Does anyone believe Barry Bonds????

[littleriver]

This Barry Bonds thing just makes me sick. I mean isn't it bad enough that the vast preponderence of our sports heros are illiterate, mumbling, bumbling, intellectual lightweights do they also have to be juiced up, doped up, and running on illegal chemicals of all kinds??

A very able football player from my era, Lyle Alzedo, sort of summed it up when he died 4 decades before his time from complications from overuse of steroids during his playtime days. He said that if he had to do it again he wouldn't have.



Managers of professional sports need to go back to the days when the Greek empire was dominant and the Olympic Games were in their orginal form. Male contestants performed totally nude and the young women who paraded prior to the games always had one breast uncovered. Hedonism evolved during these halycon days of Greek military supremacy.

But the Greeks go one thing right. They refused to time any of the contestants because they thought it was unimportant. To them it didn't matter how fast a runner finished a race all that mattered was who was first.


In that simple concept the people who run the NFL, the NBA, and professional baseball have all the ideology they need to bring credibility back to their sports.

This because the fear they always have when enforcing drug policies is that "heros" will fall and attendance will follow. That "fear" is a total farce.


A baseball pitcher doesn't become a "hero" and an "icon" because that pitcher can throw the ball 95 miles per hour. That pitcher becomes a hero and an icon because 95 miles an hour or 100 miles per hour is faster than anyone else can throw it.

Let's say that we start some serious enforcement efforts and this results in all the "abusers" simply "going away" and when that is done the fastest anyone can pitch is 75 mph.

As long as no "doped up dummies" come along and are allowed to throw faster balls the person throwing at 75 mph will become a hero and attendance will rise.


Performance is relative. Professional sports execs, University Sports league managers, and even high school sport managers need to start enforcing drug and illegal substance rules with great vigor. Once the performance enhancing chemicals are totally out of the system there will still be heros and there will still be icons. It's just that these icons will be performing at what is maximum for a non-doped up human.

And that's ok. It worked for the Greeks and it will work for us.

[A9]

I hope Barry get's put in the slammer. I also don't wanna hear about Barry for the next 3 weeks I turn to ESPN....I hope he gets what he deserves, and goes to where he belongs. He's a cheater and deserves the punishment...

[panfisher]

i don't believe him. to much money involved for him.

[cavdad45]

So what if he did use steroids. And no Lyle Alzedo did not die from steroids, he died from brain cancer which has nothing to do with steroids; despite the TV ads inference of such nonsense. Check with any oncologist, there is no link.