Bonds exposed: Shadows details superstar slugger's steroid use

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Timing!!!

There weren't a lot of people hooting and hollaring about Bonds being on steroids when he was approaching 70 HRs. A lot of this started after the hearing (Palmiero and his finger pointing, etc) on steroids.

Bonds has been a jackass for a lot longer than that. He's always felt that he has been discriminated against. I don't recall people crying "cheater" or "juicer" during that run at the season record. Most of this is being brought out NOW.

I think people would have had an easier time just shaking their heads in disgust if he just said "yeah, I juiced - so what". The funny part is that when people didn't suspect it (or not as many people suspected it) he was a baseball superhero. Now that the truth is eeking out, the general (naive) public is a bit disgusted at the fact that he had a chance to just admit it and move on but he didn't take that road. Instead he seems to have denied it all.

Black or white doesn't really matter here. Yes, there are some people that dislike him because he's black but I would like to believe (and not naively) that they are in the minority. I don't like Bonds because he's a horses ass not because he's black. Hell, he's going to break a record that belongs to Hank Aaron (did we forget he's black). I think that people are viewing the record as something that should be broken by someone that has played the game at a high level for their entire career, not by someone that boosted the numbers by turning themselves into a lab rat.

If Barry Bonds would have just admitted to his use of performance enhancers and if he had the personality of someone that is liked (for the most part) by the majority of fans then he probably wouldn't be taking such a pounding on this issue. When I say someone that is liked I mean someone with a Tony Gwynn or Ozzie Smith or Albert Pujols type of personality.

I guess I'm a little bit on the hypocritic side because I really liked to watch him hit these past 5 years. Even though I don't like Bonds I sure like the dimension he has added to the game.