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Posted By: E, Daniel

If Bonds' cheating involved throwing games, betting on games, being a racist, a mysoginist (did I spell that right?), a drunk, hell, anything that is part of the human condition and the world we live in....I could still look at his swing, his early base-stealing, his decent glove, and say "Seriously flawed individual, but UNDOUBTEDLY a GREAT - maybe ALL TIME GREAT baseball player".

But to be honest, I have absolutely NO IDEA how good a hitter he really is, because he's been getting assistance hitting that piece of white leather for a long long time.
I know EXACTLY how good JJ's hitting abilities were, and were attested to being, and after that I make no great effort to espouse his personal integrity.

So for me Bonds, he's not great, or A great. He's enhanced.
Kind of needs his own category really, where we can put all future enhanced McGwires, Sosas, and their ilk to compare like versus like.


Daniel