Gonz said:
I think Barry Bonds should be booted for stupidity. He claims he took steroids but didn't know they were steroids. If you make a living of your physical prowess (in any manner) and don't know what you're injecting into your system, you are too stupid to live, much less play baseball.
That said...government needs to butt out of baseball.
Bonds must either be a complete idiot, or think everyone else in the world is a complete idiot. His frame ballooned up overnight, he started doubling and tripling his HR tallies...and nothing is awry. Riiiii-iiiiight.
He claims he doesn't know what that stuff was they were smearing on him. Riiiii-iiiight.
His personal trainer is under Fed investigation for steroid distribution, but Barry never used any despite being the guy's pet athlete. Riiiiii-iiiiight.
He regularly worked out at a gym less than a block from Balco Laboratories, with the guy under indictment, and no one should be suspicious. Riii-iiight.
He's a creep. The thought that he will eventually be known as the greatest slugger in the history of baseball with this cloud over him is nauseating. The records he will soon break are among the most revered and sacred in the sport. His breaking them will forever taint them. Gee, thanks Barry.
It's a shame that government intervention will likely be needed to police drug abuse in professional sport. I oppose it, but I also understand that if all else fails, something must be done. When baseball proves unable to correct itself, then somebody else has to do it for them. Since the issue at hand is something that falls under the auspices of legality and illegality, it falls to the government I guess to fix it.
