Barry Bonds Apologist, what now?

[Gil Dobie]

5 positive test for steriods. No wonder his head grew like a water balloon stuck on the faucet. xeekx

Time to put Bonds into the catagory with Clemens, McGwire, Sosa and Canseco in the ship-o-fools steroid lineup wishing they were in the hall of fame and not the hall of shame.

USA Link (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2009-02-04-Bondsside_N.htm)

Prosecutors seek to admit five positive drug tests from Bonds from 2001-2006 — three administered by BALCO and two by Major League Baseball. In documents unsealed Wednesday, the government calls the chain of custody in regard to Bonds' urine samples "completely reliable," and that the defense "provided no evidence the samples did not belong to Bonds or that there were tangible problems with the testing processes."

[JMU DJ]

Apparently the judge had noted that she ( it is a she right?) was planning on throwing out three of the positive drug test. I can only imagine that if she has said three they would be the BALCO ones... that still leaves the two from MLB and also recordings about steroid use. Plenty of evidence there.

[Syntax Error]

Disgusting that maybe this Bonds guy knew he tested positive repeatedly but flat out lied to the public about it. Did he actually think it would never come out? Asterisk nothing, if convicted, ban him from baseball and disallow his records.

[jstate83]

5 positive test for steriods. No wonder his head grew like a water balloon stuck on the faucet. xeekx

Time to put Bonds into the catagory with Clemens, McGwire, Sosa and Canseco in the ship-o-fools steroid lineup wishing they were in the hall of fame and not the hall of shame.

USA Link (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2009-02-04-Bondsside_N.htm)

Prosecutors seek to admit five positive drug tests from Bonds from 2001-2006 — three administered by BALCO and two by Major League Baseball. In documents unsealed Wednesday, the government calls the chain of custody in regard to Bonds' urine samples "completely reliable," and that the defense "provided no evidence the samples did not belong to Bonds or that there were tangible problems with the testing processes."


AHH.................. xlolx

#1) Didn't Barry Bonds say from day #1 and everyday up til now that he used the clear, thinking it was flaxseed oil, but was later found out to be the new roid gel/cream/whatever.

#2) If Barry Bond's did test positive for this stuff on any MLB test and nothing was done including notifing Barry Bonds, who is looking bad:
BarryBonds who has said for years he didn't know the stuff was roids.
OR
MLB for looking the other way at positive test league wide, did nothing, and got the roid mess all over MLB today unchecked.

#3) This is the same old stuff that has been released in one way or another to the public.
There is nothing new here.xlolx
Same old pile of shat packaged in a different look and smell.xlolx

I'm no Barry Bonds apologist.
I just don't get myself worked up over something as meaningless as roid's in sport's.
I'll leave getting high blood pressure over people none of us know to ya'll. xlolx
Bonds can get convicted, spend the next 2 year's cleaning trash cans, and still leave prison in a limo with enough money in his bank account to wipe his arse with $100 bill's daily for the rest of his life.
Why am I gonna get worked up over some mega rich person's problems that don't affect me.

[Gil Dobie]

Hank Aaron should be the Home Run King, and Barry Bonds the Asterisk King. xthumbsupx

[813Jag]

Doesn't MLB deserve a lot of the redicule as well. They look like dumba$$es in this whole fiasco as well. They sit there with that I don't know what's going on look on their faces. If you want to wipe Bonds on then that's fine, but you seriously need to look at everything done in the last few years. Baseball sucks now because MLB sold out for the long ball. This whole issue is why I only watch a few games.

The game of pro baseball is so far from the glory days, I say let all those dummies wreck their bodies.

[Gil Dobie]

Doesn't MLB deserve a lot of the redicule as well. They look like dumba$$es in this whole fiasco as well. They sit there with that I don't know what's going on look on their faces. If you want to wipe Bonds on then that's fine, but you seriously need to look at everything done in the last few years. Baseball sucks now because MLB sold out for the long ball. This whole issue is why I only watch a few games.

The game of pro baseball is so far from the glory days, I say let all those dummies wreck their bodies.

The steroid years, is the Bud Selig Steroid Era afterall. xsmhx

[813Jag]

The steroid years, is the Bud Selig Steroid Era afterall. xsmhx
And we all know Selig is pretty much an idiot.

[JMU DJ]

The steroid years, is the Bud Selig Steroid Era afterall. xsmhx


And we all know Selig is pretty much an idiot.

He pretty much ruined baseball with his decisions in the 90's... the BoSox's (as much as it pains me to say so) helped bring interest back and the players in the league appear to be legit. No players with huge domes running around now that McGuire, Sosa, Bonds, Clemens, Palmeiro, etc are no longer around. Can the league be brought up on charges for brushing this stuff under the rug?

Article from last year (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/sports/baseball/09drugs.html), but if Selig and the head of the Players Union lied, I'd love to see them brought up on the same perjury charges... no one should be exempt from the rules no matter what their role/power is in any organization.

[813Jag]

He pretty much ruined baseball with his decisions in the 90's... the BoSox's (as much as it pains me to say so) helped bring interest back and the players in the league appear to be legit. No players with huge domes running around now that McGuire, Sosa, Bonds, Clemens, Palmeiro, etc are no longer around. Can the league be brought up on charges for brushing this stuff under the rug?

Article from last year (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/sports/baseball/09drugs.html), but if Selig and the head of the Players Union lied, I'd love to see them brought up on the same perjury charges... no one should be exempt from the rules no matter what their role/power is in any organization.
that's my point everybody who's guilty should suffer. I used to be a huge baseball fan but it's not much that gets my attention anymore. I guess that's why I enjoyed the Rays last season, it was something different.

[bluehenbillk]

The two most damning things about Bonds are #1- The taped conversation with his trainer Greg Anderson detailing the masking of his steroid use & #2- The data from New Era about the increase in Bonds' hat size, grown adults heads don't naturally get bigger by 4 sizes.

[ASUG8]

Hammerin' Hank is the HR king, end of story.....

I have to admit, watching Sosa and McGuire go at it for the home run title was great, even though they were juiced. McGuire had a baseball swing like Tiger Woods.

[Thunderstruck84]

I think Bonds is getting unfairly singled out but people have to realize that when you hold the two most hallowed records in sports, made hundreds of millions while doing it, and handled it with the abrasiveness of 40 grit sandpaper you're going to get singled out.

I don't think baseball is any worse off for it though, if memory serves me MLB has set attendance and revenue records each of the last 3 seasons and has reestablished itself as second only to the NFL in popularity. For better or worse, the roided up McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds have a lot to do with that. The strike in 1994 did a lot more to hurt baseball's popularity than steroids has, in fact steroids were a contributor to baseball's rejuvenation.

FWIW, Hank Aaron and Roger Maris are still the home run kings in my book.

[ASUG8]

I don't think baseball is any worse off for it though, if memory serves me MLB has set attendance and revenue records each of the last 3 seasons and has reestablished itself as second only to the NFL in popularity. The strike in 1994 did a lot more to hurt baseball's popularity the steroids has.



That's exactly when I stopped watching MLB - when those boneheads were poormouthing about how they couldn't feed their families on league minimum of $300K after playing baseball for either $0 or triple A wages all their lives up to that point I tuned out. I'm digressing, because pro athlete compensation could be several threads alone. xnonono2x