Barry Bonds: more drugs than a Pfizer convention

[Tom]

The article:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...x.html?cnn=yes

Pictures through the years:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mul...1.exclude.html

I dont see how anyone can cheer for this guy.

The authors describe how Bonds turned to steroids after the 1998 season because he was jealous of McGwire. Bonds hit 37 home runs in '98 -- a nice total and the fourth most of his career at that point -- but he was ignored by fans and the media who were captivated by McGwire's 70 home runs and his duel for the record with Sammy Sosa, who hit 66 that year.

According to the book, Bonds, in comments to his mistress, Kimberly Bell, often dismissed McGwire with racially-charged remarks such as, "They're just letting him do it because he's a white boy." But Bonds looked at McGwire and his hulking physique and decided he needed to dramatically increase his muscle mass to compete with him.
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In addition to detailing the drug usage, the excerpt portrays Bonds as a menacing boor, a tax cheat and an adulterer given to (probably because of the rampant steroid use) sexual dysfunction, hair loss and wild mood swings that included periods of rage. The authors report that Bonds gave Bell, with whom he continued his affair after his second marriage in January 1998, $80,000 in cash in 2001 from memorabilia income not reported to the IRS. Theirs was a volatile relationship. Bell retained answering machine recordings of him after he threatened to kill her, remarking that if she disappeared no one would be able to prove he even knew her.

In 2003, as their relationship completely unraveled, Bell angered Bonds by showing up late for a hotel rendezvous. According to the excerpt, Bonds put his hand around her throat, pressed her against a wall and whispered, "If you ever f-----' pull some s--- like that again I'll kill you, do you understand me?"

This book should be very interesting.

Bonds was on these all at once:
the clear
the cream
insulin
Human Growth Hormone
Testosterone Decanoate
Trenbolone (steroid for cows so they have more meat)

[Rick Waldroup]

This could not happen to a better guy. Barry Bonds is an ass. What will happen when a lot of these guys become eligible for the Hall of Fame? Bonds, McGuire, Sosa, Palmero, etc. What will the voters do? I love baseball. Probably in the end, most of these guys will not care. They've made their money.