Did I Friggin' Stutter

Just finished reading "The Truth - About Barry Bonds and Steroids" in Sports Illustrated. The article, an excerpt from a forthcoming book by San Francisco Chronicle sportswriters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, is a damning report about Barry Bonds and his use of multiple steroids since 1998.

Many people who follow baseball closely have thought for years that Barry Bonds was a jerk. I follow baseball once in a while, and have never really paid that much attention to Bonds. I would of course see him hit homerun after homerun on ESPN's Inside Baseball highlights, and it's always fun to see the long homerun.

But that was pretty much it. Although I take in some Phil's games every year, I had never seen Bonds in person. All those reports about the changes in his body, and how much bigger he was in San Francisco than he was in Pittsburgh just didn't resonate.

The steroid controversy didn't engage me either. I had known about steroid use in college and professional sports for a long time and have previously commented on the way it could be fixed. I didn't just start in the 90's as most people were led to believe. MLB players started using steroids in the early 70's, and the same was true in the NFL. A friend of mine who played Division 1 football in the early 80's quit the game because of rampant steroid use on his team. He joked to me, "I'm crazy
enough without taking that stuff."

His head coach was renowned for running a clean program, but my friend said he'd have to have been deaf, dumb, and blind not to see the signs of steroids everywhere. Like they say, if you're winning, nobody asks any questions.

After reading the Sports Illustrated article about Bonds, it isn't easy to be sympathetic. The guy really is a jerk. He is a jerk first and foremost, and then a jerk who used every kind of steroid imaginable.

He cheated, and he lied about cheating.

He isn't alone. He had plenty of company in MLB. The press hasn't been exactly straight on this issue. Bonds treated them badly, and they got their revenge on him. But they didn't question scores of others.

While I panned Jose Canseco as well in previous articles I did give him credit for admitting what was going on and naming names, the ultimate insult to the powers that be in baseball. The story Curt Schilling told Congress, that the issue involved only a handful of players and was way overblown, is a crock.

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As Barry would say, "Did I friggin' stutter?"

To which I would reply, "Yes. I believe you did stutter there, Barry, could you repeat that, the part about you not using steroids?"

All the best,

Doc