I am sooooooooo tired of people talking about Barry Bonds & steroids!! Please, tell me something new!! We all know that Bonds isn’t as rare as you make him out to be, and that there are a large number of baseball players juicin!! Let me clear the air before I say what I have to say: Barry Bonds has probably used performance enhancing drugs. But you know what, I don’t give a snitches ass!! There are other players on steroids who aren’t doing even half of what he’s doing!! So what’s the damn problem? He’s better than all the others that have been using. As far as I’m concerned, people should be proud of how well he's doing!! Bonds is innocent until being proven guilty, and Major League Baseball has yet to prove otherwise. He has been found guilty in the court of public opinion, and that is not a fair or responsible way to treat anyone considering the negative reaction he's been getting all accross the country.
I don't agree that a man who is on steroids is 100% in the right and should be lauded for making history. I would prefer it if Bonds was au natural, and got his name in the record books the "right" way. I'm honored by people with the talent and physical ability to not only play baseball, but skill to hit an enormous amount of homers. And those who perpetrate, and use drugs to enhance their performance, are at fault. A portion of the criticism Bonds receives is warranted, but has not been substantiated by definitive evidence. Many speculate due to the size of his ginormous head, engorged physique, and the elevation of his game at an age when most are declining. But instead of challenging the players about drug use, I would challenge the league to institute rules and tests that can accurately detect any sort of steroids, performance enhancing drugs, and human growth hormones. Yeah that goes for you BUD SELIG!! You spineless, gutless, sham of a commissioner!! Your indecisiveness about being there when Barry Bonds ties, then breaks, the record is inexcusable and sickening. Selig, yo ass better be there when it happens!
Barry Bonds is a black man. And no, not a shuckin and jivin, 'Oh yessa massa' black man, but one of those ‘I don't care if you guys like me, I'm here to do my job' black men. I've heard people complain about the fact that he's not as personable as some athletes, but Bonds is a person before he's a San Francisco Giant. There are some people that just aren't pleasant and playing a professional sport doesn't change that about you. Baseball is 'America's Pastime.' Not ALL of America, mainly white America. People are quick to label their outright hatred for Barry Bonds on the drugs and him breaking the record, but it's not! When Mark McGuire was trying to break the single season home run record in 1998, ALL of America was cheering him on. Even though, like Bonds, it was "very clear" that he was on steroids, everyone had his back. And let us not forget that when Hank Aaron was up to break Babe Ruth's record at 714, the people in the stands booed him too. People resented the fact that a black man was breaking a prestigious record held by a white man. The racial animosity towards him and his family was severe; they received hate mail, death threats and there was a kidnapping plot against daughter who was attending college at Fisk University. Hank Aaron was forced to hire a bodyguard to protect him and his family. Sports Illustrated had this to say about Aaron's ordeal,
I don't agree that a man who is on steroids is 100% in the right and should be lauded for making history. I would prefer it if Bonds was au natural, and got his name in the record books the "right" way. I'm honored by people with the talent and physical ability to not only play baseball, but skill to hit an enormous amount of homers. And those who perpetrate, and use drugs to enhance their performance, are at fault. A portion of the criticism Bonds receives is warranted, but has not been substantiated by definitive evidence. Many speculate due to the size of his ginormous head, engorged physique, and the elevation of his game at an age when most are declining. But instead of challenging the players about drug use, I would challenge the league to institute rules and tests that can accurately detect any sort of steroids, performance enhancing drugs, and human growth hormones. Yeah that goes for you BUD SELIG!! You spineless, gutless, sham of a commissioner!! Your indecisiveness about being there when Barry Bonds ties, then breaks, the record is inexcusable and sickening. Selig, yo ass better be there when it happens!
Barry Bonds is a black man. And no, not a shuckin and jivin, 'Oh yessa massa' black man, but one of those ‘I don't care if you guys like me, I'm here to do my job' black men. I've heard people complain about the fact that he's not as personable as some athletes, but Bonds is a person before he's a San Francisco Giant. There are some people that just aren't pleasant and playing a professional sport doesn't change that about you. Baseball is 'America's Pastime.' Not ALL of America, mainly white America. People are quick to label their outright hatred for Barry Bonds on the drugs and him breaking the record, but it's not! When Mark McGuire was trying to break the single season home run record in 1998, ALL of America was cheering him on. Even though, like Bonds, it was "very clear" that he was on steroids, everyone had his back. And let us not forget that when Hank Aaron was up to break Babe Ruth's record at 714, the people in the stands booed him too. People resented the fact that a black man was breaking a prestigious record held by a white man. The racial animosity towards him and his family was severe; they received hate mail, death threats and there was a kidnapping plot against daughter who was attending college at Fisk University. Hank Aaron was forced to hire a bodyguard to protect him and his family. Sports Illustrated had this to say about Aaron's ordeal,
Is this to be the year in which Aaron, at the age of thirty-nine, takes a moon walk above one of the most hallowed individual records in American sport...? Or will it be remembered as the season in which Aaron, the most dignified of athletes, was besieged with hate mail and trapped by the cobwebs and goblins that lurk in baseball's attic?
That reaction had EVERYTHING to do with racism, discrimination, bigotry, hatred, and a disgustingly skewed superiority complex & not a DAMN thing to do with juicing.
**And all that asterisk shit is played out. Stop it.**
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