One of the wilder parts is where he realized the drugs, growth hormone in particular I believe, were improving his vision. And of course the cattle muscle enhancers definitely hits the super creepy bullseye.
Putting the whole disgraceful reality of Bonds and Co. aside momentarily, his amazing and befouled rise to superhuman status reminds me of Richie's famous post wiffle ball speculation that a prime "Running Man" era Ah-nuld would have hit around 500 homers a year. Perhaps as usual RD was right on the mark.
You must be one of the few people who still care about this story.
For the rest of us realist fans, the facts (as we know them) are: 1) Bonds is a user, and has been for a while 2) So is McGwire, Sosa, Boone and plenty of others 3) It's clear that the 98 HR race was a fraud
Didn't Palmeiro mean anything to you?
Why do you think this is important? Or news? The same game will be played...
Reporter: "Barry, will you respond to the book?" Bonds: "Get the F out of my face"
No action will be taken.
When Selig suspends Bonds for a season (this season?) on these allegations, then I wills tand up and take notice. Until then, don't bother me with such obvious tedium.
disgraceful or not...important or not...i still say he's a hell of a player. i'll admit that he juiced even if he won't. the juice enhanced his ability and perhaps led him to do what he did (maris hit more than 39 homers only once and that was his record year...was he on the juice?). but bonds still had the talent. none of us fucks who whine and moan about the integrity of the game being tarnished and all that giz had the raw talent to even make that level. but it doesn't take any talent at all to sit in the stands and make judgements.
i'm tired of the story too, but i'm probably more tired of bonds being labelled the dick because he's not friendly to the media. or i guess more accurately, deals with the media on his own terms. he (and others like him) are paid to play ball. the celebrity is a biproduct of that, but you don't have to play that part if you don't want it. he chose early on to not do it and has since been the dick. i've always thought he got a raw deal.
having said that....i have to come clean before it comes out in the press. that time i hit the fowbles house on the fly with that blast of mine...you guessed it. juice. that's why i haven't played the last couple of years. i'm ashamed of what i did. i ruined the game. i only hope it will survive this summer in light of my announcement.
You two have a nice little repartee going here. Perhaps you should vacation in Pene De Arena together.
I'll grant you that bonds may have suffered PRwise for not playing the part for the press, but as far as his legacy I think Buster Olney kind of nailed it in his column today. Bonds was one of the greats, and he more than anyone tarnished the record books because of his ability and his cheating, the same with McGwire and Sosa to an extent. These guys had so much talent, and now the records books are always going to be skewed. It's just a damn shame. It wasn't fair to the guys who held the records, and it wasn't fair to the guys who competed against the roid boys.
On an unrelated note, I can't decide which is nastier, the lamisil toe nail fungus goblin or the mucinex lung fungus troll. I think it's the toe guy though.
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One of the wilder parts is where he realized the drugs, growth hormone in particular I believe, were improving his vision. And of course the cattle muscle enhancers definitely hits the super creepy bullseye.
Putting the whole disgraceful reality of Bonds and Co. aside momentarily, his amazing and befouled rise to superhuman status reminds me of Richie's famous post wiffle ball speculation that a prime "Running Man" era Ah-nuld would have hit around 500 homers a year. Perhaps as usual RD was right on the mark.
You must be one of the few people who still care about this story.
For the rest of us realist fans, the facts (as we know them) are:
1) Bonds is a user, and has been for a while
2) So is McGwire, Sosa, Boone and plenty of others
3) It's clear that the 98 HR race was a fraud
Didn't Palmeiro mean anything to you?
Why do you think this is important? Or news? The same game will be played...
Reporter: "Barry, will you respond to the book?"
Bonds: "Get the F out of my face"
No action will be taken.
When Selig suspends Bonds for a season (this season?) on these allegations, then I wills tand up and take notice. Until then, don't bother me with such obvious tedium.
disgraceful or not...important or not...i still say he's a hell of a player. i'll admit that he juiced even if he won't. the juice enhanced his ability and perhaps led him to do what he did (maris hit more than 39 homers only once and that was his record year...was he on the juice?). but bonds still had the talent. none of us fucks who whine and moan about the integrity of the game being tarnished and all that giz had the raw talent to even make that level. but it doesn't take any talent at all to sit in the stands and make judgements.
i'm tired of the story too, but i'm probably more tired of bonds being labelled the dick because he's not friendly to the media. or i guess more accurately, deals with the media on his own terms. he (and others like him) are paid to play ball. the celebrity is a biproduct of that, but you don't have to play that part if you don't want it. he chose early on to not do it and has since been the dick. i've always thought he got a raw deal.
having said that....i have to come clean before it comes out in the press. that time i hit the fowbles house on the fly with that blast of mine...you guessed it. juice. that's why i haven't played the last couple of years. i'm ashamed of what i did. i ruined the game. i only hope it will survive this summer in light of my announcement.
that explains all the backhair
You two have a nice little repartee going here. Perhaps you should vacation in Pene De Arena together.
I'll grant you that bonds may have suffered PRwise for not playing the part for the press, but as far as his legacy I think Buster Olney kind of nailed it in his column today. Bonds was one of the greats, and he more than anyone tarnished the record books because of his ability and his cheating, the same with McGwire and Sosa to an extent. These guys had so much talent, and now the records books are always going to be skewed. It's just a damn shame. It wasn't fair to the guys who held the records, and it wasn't fair to the guys who competed against the roid boys.
On an unrelated note, I can't decide which is nastier, the lamisil toe nail fungus goblin or the mucinex lung fungus troll. I think it's the toe guy though.
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