Baseball and its commish

BWahlberg · Post by **BWahlberg** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:42 pm

Getting off topic, but who doesn't think Bonds took steriods?

Post by **SonomaCat** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:48 pm

jagur1 wrote:If he starts hitting home runs. I'd walk him 5 times a game and clog up the base paths like (insert slowest Freeway in California). I'd also start trying to hit the ball to left field a lot.

Yeah, he's gotten very slow now ... a friend of mine who is a former college bball player and diehard Giants fan demonstrated to me what Bonds started doing about 4 years ago. As he got older, he was having more problems with pulled muscles in his legs (steroids?, lack of stretching?, just plain old?). So now, instead of taking an explosive first step when the ball is hit or when he's making a move on the base pads, is that he conciously takes a small first step to take stress off of his hamstrings. It slows him down (kills his first step), but keeps him healthier. He certainly isn't much of a base stealing threat, and he doesn't cover much ground in left anymore, as you noted.

To Re/Max's point about him breaking down ... in all fairness, most ballplayers his age only have to worry about breaking down due to the stress of an awkward golf swing on the 1st tee box. The fact that Bonds (and others) is still playing is the exception to the rule. Maybe it is because of steroids that he is still in the game?

Post by **SonomaCat** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:51 pm

Didn't 20-some years pass between those pictures?

I would like to see before and after pictures of the year he allegedly started juicing per the books.

G.W.Bush · Post by **G.W.Bush** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:12 pm

Re/Max Griz wrote: Being a Seattle Mariner fan I can point to an opposite case, Brett Boone. He was named by Canseco, but denied it. I think it was in 2000 he put 30 lbs of muscle on and his Homeruns went way up, he suddenly became a "power hitter" even in an unfriendly home run park. When the testing came out a few years back, Boone showed up to spring training lighter and his HR numbers went way down.

Boone was/is a hometown favorite, but I seriously wonder if he was using steroids his spike in numbers made me suspiscious.

Don't forget about Brady Anderson. Guy hit 50 homers in 1996 and the next highest that he ever hit was 24 in 1999. Think that guy was juicing? Keep in mind he hit 210 home runs in 15 seasons. He had 24% of his career homers in one year. The late 90’s were all about using performance enhancing drugs.