if he surpasses the Babe (Who would probably still be up on Aaron if he hadn't started his career as a pitcher and didn't play half of his career in the dead ball era) or even Aaron, he'll be remembered for years as a cheat (and by the way, MLB circulated a memo in 1991 stating that players should not use performance enhancing drugs or prescription drugs for which they do not hold a prescription, so it was cheating.) Hopefully for all time.
Posted by Skywalker at April 8, 2006 09:19 AMYou Barry Bonds haters are a joke. Bonds is one of the greatest sluggers of all time and would have been dominate in any era.
Furthermore, you put up the weakest arguments trying to spin people into this that has nothing to do with steroids.
FLO-JO died of a severe seizure. How in the hell you can draw any inference between her death from a seizure and steroids useage? Secondly, Alzado died of brain cancer, and Felt it was from steroids useage, but that doesnt mean it was. People who have never touched steroids die from brain tumors all the time.
If someone smokes a ciggerattee and dies in a car crash, doesnt that mean they died from smoking? Get real dude.
You are a Barry Bonds hater and thats all your little write ups has proven. And get the facts straight, he wasnt even MVP last year, he was recovering last season. He was MVP in 2004 after hitting 45 HRs, 101 RBIs, and a .362 BA. IE, he had a MVP season and carried his team.
You wish Bonds was on the Braves. You would be defending him the same way you defend Bush. Who should be impeached, but wont because republicans dont care about justice or breaking laws.
Posted by: mooseboy84 at April 8, 2006 02:51 PMBarry Bonds?
I thought he left MLB to peddle steroids full time.
I did not realize he was still pretending to play baseball.
I know what they died from. I did my research. The point was that people know to have used steroids have a tendency to suffer injuries (he has) and die young (Alzado, Joyner and Caminitti all had soft tissue injury problems typical of steroid use and died young.)
Should, bonds would have been a great player in any era, but i don't really feel he's "dominant" at this point. I think if he'd layed off the juice he would still be dominant though.
And I don't think he would have been dominant against the likes of Walter Johnson, Don Drysdale or Sandy Koufax. In fact, he has spent a lot of his career in weak divisions (NL East in the late 80s, early 90s, NL West for the past few years.) McGuire who is also suspected of steroid use faced a lot more dominant pitching on a regular basis than Bonds did.
I don't want him on the Braves. I like having outfielders who can still run because steroids haven't destroyed the cartilage in their knees. You seen what Matt Diaz and Ryan LAnghans have been doing? If The Braves starting pitching was doing half as well as them they'd be 6-0.
I don't even know why the fans in San Francisco are defending him. Seriously, why defend the indefensible? There are plaers who have admitted use (including a rookie ont he Braves) said they are sorry and you know what...no one cares anymore. But the guys like Bonds and McGuire keep playing the dney game. Bonds gets the most attention thoughf or obvious reasons: he's still playing and he's trying to reak baseball's most hallowed record.
It has nothing to do (For me at least) with hate. I love baseball and it makes me sick to think some one could surpass Ruth or Aaron having pumped chemicals into his body to enable him to do it.
Why is it that anyime someone expresses discontent with someone's actions, left wingers always say they hate that person? I fail to see the correlation in that.
Posted by: skywalker at April 9, 2006 08:52 AM