Barry Bonds

For example, I'd say Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez would be superstars without PED's, and that Mark McGwire probably wouldn't be, but can I truly know for sure? 

Of course I can't. 

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Call me soft but I am really getting tired of the all-forgiving, Mannywood-worshiping, sissymary “baseball realists” infecting the airwaves and newspapers of late. Earlier today, Jon Heyman of si.com published an article measuring the merits, Hall of Fame credentials and perspective eligibility of such noted sleazebags as ARoid, Manny, Barry and (God-help-us-all) Roger Clemens. He created his own convenient and self-righteous gauge, judging players on the extent and longevity of actualized or alleged sleaziness. Luckily, I wasn’t the only reader with a “what the deuce!?” reaction. As mole57 from New Jersey points out, it shouldn't matter when or for how long a player used steroids:

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officially gone postal.

The list of all-star players who have been revealed to be using steroids: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Andy Pettitte, Jason Giambi, Miguel Tejada, Alex Rodriguez, now.......MANNY RAMIREZ.

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Alex "A-Roid" Rodriguez has to be one of the dumbest athletes in modern sports. He's getting paid $33 million per year, as part of a 52-year contract, so he's set for life. Yet he resorts to using steroids. Why? He clearly has it all. He's already on pace to break Bonds' home-run "record." Besides that, he's known as the best offensive hitter in the game, when healthy. The staff and myself racked our brains over why the slugger feels he needed the extra edge. Having been stumped, we came up with 10 reasons why he doesn't need steroids, in hopes of convincing the vain ballplayer to lay off the juice.

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ment is expected to be made on Sunday.  Another great move by Theo!! 

Sox interested in Barry Bonds? – Nope.  I guess Bonds’ agent sent a letter to the Sox and 29 other major league teams in an attempt to get him a job for this season.  The Red Sox passed.  I don’t think we’ll see

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As a baseball fanatic, how refreshing is it that on an NFL sunday, baseball is center stage as the Boston Red Sox attempt to complete an amazing return from the dead, again.  The team with a history of choking is now on the edge of becoming one of the greatest comeback teams in history.

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ning to Big Schill? Does anything he says really matter anymore? I mean, the guy has sounded off on Barry Bonds, Kobe Bryant, steroids, Roger Clemens ... and during that time he's thrown exactly zero pitches. So why are we paying attention?

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And of course there is one Barry Bonds who sits waiting for a phone call from an interested party. Bonds, however, comes with his own set of problems and would seem to be the complete antithesis of David Ortiz, which brings me to my final point.

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I'm a Ryan Braun fan, and it's not hard to see why. He homered tonight for the fourth time in two games--two two-HR games in a row. Ever since he was brought up early last season, that's what he's done: hit the heck out of the ball. Doubles (he was second in the league last year with 13), home runs (his 34 last season put him in fifth place in the NL, and his 43 through the past two seasons is the fastest pace ever), both of these in spite of fewer than 500 ABs last year.

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As the hurricane of destruction that is Roger Clemens' personal and professional life gathers strength like a tropical storm reaching the balmy waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the storm has enveloped its latest victim: country star Mindy McCready. The Daily News reported last week that Clemens had carried on a decade-long affair with McCready, a family friend, ever since she was fifteen and he twenty-eight. (I should add that I'm following the media designation of McCready as a "star," even though I couldn't pick her out of a lineup of McSteamy, Matthew McConaghey, and the McDonald's McRib. Then again, I don't really follow country music--more to the point, I run far, far away from it at every opportunity).

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will the offense come from?

For the first time in 15 years, the Giants will play a season without Barry Bonds in the lineup. Early word from Giants camp is that the clubhouse is looser and th

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y were not able to do when Bonds was there.

 For 15 years, the focal point of the Giants was Barry Bonds.  No one knew who was on the Giants because they were never able to sign free agents with big names because they did not want anyone interferring with Bonds image.  Or Bonds did not want anyone to take the spotlight off of him.  When they did sign free agents, it was underachievers.  The Giants let Jeff Kent get away because he was getting in the way of Bonds.  Papers quoted the team as "Bonds and the 24 other players."  Since 2002, the Giants were never able to contend because they spent all their money on Bonds.  These are new days now.

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       WHO WILL PLAY? 

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens are two people that changed the sport of baseball forever.  One might look at this statement and say, “Of course they did.  Bonds took down the most prestigious records in baseball by hitting more dingers than good Old Hank.  He has given the sport more publicity and has made it more popular.  Clemens is a superhero for all of us.  A man whose career was falling apart, quickly changed turned it around and showed the 40’s were the new 20’s.  With all those Cy Young’s, he is one of the best pitchers in history.”  I would tell you, “Nope, that isn’t how they changed it.  That is how they ruined the sport.”  You would then look at me funny and walk away.  Go ahead, walk away from the truth.  The truth is these men have tainted this sport and have embarrassed the players in the generation before them.

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And like the Barry Bonds record, unfortunately this season is blemished with the cheating allegation, imposed fines, and a docked draft pick. Whether you believe that Patriots’ 16-0 record is legitimate or not, no football fan wants the record held by a team surrounded by uncertainty or at least the perception of uncertainty. You could be the most staunch defender of the Patriots and Bill Belichick and even though you know in your heart of hearts that they did no wrong, you still resent the suspicion and wish it didn’t have to be discussed every time the issue of legitimacy arises. 

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t sports and yet still retain credibility as a sports information resource.

Between Michael Vick, Barry Bonds, and Tim Donaghy, the sports world is doing enough to turn itself into a circus.

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True to his word, the Senator has indeed named names (Barry Bonds used steroids!? You're kidding!), but for anyone who's even passively been following the Fall of the House of Bonds over the last two years, the 'revelation' that both the MLB and the Player's Association are to blame for nurturing the steroid culture could hardly be called a shock. Look, guys, we get it: the mid-90's were tough on the game, and so when Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire all of a sudden started hitting baseballs into North Korean airspace, nobody wanted to point out just how improbable the whole situation was. Sadly, that collective ignorance looks worse and worse as the climate continues to change, and the backpedalling and fingerpointing from all responsible grows more and more absurd. In the report, Senator Mitchell recommends that in lieu of punishment, the league should adopt recommendations to prevent performance-enhancing drug abuse from continuing into the future, and move on. This, of course, would be an actual solution, and will therefore not happen. Instead, we'll have saber-rattling and punishments handed down from those who should be owning their own responsibility in the whole matter.

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