As a Barry Bonds fan, I just want to say well done to the SF Chron reporters for keeping their freaking mouths shut. Go to prison for a couple of years if you have to. As long as Bonds does not do time, I don't care who takes the fall.
i agree with you. where's the book about mark mcgwire? theres hardly ever a reason to feel sorry for a person who makes millions of dollars, but i feel sorry for barry bonds.
Steroids does not make you a better baseball player. It does not improve your hand eye coordination. That's what makes you hit the ball. You can't really really say that Barry Bonds cheats.
Uh... no I guess you can't. Bulletproof case you present. I find myself swayed and I wonder why anyone is going to jail since no rules were broken.
Steroids can certainly improve your bat speed. They can help you recover from injury faster. They can give you more endurence to perform over a 162 game season. Over his first ten years in the league, Barry hit 40 or more HRs 1 time, over the second ten years, he did it 7 times. In two of the three years he failed to reach 40 HRs in that span, he missed 60 or more games, and had he played in the same number of games he averaged in the other 7 years, he was on pace hit 40 in those seasons as well. So, in the first half of his career, he sets a 40 HR pace 10% of the time, and in the second half he does it 90% of the time. I'm sure it was just the development of his hand-eye coordination though. before: after: He was probably on a rigorous face exercising program to get the extra advantage of having a giant size head.
HGH makes your head grow... and It makes congress do double takes. It looks like it makes people forget the white guys on real 'roids. Totally causes you to recover from the whole "MVP" label. And it gives your fans a case of blindness it seems. Dude, we're just pickin' - I hope Barry is exhonorated.
come on. i think the bonds witch hunt is out of control too. i think he's bearing an unfair amount of the burden in this whole issue. but if steroids don't make you better, why are these guys taking them? look at caminiti's numbers with steroids. look how his performance changed. it makes very good hitters into great hitters. it doesn't change the fact that it takes eye-hand coordination to hit the ball...but it improves bat speed and creates greater force on the ball as you hit it. this is only logical. it turns you into a power hitter, even if you were a marginal longball hitter before. and it takes power hitters and makes them look like superman.
Steriods DO make you hit the ball farther. There is no other way to explain Sosa getting 60+ for three years in a row, McGwire with 70, and Bonds with over 70 when he never hit more than 50 in a season. All of these records came when these guys power numbers should have been regressing.
Three Rivers Stadium and Candlestick Park was not a HR hitters park. Just think, if Bonds played at SBC Park his entire career, he would be approaching the world HR record. No, Hank Aaron does not own the world HR record.
Anyone who thinks Bonds didn't do steroids, when he has already admitted using the "cream" and the "clear", is an idiot. And it's not like he's in isolation - McGwire and Sosa have the same cloud hanging over their heads now, they just no longer play baseball. Say what you want, but Bonds is the guy breaking all the home run records, so he's the poster boy for the steroid era. In the end, Bonds is a cheater. If you want to root for someone who's cheated his way to the top, so be it. To me, he'll always be the guy who couldn't throw out Sid Bream trying to score from 2nd on a line drive to left.
Umm. You seem to be under the misguided opinion that they are covering for Bonds or something. You do realize that these two guys have created a lifetime's worth of trouble for him? They are covering for whoever it was that leaked the grand jury information, and to a lesser extent, themselves. Not Bonds.
anyway, back on topic, there has to be some sort of protection for the grand jury process. these guys are going to jail not because of their book, because they didn't give up the person who broke the law to give information for the book. charlie palilo was ranting on this subject yesterday and I usually agree with him but this time I thought he was wrong. he and a few callers were trying to make this out to be the government going after the media but its not really about that.
