Barry Bonds is the DEVIL!!!

Telltale signs of Roid Rage -- mixed metaphors!!!

*thumbs up*

(An excerpt of Game of Shadows that details Bonds' steroid use appears exclusively in the March 13 issue of Sports Illustrated, which is available on newsstands beginning on Wednesday. The book's publication date is March 27.)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/03/06/news.excerpt/index.html?cnn=yes

i believe a lot of the specifics come from the recently unsealed court documents. there was a link regarding the notation/documentation that i didn't bother to follow.

at least as interesting as the article, to me.

1990-1994 Age 25-29 175 HRs
1995-1999 Age 30-34 186 HRs
2000-2004 Age 36-40 258 HRs

Either Bonds is some freak of nature that somehow peaked later than 99.99% of every baseball player ever to play the game or something helped him out. Either way, the MLB or the Players Association did not care enough about the doping to make it against the rules.

Bonds was good when he was young, so there isn't anything to say he wouldn't be good in his late 30s, but to do what he did, forget about it.

Timeline wise, 1998 seems early to me, I would have thought Bonds got on the program after being beat up in 99 and missing a bunch of games. If it did help, it did not really kick in until 2000.

Yes, we should definitely pass steroid judgements based on subjective suspicions of performance increase instead of, er, evidence that someone used steroids. Nice.

This is why I generally ignore everything other than positive tests and confessions.

Of course I could. (For starters, if he was Pete Rose.) But the irony of the Bonds Pinata Party resuming the same day as the Saint Kirby eulogies was too obvious to ignore.

So far the response to this has actually been semi-sane. Not the usual over-the-top nonsense

We've been seeing different things! First five minutes of the CBS Evening News last night: 1) Dana Reeve's death from lung cancer; 2) Bonds and the book. Ed Murrow would be so FUCKING proud.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=dw-bondsbook030706&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- Boos coming his way from all directions, Barry Bonds slowly stepped into the batter's box for his first spring appearance in two years and struck out swinging on six pitches.

No home run form yet for the San Francisco star -- though he did single sharply to right in his third-inning at-bat. After that, he called it a day, leaving the ballpark in the top of the fourth inning.

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Bonds, playing in a Cactus League game against the AL West-winning Los Angeles Angels, drew some cheers Thursday, two days after the release of excerpts from an upcoming book detailing his alleged longtime steroids regimen.

"We love you, Barry!" one man screamed during Bonds' first at-bat against Angels right-hander Hector Carrasco, the slugger's first trip to the plate in an Arizona exhibition game since 2004. His single came off Carrasco.

After missing the entire spring schedule last year while recovering from knee surgery, Bonds decided to play Thursday. He rejoined the Giants in the morning after spending Wednesday at home in California for a child custody hearing.

The seven-time NL MVP originally said this spring he wouldn't play in any road games, but the quick trip to Tempe is one of the shortest on San Francisco's schedule -- and he had the chance to play designated hitter. Bonds often has complained of how tired his legs become standing in left field for an entire game while also spending significant time on the bases after being walked.

Manager Felipe Alou had hoped Bonds would play Thursday, but didn't list him on the original lineup. Alou quickly wrote a new one upon talking to his star cleanup hitter, who replaced Eliezer Alfonzo as DH.

Bonds waved to the clapping fans when he entered the Angels' stadium for the first time, accompanied by teenage son Nikolai. He also greeted autograph seekers as he made his way into Scottsdale Stadium for warm-up drills and batting practice.

He did a couple of twists to stretch by his locker and said little as he walked out of the clubhouse.

"I gotta go," he said. "I gotta keep on schedule."

The 41-year-old Bonds, who is third on the all-time list with 708 homers and only 48 shy of breaking Hank Aaron's career mark, had been out of the exhibition lineup after playing only 14 games last season following three operations on his troublesome right knee.

After taking several rounds of batting practice, Bonds quickly disappeared into the clubhouse.

"I've got a game to get to," he said.

On Tuesday, Sports Illustrated released excerpts from "Game of Shadows," written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters.

Bonds, who testified before a California federal grand jury investigating steroid use by top athletes, has always denied using performance-enhancing drugs and said his accomplishments are purely a result of hard work and talent.

In their book, authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams describe how Bonds started using steroids because he was jealous of the attention paid to Mark McGwire's home run race with Sammy Sosa in 1998.