Barry
Bonds' Lawyers File Suit
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2381381
If anyone had any doubts about Barry Bonds' steroid (and all other performance-enhancing drugs) use, they should have disappeared today. Since Bonds didn't accuse the writers of Game of Shadows of libel, I think it's pretty fair to assume that he did use. You can give me innocent until proven guilty, but I think Balco charts with his name on them are pretty guilty.
Fans should be allowed to cheer for him this year if they don't care, and should feel free to boo if they do. He doesn't seem to have lost any power or bat speed (4 home runs in just a few partially-played games this spring), so you can expect a lot of noise, whether it be positive or negative. There should not even be debate over wiping out his homers from before the drugs he used were made illegal by MLB. After that happened, however, I think MLB has a right to investigate Bonds to see if he was indeed cheating. Whether you believe taking steroids is ok or not, you can't argue that breaking the rules is ok. If Barry was only using drugs while they were legal, then it just means that he was smarter than baseball, and that sucks for baseball.
(Note to Pac Bell/SBC/AT&T Park: Don't confiscate any funny steroid signs this year)
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2381381
If anyone had any doubts about Barry Bonds' steroid (and all other performance-enhancing drugs) use, they should have disappeared today. Since Bonds didn't accuse the writers of Game of Shadows of libel, I think it's pretty fair to assume that he did use. You can give me innocent until proven guilty, but I think Balco charts with his name on them are pretty guilty.
Fans should be allowed to cheer for him this year if they don't care, and should feel free to boo if they do. He doesn't seem to have lost any power or bat speed (4 home runs in just a few partially-played games this spring), so you can expect a lot of noise, whether it be positive or negative. There should not even be debate over wiping out his homers from before the drugs he used were made illegal by MLB. After that happened, however, I think MLB has a right to investigate Bonds to see if he was indeed cheating. Whether you believe taking steroids is ok or not, you can't argue that breaking the rules is ok. If Barry was only using drugs while they were legal, then it just means that he was smarter than baseball, and that sucks for baseball.
(Note to Pac Bell/SBC/AT&T Park: Don't confiscate any funny steroid signs this year)
posted by Daniel @ 10:07 PM
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At 11:17 PM,
Daniel said…
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At 7:39 PM,
Anonymous said…
I agree completely. Actually however, steroids were actually declared against the rules by the previous commissioner in 1991, but there was no agreement with the union, so there was no way to enforce the rule.
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