An AP article reported today that, "The San Francisco Giants will celebrate appropriately if Barry Bonds passes Babe Ruth on the career home run list. Team owner Peter Magowan and executive vice president Larry Baer vowed Tuesday to honor the organization's star player ..."
As well they should, but...
The media will attack the celebration of another Bonds record. He may have taken performance enhancing drugs (that were not against the rules).
The media joyously celebrated Kobe Bryant's 81 point game. He may be a rapi5t.
I agree with you here jay. Although the media did celebrate Kobe's score, numerous others put out the hate mail against Kobe sayign he was a ball hog. Kobe has plenty of haters too. Next to Bonds, it has to be TO, then Kobe.
As for Bonds, they should celebrate and I would too. I plan on going to the Padres opening game against the Giants and I hope Barry hits one out.
Well I agree to a certain extent as far as people will still cheer for him, but where I disagree with you is you comparing a guy who enhanced his game and a guy who #### someone. Two totally different situations. One deals with a situation outisde the sport(basketball) and the other deals with a situation inside the sport(baseball). Kobe never took stuff that enhanced his game beyond his God given talent, while Bonds did so. So these two situations are really not comparable in any way except both concern professional athletes. Mind you on Bonds, that whether baseball had a policy or not they are still required by law to follow all state and federal laws regarding banned substances. Otherwise why did the guys at the Congressional hearings want immunity in their testimonies? Because the statute of limitations says that any wrongdoing in the last 5 years is received as criminal activity. In other words these guys could have done themselves in at the hearings.
Anyone that possessed / took illegal performance enhancing drugs without a prescription is subject to prosecution. But not by MLB, or the media for that matter.
Last edited by jaysisko on March 15th at 11:31 AM.
Screw Barry Bonds and the needle sticking out of his ####. He did steroids for selfish reasons. He was jealous of McGwire and Sosa's homerun chase and he wanted to get paid (his own words). Barry is the poster child for what is wrong with sports today.....GREED and SELFISHNESS. I really hope his knee gives out on him before he has a chance to break the records. Then he can limp off crying into the sunset and hopefully never be heard from again!
Steroids do actually have some medical benefit...rehabbing muscle injuries etc. Not everybody that takes steroids does it because they want to get muscular. The Mariners have a player (Mike Morse) who got a ten game suspension for testing positive. He says he took them a year or so ago (at the time) trying to rehab from a possible career ending knee injury. Was he wrong...absolutely, he just was not as blatant as Bonds and did it for entirely different reasons.
Those aren't selfish reasons? Wanting to rehab an injury faster than other athletes can? And what do you think Bonds allegedly used "the cream" for? So he could get his knee back to playing shape and get back on the field.
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