Bombing Barry Bonds

I have meant to put some things in here before about Barry Bonds and his chase of the homerun record. But I just let it run its course but now that last night 08/07/07 he broke the record. I know that there is no middle ground with most on Barry you either loved him or you hated him. I have always loved his talent on the field though he could have used some etiquette lessons growing up. Then you throw in the steroid insinuations and you just get a mess. But you know something, this man has talent that only a few individuals every get and I do not feel that an asterisk is needed on this record. He achieved it just as fairly as Hank Aaron reach 715 and then retired at 755. What am I talking about, drugs ran rampant in MLB during the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Not the roids of today but the really potent drugs such as cocaine and speed. I have read stories and heard former ball players talk about the concoctions they would create by mixing different speed elements into coffee. Now you may ask how is that the same as the roids of today. Ok so it doesn’t grow muscle mass as the roids do, but when you are tired and didn’t feel like working out it picked you up so that you would push yourself beyond the limits. As they were struggling through the dog days of summer with heat indexes in the upper 90’s to 100’s you can really get run down and need a pick me up before the game and sometimes during the game and they would reach for that speed laced drinks. Hank had even put in his biography and interviews, that he had used these drinks, as have numerous other plays in their books and interviews. So my question is why did we not treat these the same as we do the roids. Is it because Barry is so brash, and not receptive to the press? That he considers the press less than animals and so they (the press) begins to spin their own little bias against Barry and it has lead us to this point that you either love or hate the man, where Hank only had more than enough time to talk with reporters and fans and in this was loved by everyone but the white supremacist people as he approach the record. Ok so I have put out there about the drug problems in the league many years ago. Now let us look at whether or nor not this is a Barry hunt to further smear his name or not. Do you know the names of any of the players who have failed drugs testing for performance enhancers? Probably not, but you can link Barry to steroids even though he has passed every test he has taken. Ok his size from when he entered the league to today. Before you do that I want you to look at a picture of yourself at around graduation either high school or college and if you are older than 35 - 40 look at yourself in a mirror if you are younger look at a family member that is over 35 – 40. Now is there a difference in your size, I am betting that there is. Now if we where athletic we might have continued to work out all through these years and some of the flub would have turned to muscle but no matter what you get bigger structure wise. Also look at somebody like Roger Clemens who has never been linked to steroids look at him when he left the U Texas to enter the major leagues and look at him today. He is very much a bigger and strong individual at 40+ then as a 20 something year old. But we have not put him under the same microscope as we have Barry. Just look around the league at different players and I think you will agree they all get bigger and much stronger. What does this prove, nothing really but I want you all before you crucify Barry that we look at the past, we look at the others he competes with and see if maybe just maybe he is not the only one doing anything wrong. May you go with the Grace Mercy and Peace of Christ.