Barry Bonds is an a-hole and a cheater. He's cheated on his taxes, his wife and on the game of baseball. I don't hate him because he's black - like he likes to mention to the media whenever he gets the chance. I hate him because he's a cheater that made the all-time homerun mark a sham.
Prior to 2001, he was one of the top 5 players in baseball. After 2001, his body and statistics both ballooned and he became the best player in baseball. Pitchers were terrified of him simply because all he had to do was flick his wrist and pound the ball out of the park. If steroids hadn't entered the picture for Barry, I think a lot of those bombs that he hit into McCovey Cove would have instead been fly ball outs at the warning track.
I truly think it's a travesty that he broke Hank Aaron's 755 all-time homerun mark earlier this week. The All-time Homerun mark is greatest record in all of professional sports earlier and it sucks that Barry Bonds is now the all-time homerun champ.
I'm not big on personal stats or records because they are usually meaningless fodder for sports radio hosts to compare players across history. I do believe though that the home run record is a record that is ten stories above any other stat out there. It's a tribute to a truly remarkable athlete. Something that Mr. Barry Bonds is because of his chemically Drago-enhanced body.
Prior to 2001, Barry Bonds was on his way to becoming a Hall of Famer. Now, he's just the all-time leader in homeruns. And he's an a-hole, because he cheated to get there. Tell me there's no proof and I ask you to peruse the picture at the top of this post. No, his head is not full of helium.
Too bad that Barry won't be around when A-Rod breaks his mark in 2014. I'd rather not write what I was about to write, but I think you get the picture...
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Dude I am by far your most loyal reader!
I understand the dilemma that is Barry Bonds. He is a prick and a cheater. By the way, I'm not sure the tax allegations were proven. Despite all that, I wonder if you have taken a panoramic view of the facts at hand.
Barry is certainly not the first, and he won't be the last. He was just the most productive over the latter stages of his career than anyone else in baseball history.
Ladies and gentlemen, need I remind you about the roid rager named Jason Giambi? He was the AL MVP while he was with Oakland and then signed a huge contract with NY. He has received a tremendous financial windfall due to a substance-abuse laden career that was swept under the rug. Aside from Bonds, he has been more 'shady' than anyone. He apologized, but wouldn't elaborate on what he was apologizing for! I know he didn't break the home run record, but he wasn't demonized the way Barry is now. In fact, no one even talks about Giambi unless he opens his mouth and blurts out some incriminating information (like he did in April). What about Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire who SHATTERED the single-season home run record before Bonds did?
Blame MLB, specifically Bud Selig for essentially ignoring the steriod issue (knowing players like NL MVP Ken Caminiti were cheating) when he could have implemented a policy years ago (like the NFL). Did he refuse to cheer for Giambi and Caminiti the way he did for Bonds? Did he refuse to cheer for McGuire and Sosa? It's a slippery slope of incompetence and complacency and fans can blame MLB for that.
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