Thoughts on Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds has now tied Hank Aaron with 755 career home runs. The lead story, however, is not Bond’s achievement, but his steroid use. I have a question: when did steroid use become something new? I remember being a sophomore in high school in 1984. There were clearly many in my high school “juiced”. It wasn’t even a debate. So if steroids were abused back in 1984 within my high school athletic world, is someone going to try and convince me that the use of steroids in pro football and baseball only started in the nineties? Look, it sounds like Bonds is an arrogant jerk. He took steroids. But why is everyone conveniently ignoring all of the other pro athletes over the last 25 years who have made steroids part of their breakfast of champions? The dirty little secret is that most sports over the last 25 years have been injected with steroids. Please rip Bonds. He deserves it, but so does everyone else.
Note: To all non-baseball people, Bonds swing did not come from steroids. There are plenty of bloated muscle freaks who could never swing a bat. That is not a Bonds defense, just reality.
