Gene Lyons on Barry Bonds

[mooseandsquirrel]

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Granted, that’s a lot of maybes. But if I were Pete Rose, the former Cincinnati Reds star banished from major league baseball for gambling, I’d lay odds that Bonds will accomplish every one of those goals. Indeed, the simplest thing might be to induct Rose and Bonds into the Hall of Fame together to get the boycotting, booing and political posturing out of the way all at once.

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http://moose-and-squirrel.com/gene/gene.html

[meegbear]

1. The Onion sums it up nicely ...

Barry Bonds Took Steroids, Reports Everyone Who Has Ever Watched Baseball

SAN FRANCISCO—With the publication of a book detailing steroid use by San Francisco Giants superstar Barry Bonds, two San Francisco Chronicle reporters have corroborated the claims of Bonds' steroid abuse made by every single person who has watched or even loosely followed the game of baseball over the past five years.

In Game Of Shadows, an excerpt of which appeared in Sports Illustrated Wednesday, authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams claim that more than a dozen people close to Bonds had either been directly informed that Bonds was using banned substances or had in fact seen him taking the drugs with their own eyes. In addition to those witnesses, nearly 250 million other individuals nationwide had instantly realized that Bonds was using banned substances after observing his transformation from lanky speedster to hulking behemoth with their own eyes.

According to hundreds of thousands of reports coming out of every city in the U.S., Bonds' steroid use has been widely reported and well-documented for years, with sports columnists, bloggers, people attending baseball games, memorabilia collectors, major ballpark popcorn and peanut vendors, groundskeepers, roommates, significant others, fathers-in-law, next-door neighbors, fellow fitness club members, bartenders, mailmen, coworkers, teachers, doormen, parking-lot attendants, fellow elevator passengers, Home Depot clerks, servicemen and women serving in Iraq, former baseball players, Congressmen, second-tier stand-up comics, Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly, and random passersby all having stated at some point in the last five years that Bonds was obviously taking some sort of performance-enhancing drugs.

Many of those eyewitnesses came forward following Wednesday's revelation with their own accounts of Bonds' seven-year history of steroid use.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46188

[classysassy]

2. Test them all

Why is Barry Bonds the only one the press is going after,could it be that he is proud and black?,why not Roger Clemons,look at his pictures from his early days in the league,I am with Barry,tell those bastards to go p---up a rope.