http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/barry_bonds_autograph.jpg Remember this guy? The five tool player? This picture was from 1990. He'd be lost in the shadow of the current Bonds.
BeenThere, you continually post the same drivel about Bonds, his walk totals, steroids don't improve hand-eye coordination, blah, blah, blah. Your boy Barry's walk totals jumped starting in 2000...yeah, when his body morphed from Pee Wee Herman into Godzilla. MLB umps don't call a strike zone anywhere close to what it's supposed to be...the zone enjoyed by Barry is microscopic...he gets the Michael Jordan treatment when it comes to his strike zone. You remember your boy MJ...he walked more than a group of door to door Jehovahs Witnesses selling salvation, and never had it called....the strike zone called on Bonds is about the size of a teacup, low and inside, right in his wheelhouse. Anything outside of that, it's a ball. He wears more armor than an NFL linebacker, crowds the plate, but has only been hit with a pitch on avg. of less than 5 times per year for 20 years. Yes, he's protected by the powers that be at MLB...you'd be a fool not to recognize that.
I don't think that anyone here has ever stated that steroids help your hand-eye coordination, though there are people researching that right now. What steroids do is increase your strength, increase your batspeed, and add distance to the balls you hit...meaning more HR's. Barry is one of those guys blessed with excellent hand-eye coordination...it's a no brainer that adding on a tremendous amount of strength gain = increased HR totals, which = $18 million bucks a year to play ball.
To your boy Barry, this is all a big soap opera. Listening to his interviews, he obviously looks at himself as being bigger than the game, and he's going to push the envelope with impunity as long as he thinks he can get away with it. It's amazing to look at players that, a year or two ago, looked like Charles Atlas...now, they look like the guy that had sand kicked in his face at the beach. Sosa shriveled up and quit. I haven't seen the rapidly shrinking Raffy Palmeiro since he stubbornly insisted that he didn't know how the Winstrol wound up injected into him. Bret Boone and Pudge Rodriguez look like batboys.
But there's your boy Barry...all 230 lbs. of him, after he finally decided to grace his team with his arrival, telling the media with a straight face that he's always been fat, and always been big...knowing darn well that none of them would mention that he was about 175 lbs. for years...until he hit his massive growth spurt...and why won't they mention it? Your boy Barry has a penchant for pulling the race card when he's backed into a corner, and the reporters know the story is gone when he shuts up. He's having a ball with it...he's retiring, maybe not, just having fun jerking their strings...knowing full well that no one can prove if he's taking an illegal supplement or not. MLB doesn't test for HGH. MLB can't test for designer steroids and/or masking agents. Why do you think your boy Barry backed out of the World Tournament? Word came out that the players would be tested to Olympic standards, which include the above items, and other supplements that MLB can't detect...and Barry ran so fast backing out of the games, you would have sworn he was Deion Sanders in a windsprint.
Beenthere, I've been reading these boards for years...probably in the ballpark of seven years, and I've read a ton of your posts. You're opinionated...that's ok. You're a huge Bonds fan...that's ok, too. You have a nasty habit of taking digs at people, then saying "who, me"? and acting innocent about it...I can overlook that, because you're basically a rude Chicagoan with a chip on his shoulder, and I tend to ignore rude peole with chips on their shoulder, because they usually aren't worth me wasting my time. True to form, you have a dig to send to people that make 40 grand/year...and when someone calls you on it, as usual, you'll play dumb, and say, "who, me"?
Yeah, you're not asking your boy Barry to go out with your daughter, and, as you so eloquently stated in the past on this same subject, you really don't care if Bonds is cheating or not.
So, I'll throw this at you a different way. You've got one son that played at Miss. St., and another that may or may not still be playing college ball somewhere. Here's the deal...your kids decide the only way to have a shot at pro ball is to do steroids. Are you in favor of that?
Part 2...bear with me...your kids make the majors...and get to the point where 1 monster year can get them the mega contract they want that would provide financial security for the rest of their lives. For whatever reason, Bonds hooks them up with a designer cocktail of steroids and HGH,"clear", and "cream".
First, they get popped in a test, because the mix was wrong. Are you humiliated, or do you think that they were justified in doing it? Second, one of your kids has a massive stroke linked to the steroid usage, and dies.
Knowing that Bonds was the middle man, does that change your attitude about him? Or does he still exhibit Boy Scout-like qualities, and everythings ok, because Barry has tremendous hand-eye coordination, and it really doesn't matter to anyone in the world what he's doing?
I think I know what your answer is going to be...
