Critics can hate Bonds, they can swear that he became a home-run machine through performance-enhancing drugs, but they can't erase 756 home runs.
"Yes, maybe he cheated, but he got 756 home runs!"
“Critics can hate Bonds, they can swear that he became a home-run machine through performance-enhancing drugs, but they can’t erase 756 home runs.”
I’m a critic. Performance-enhancing drugs, you say?
Have you ever seen a man go through a growth spurt in his thirties??
Baseball is getting another self-delivered black eye.
I love how critics just blow past the issue:
The fact is much of Bonds' work from 1999 to 2004 -- during a time many of us believe he was juiced -- can't be touched by an asterisk. Baseball had no policy against steroids during this time.You can't break a rule that wasn't there.
I have no feelings about Bonds whatsoever. I just think that he's being tarnished because he's not a media suck-up.
New to baseball, are you? Ever heard of Gaylord Perry? Corked bats? (I laughed out loud when Sosa's shattered and sprayed the contents of my old desk at work onto the field. Norm Cash, from 1961, was also proud of his loaded bat, so it isn't a new idea.) Stealing signs from the catcher? Denny McClain asking Mickey Mantle where to throw the ball to give him a HR to climb above Jimmy Foxx on the all-time HR list? (to 5th at the time, now 13th) Scuffing balls for the pitcher? Pine tar? Vaseline? MLB itself juicing the balls in 1998, including the one hit for McGwire's 70th? Performance-enhancing cheats are nothing new to that game.
How many games, wins, strikeouts, big names, etc do you want to toss out?