As evidenced by the rising revenues in baseball, the sport is as popular as ever and actually, even moreso probably. This coming at a time when all the public suspects that players are cheating. The point is......noboby cares. We want to be entertained. When I go see a Giants game, I'm looking to see Bonds hit one 500 ft. I wouldn't care if he stood at home plate and put the syringe in his arm before each at bat. Athletes and teams in all sports cheat in one way or another so this is no big deal to me.
I've seen several commentaries saying that Bonds came out the big winner here. Everyone has been so hard on him and cast him as some kind of devil because they say he cheated. Everyone fawns over Clemens and calls him some sort of god and an athletic marvel. Now that his name has been mentioned, he's going to become the new face of the steroid era for a while and take some of the heat off of old news Bonds.
So now, if Bonds deserves and asterisk because he had an unfair advantage by using drugs, does that change if half of the pitchers are using them too?
This report is a joke. It won't clean up anything. Selig won't clean up anything. The owners are making too much money these days to let him mess that up. Does anyone believe that had the Giants owner personally seen Bonds taking drugs that he would have told him to stop? I don't. He was too busy counting his money from all of the sellout crowds Bonds was attracting.
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12-15-2007, 10:37 AM
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