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Posted By: David Smith

Cobby,

Do you remember the quote about pornography?? The one that goes "I might not know the definition of pornography but I know it when I see it"?? That is Barry Bonds, steroid abuse and cheating. I might not be able to tell you how he cheated but I sure know it when I see. Like it or not, the circumstantial evidence points to Bonds cheating. Whether he ultimately gets away with it is another thing.

I would LOVE for an endocrinologist to explain to me how a person's feet grow from a size 10 to a size 13 1/2 after the age of 27. What disease or anything else could cause that?? Same thing about his head growing like it has.

There is also this old adage, "It ain't cheating if you get away with it".

Bonds (and other players) have gotten away with cheating because their Union has supported and protected them. Once "normal" Performance Enhancing Drugs were outlawed and testing started, then designer steroids took their place. Also, HGH and some of these other substances still don't have an accurate test to catch the cheaters.

If Bud Selig had any testicles, he would have suspended suspected cheats a long time ago and sent this whole mess to the court system. Players and the Union could lie and stall Selig but they couldn't the Criminal Justice system.

Bonds has ONLY testified to the Grand Jury (was that under oath?) but has NOT testified in any court room and has not been cross examined. He also did not testify in the Congressional Hearings. Raphael Palmiero did and look what happened to him. Mark McGwire was there but did not really testify and look at him and his Hall Of Fame votes.

Bonds' Attorneys sued the Authors of "Game of Shadows" but NOT because of the steroid allegations therein but for some other reasons. Same goes for his Mistress. She was sued because of the things she said but then the suit was dropped. I can't wait for her interview in the October issue of PlayBoy Magazine and to see what Bonds and his Attorney's do after that.

In the real world, Cobby, if I wrote a book and in it I said YOU were a pedophile (or some other nasty thing which wasn't true) would YOU sue ME?? I think you would, unless of course, what I wrote was TRUE!!!

I don't think Bonds is any different. He makes a LOT of money and has the resources to sue. Allegations of cheating hurt his marketability (even more than his surly attitude do) and THAT hurts his pocketbook. Bonds cares about two main things, himself and money. He was ticked that McGwire and Sosa were getting all of the attention in 1997 and that they were going to get big contracts. So, he resorted to cheating.

In the future, I think we will find out that both McGwire and Sosa were also abusing PEDs and then we will have a cheater cheating because he wanted to outdue two other cheaters. This is a slippery slope once it got started and the Baseball Comissioners could have stopped it once it was found out that McGwire was using Andro. But they didn't. But if they had, then we probably wouldn't be talking about Bonds breaking the record right now.

David