Steroids or Sour Grapes?

[gridlore]

An excellent article on the steroid allegations swirling around Barry Bonds.

"There is nothing, absolutely nothing on this green earth that you can eat drink, sniff, inject or rub on yourself that can make you hit 700 home runs in the Show. That product exists only in our collective imagination, and if he did drink the spiked Kool-Aid, so to speak, this would include Bonds."

Also, see for yourself: Barry Bonds through the years.. tell me, do you suddenly see the man ballooning up?

Bonds works like Hell, and was trained by his father (a long time major league player, and his godfather, who just happens to be Willie Mays, to hit from the time he could lift a bat. Along with 658 homeruns, he's also stolen 501 bases.. something you do not do if you are packing on the muscle artificially.

Baseball is not only about strength, but about speed and skill. Bonds has all three.

Comments

[lysana.livejournal.com]

I'm another one who sees that evidence, sad to say. His face is too puffy for the gain to be working out alone, and he didn't get those chipmunk cheeks to that level until the last six to eight years of his career. He wouldn't gain fat in his face while building muscle on his body if he did it with healthier, saner methods. And his arms jumped in size between 1998 and 2000 in a fashion too fast for mere working out.