[GarySpFc]

If I recall correctly Barry is about 38 to 40, and that much weight gain happens as one ages. I weighed 120 in high school, 124 when I went in the army, and now 190 at age 62. My metabolism slowed down with age, and now when I smell mash potatoes I go to bed at night and hear the fat glands grow.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

True enough, but check out the dude's bulging 'roid head. I bet your hat size didn't go from a 6 7/8 to a 7 1/2 when you turned 40.

[Puppage]

that much weight gain happens as one ages

Yeah, right..THAT'S it.

Case closed.

[Freepdonia]

Bonds' face is fatter now then it was when he was younger, but that probably could be said of most people.

Is there any proof that his hat size is larger now? If there is, that would end any doubt for me (not that I really have any that he used some form of steroids). I could go by the photos, but photos don't always tell the truth. Besides, it would probably make more sense to use a photo of him a year before he started really mashing the ball for the comparison instead of when he was twenty.

[DoughtyOne]

Quite right Gary, if fat deposits were signs of steroid use, I'd be typing this from a maximum security steroid detox unit. LOL

[Twinkie]

Man, tell me about it. I'm 58. I try not to gorge myself, but I finally just quit getting on the scale. I can tell by my clothes I've lost a little, and whether or not I get on the scales there seems to not be a lot I can do about this fatty arbuckle thing I've got going on. When I was 20, I weighed 117-118 lbs., then it worked up to 165 by the time I was 40. I've lost 25 lbs. since then a couple of times, only to gain it back by looking at something fattening. Now, I don't know what I weigh. I suspect about 165 (though I've been up to 179 a few months ago). Also, some of the blood pressure meds I take list weight gain in the side effects. Oh, and I'm a woman which probably makes it worse. However, at my age, I am not enthusiastic about starving or doing without carbs just so I can still look like Miss Piggy even after dieting. :@(
And, I just got tired of asking an inanimate object (the scales) whether or not I can be happy today.

[JeeperFreeper]

LOL. Me, too. The years have given me two diseases. One is furniture disease: my chest dropped into my drawers. The second is dickey-do disease: my stomach sticks out further than my di** do.

[uncbob]

If I recall correctly Barry is about 38 to 40, and that much weight gain happens as one ages. I weighed 120 in high school, 124 when I went in the army, and now 190 at age 62. My metabolism slowed down with age, and now when I smell mash potatoes I go to bed at night and hear the fat glands grow.

Bonds is an ATHLETE don't know about you

I weigh ten pounds less than I did in college
I am 6 ft 160 at age 68
In college I was 6 ft 170 ( 6% body fat )

Unfortunately the ten pound less is ten pounds less muscle

[shizahead]

But did you gain all muscle and did your head grow 2 inches in diameter. He’s on HGH, undetectable to nay tests, thats why the BALCO people were busted for making the HGH known as the “Clean” and the “Clear”. It is pure, has little side effects, and is clear or undetectable.

Barry is not fat or overweight and the odds that a man that age, who is losing testosterone everyday and making more estrogen, can gain 80 pounds of muscle is impossible. No way. Once you are that size you don’t need HGH because you have already changed your DNA and with constant weight lifting he can maintain the same size even if he is not on it anymore.