When I was all strung out on speed, I was capable of feats of superhuman endurance, too. It didn’t make me a hero, and it sure as hell didn’t make me a better ball player than Hammerin’ Hank Aaron. It just made me a more reprehensible prick, and from the press I’ve seen Bonds do, apparently steroids work the same way.
posted by Fang Bastardson at 6:26 AM
Born in the wild to Canadian Timberwolves, Fang was wrestled from his mother's teat at an early age and placed in the custody of a government sponsored think tank in New York City. He escaped at age seven by gnawing off a doo-claw and has been riding a wave of self-righteous indignation to Nowheresville, baby, ever since. He is currently enjoying being a PhD (by marriage), but on the advice of his attorney has refused all comment except to assert an apparently deeply-held conviction that frozen strawberries should be thawed, not microwaved.
2 Comments:
Yeah, I'm in San Francisco right now and everyone is all atwitter. I have no doubt that BB is a great ball player but who starts hitting more home runs AFTER they turn 35?
He's a big phony, if ya ask me.
6:46 PM
You know, Roger Clemens is another player who had always been a cut above the rest, but, funny thing, when he got deeper into this 30s -- the time when ball players' abilities usually diminish rapidly -- he got even better.
Like Barry, Roger is kind of dickish. He's also been linked to roids through circumstantial evidence.
But crackers love their Clemens and HATE Bonds.
Now I'm not saying they being racialist or anything -- cuz, it's true, everybody loves Hammerin' Hank, greenies or not -- but I'm starting to think that Bonds' bashing has replaced NASCAR as America's Great White Pastime.
By the way, Clemens seems an asshole, but I totally admire the guy. I saw him pitch in Minneapolis once, totally dominant.
I have seen Bonds in person and he acted like a nice guy. I mean, he got off the bus to give a kid an autograph. But, as a Giants fan, I'm so damn sick of the homerun race. And he wants to come back next year and match Aaron's RBIs and hits. Yawn. I'd really like to see a Giant's team that with a little spark to it, not a tired bunch of overpaid journeyman players surrounding Mr. Controversy.
But alas I must go ...
7:50 PM
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