You’re question seemed blatently abrassive, like you want to start a pissing match, to which I say gooday. I said GooDDay!

Oh yea, pull your head outta the sand and grab some fresh air.

You’re question seemed blatently abrassive, like you want to start a pissing match, to which I say gooday. I said GooDDay!

Oh yea, pull your head outta the sand and grab some fresh air.

“What about all the juicing pitchers who Bonds hit a home run off of? Can we count those home runs? Or do we just count the ones of non-juicing pitchers? Can we wipe away the stats of all the juicing pitchers too? Is he a prick? Yes. Did he take steroids? According to Game of Shadows, Yes. But the fact that he is the scapegoat for steroids in baseball is ridiculous.”

“Everybody was cheating, thats why its called the “Steroid Era.€ If you’re going to hate him for cheating, you have to hate everybody that cheated, which means you would pretty much have to hate the game of baseball, or at least what its become.”

“The fact of the matter is, steroids have engulfed baseball in the recent past and continue to do so now, though perhaps to a lesser extent. Until the league and the testers catch up to the cheaters, and that isn’t happening anytime soon, that’s not gonna change. As fans, we have three choices: either accept the facts and accept the game as it is, turn a blissful blind eye and continue to think that those nice ball players would never do such a thing, or stop watching. I’ll take the first one.”

“And the fact that the media have always hated Bonds should make people take what they are saying about him now with an enormous grain of salt.”

“Bonds just happened to get caught because his personality warranted people’s desire to bring him down. Imagine others who haven’t; the nice guys who smile for the cameras AND put up gaudy numbers.” (**coughRipkencoughcoughClemenscough**)

“But Selig deserves an asterisk, the owners deserve an asterisk, the managers and players who witnessed all of this juicing but said nothing or lied about it deserve an asterisk, and Donald Fehr and the players’ union deserve one as well for stonewalling until there was Congressional pressure. Because if not for the Congressional pressure, you better believe there wouldn’t be any steroids testing right now.”

I wish someone would explain why, just because he’s the most prominent one, Bonds deserves more harsh treatment than the rest. That’s unfair an is the product of personal biases alone. And I don’t mind if YOU, TBL, have those biases and express them, but for the media, which has a wider responsibility, to do so, is disgusting and unfair at best. Unless, of course, you like your media to be purposefully biased.

Secondly, it is worth noting that Hank Aaron averaged 34 homeruns from the 5 year stretch from age 30-34 and averaged 40+ homeruns the 5 year stretch from 35-39. Why won’t anyone ever report this?