Bonds exposed: Shadows details superstar slugger's steroid use

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Posted By: warshawlaw

He may not be the paragon of virtue but he is unrestrained in his comments on baseball. He did an interview on HBO and was asked about hand-eye and steroids. His point was that an elite player in MLB already has spectacular hand-eye coordination and eyesight, so if you make that player stronger, he muscles deep fly balls over the fence. Rose said that he played with Aaron and Mays extensively and never saw them hit the kinds of opposite field HRs that the modern sluggers are hitting.

One of the problems that the Bonds defenders have is that Bonds himself claims ignorance and in the process destroys himself as a defense witness. Bonds says he used stuff Anderson gave him without knowing it was anything except flaxseed oit; Anderson says the stuff was illegal performance enhancing drugs. At most, Bonds can claim that he has no knowledge, and by definition if the person who has knowledge says it was steroids, guess what, it was steroids. If you believe that Bonds has no culpability for what he puts into his body, you support Bonds. If you believe that the buck stops with Bonds' decision to take a substance, you consider his records tainted, not because he admits to the taint but because he admits he has no actual knowledge and the person who does says that the illegal drugs were used. Me, I feel that there is enough evidence from enough sources to conclude that Bonds used illegal drugs to enhance his performance in violation of the existing rules and I would not vote him into the HOF if I had a vote. I don't want his deeds glorified. I feel the same way about Rafael Palmiero and after his performance in Congress, Mark McGwire.