Barry Bonds - future Hall of Famer or Pathetic Roid-head disgrace?

Answer 1

Cheater!! Belongs in jail. No class. He's letting Greg Anderson do his jail time for him. He has now been exposed as a "Speed Head" according to the San Fran Chronicle and actually falsely dimed out a fellow teammate for supplying him with the pills. These are not the acts of a Hall Of Famer.

Baseball would be better off without him. He's not worthy of wearing a major league uniform. A complete disgrace to baseball.

Answer 2

I am equally disgusted HOWEVER I do believe countless other MLB players were using as well. Out of 750 players on 30 teams in any given year during Bond's heyday I would NOT be surprised if as many as 500 were on something and the players and management DID NOTHING to protest this.... so Bonds useage was only status quo for the times. As the best ballplayer of his day even without the drugs he is the SCAPEGOAT and others have escaped scrutiny and will glide into the HALL OF FAME with no mention of their own drug history.

The only fair thing to do is to ignore the facts here and move on. They dont make heroes like they used to. Mickey Mantle was a serious drunk and when he was dying he chose to be brutally honest about his shortcomings and be an example to others.

Think about that.

Answer 3

Disgrace

Answer 4

mcgwire getting less than 25% of the votes this past week shows that no matter what the numbers say, the voters, and the fans, do not want to put up with the steroid question when it comes to the hall of fame. if bonds, or mcgwire, or anyone for that matter who is involved in this, can show definitive proof that they in no way were involved with steroids, then the writers who get to vote for the hall of fame inductees will continue to reject these players's requests to get in. there are plenty of other people who are deserving of the honor of being inducted to the hall (goose gossage, jim rice) who dont have the steroids doubt hanging over them. lets remember, not only was mcgwire rejected falling almost 300 votes shy of the 435 (i think, i could be wrong here) needed to get in, but guys like jose canseco and ken caminiti got less than 5% of the vote, making it so that they can no longer appear on a hall of fame ballot

Answer 5

As much as I hate to say it, unless he gets banned for steroid usage, the fool will go into the Hall of Fame. He's a disgrace to the game and should never be allowed on a field.

Answer 6

FUTURE HALL OF FAMER...he's easily one of the best baseball players of all-time.

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Do me a favor and tell me what other test he failed?

None, none you say.

Bonds has now failed one test for a substance that only recently became banned in MLB. As a result many of the protein shakes, vitamin supplements and other legal "performance enhancers" that players have been taking for years had yet to adjust their contents.

Had Bonds stocked up on a certain legal supplement a year prior to the banning of these new substances then all of those supplements would be tainted and if he didn't know they contained something on the now ever-changing list of banned substances, what did you want him to do through out any product he may have had because he doesn't know whether or not every ingredient is now on the chameleon-like banned substance list?

And the obvious off-shoot for him assuming it was something he'd received from a teammate is because Mark Sweeney started offering Bonds' some new supplements that he used to maintain health and performance...all totally legal mind you...and Bonds, having not changed his regimen in any other way simply assumed that this would be where he ended up with the banned substance.

I think people need to get their facts straight before they start going off on Bonds.

He is one the greatest ballplayers of all-time, with or without any of the stigma that's been placed on him in recent years. For him to continue performing at the level he has with all of the stress and negative press focused on him is a tribute to the caliber of ballplayer he really is.

He has yet to fail a test for steroids. It has yet to be proven that he at any point knowingly took steroids. He was a Hall of Famer before any of this steroid talk even came up and he is going to be a Hall of Famer when he retires.

To all of you who want to ban him from the game, that's ridiculous. Should the NBA have banned Michael Jordan for life because he had a gambling problem? Should the NFL ban every player who gets caught with a joint, should they all be kicked out for life? It is absolutely unfounded in anyway to suggest that MLB pick one player to ostracize and ban from the game because of suspected...SUSPECTED steroid use. Players have been doing anything and everything to get ahead in every sport since the creation of sports.

People need to simply sit back, let Bonds break the record and walk off into retirement at the end of the 2007 season, because like it or not, that's exactly how it's going to go.

Answer 7

IF he took anything, it was not against the rules at the time. Blame the owners and the union head for the problems. He is HOF material. Most football players probably take, do you think the same way of them?

Answer 8

Its a shame because he would have been a shoe in for the Hall if it were not for the steroids. I think baseball needs to stand up & take alot of the blame for this because they turned there head when it was going on.

Answer 9

Hall of Famer. You people may hate the man, but he was a d*mn good ball player.

Answer 10

He is a piece of garbage. With the roids or without he still sucks.