So let me guess, the oh so clever fans of the Arizona Diamondbacks are going to boo when Barry Bonds comes up during their series this week. I don't blame you. Everyone else in the league has been doing it. You guys did it the first time the Giants came to Arizona. No sense in trying something different.
Whatever. I'm not going to try to sway ideologies and change minds. I simply want you to realize that as you boo Bonds, you boo yourself. Rest assured, Jason Grimsley isn't the first skeleton in a MLB clubhouse closet and he won't be the last. That goes for the rst of you--Cubs fans, Cardinals fans, Marlins fans...everyone. There is a Grimsley on your roster, too. You just don't know it yet. So keep booing, as long as you realize you are a greater and greater hypocrite with each passing boo.
Hypocrisy. I'll give you an example: Oakland A's fans booing Bonds vigorously then standing and cheering when he hit #714, giving him a curtain call as if he were the most beloved player in the game.
Stick to your game. Boo if you want, as long as you realize what it says about you. And if you boo, don't then stand and cheer as if you don't have a principled bone in your body.
Here is one baseball fan who has not cheered for a homerun this year, except for Big Papi hitting a game winning one on Saturday and that was b/c he is on my fantasy team.
Just to let you know, it is not being a hippocrit to cheer for a player taking steroids if the fan has no clue about it. That is called deception by the player, not hippocracy by the fan. Bonds is finished and broken down, which is a good thing. Keep booing Arizona, you know when you have been had, along with the majority of baseball fans. Only those fans who don't care about the history of the game and the players themselves will cheer on a player who will go to any length to break a record and dishonor all those who have come before him.
Only those fans who don't care about the history of the game and the players themselves will cheer on a player who will go to any length to break a record
I care about the history of the game, and I cheer for players who go to any length to break a record. I just don't care about the history of the game so much that I want to travel back in time rather than move forward. We're not going back to the offensive era in 1910, LSUfan, we're in the offensive era in 2006.
and dishonor all those who have come before him
Have you talked to "all those who have come before him"? You're making a blanket statement that steroid usage dishonors everyone else -- how?
Ultra I am not saying we need to go back to 1910, that is just stupid man. It dishonors those who have busted their #### hours and hours a day, who never used this #### before. To see some guy take a hormoneand achieve these grotesque figures and numbers that could not be achieved otherwise. McGwire, Sosa included.
I understand your socialistic mind won't ever understand that, nor can it b/c in your mind all people are one and the same, hence the term socialism. Go watch your beloved Bill Maher and listen to how we should legalize all drugs for the good of mankind. Your wasting your time here.
If you cared about the history of the game you would know better than to accept cheating on such a broad scale. If you cared about the players, you wouldn't say take what you want as long as you hit it over the fence. That sounds pretty selfish to me, but then again we have a me, me, me mentality don't we?
It dishonors those who have busted their #### hours and hours a day, who never used this #### before.
Who would that be? Hank Aaron, for all we know, used amphetamines.
Athletes can't play 150-180 games per season (163-180 counting playoffs) without resorting to some type of drug.
I don't condone cheating. I think players should adhere to the rules, and the rules say that taking these drugs is wrong. That's why I'm pushing for the legalization of these drugs.
Besides, those that take these performance enhancers work harder than those who don't. You can't just take steroids and *poof* you're a star.
To see some guy take a hormoneand achieve these grotesque figures and numbers that could not be achieved otherwise.
Again, McGwire and Sosa have yet to test positive so you're making more assumptions. Taking a hormone doesn't guarantee success; the only "stars" who have been caught or have admitted to using steroids are Bonds, Giambi, and Palmeiro (and I wouldn't even classify Giambi as a star, at least yet anyway).
If you cared about the players, you wouldn't say take what you want as long as you hit it over the fence. That sounds pretty selfish to me, but then again we have a me, me, me mentality don't we?
That's not what I'm saying (about hitting it over the fence). I'm saying, "take what you want if you want to take it." This is the United States of America, people should have the freedom to use their bodies as they wish, even in the context of sports, in which the body is nothing more than a tool anyway. If an athlete wants to put his health at risk, he should have the right to do that.
We're all being selfish in this drug controversy in one way or another. You're being selfish in that you want your game to remain pure and unadulterated by science; I'm being selfish in that I want these drugs legalized so that it leads to even more freedoms in this country.
Real Name: Bill Hicks
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