I heard something of interest regarding Barry Bonds today....
You know that black bionic device he wears on his arm when he is at bat? Apparently he's the one of the very few, if not the only player in baseball, allowed to wear that device....
According to the story, that device acts as an arm stabilizer, allowing a player to achieve a faster and steadier hitting stroke than a player who doesn't wear that arm aid.....kind of like the wrist stabilizer used by bowlers to achieve a steadier bowling throw....
Bonds arm aid device has been banned from baseball because of the unfair advantage that it gives him over players who don't wear that device, but because of baseball union pressure, anyone who was previously allowed by major league baseball to wear the device can continue to do so, kinda like a "grandfather clause".....nobody else in the future can wear that arm stabilizing device.
So apparently, not only was Bonds injesting and injecting "internal" performancing substances, (and if you read that book "Game of Shadows", it is clear that there is a greater chance of, "if I murdered them, here's how I did it " O J Simpson being innocent of double murder than there is of Bonds not using performancing enhancing steroids), Bonds is also wearing an "external" performance enhancing device, that no other baseball player is allowed to wear, per current baseball rules.
Bonds is a cheater and an embarrassment to baseball who is bent on finding any advantage possible over his competition, whether the advantage is honest or not.
But I also blame major league baseball, who looked the other way when Sosa and Mc Guire were crushing records, because that home run chase raised the stature of the game, even though it was obviously done with performance enhancing substances.....so baseball is now reaping with Bonds what it has previously sown....
The thing that I don't get is this....Bonds would have been a slam dunk first ballot hall of famer without the needle sticking out of his arm, so why did he do it? My personal opinion and suspicion is that his ego is so massive that he couldn't stand the thought of Sosa and Mc Gwire getting all the homerun spotlight, so he had to "steroid up" to compete with them....and it is documented fact that never in the history of baseball has any player who ever lived registered the rapid and incredible statistical performance increases that Bonds has done, not even sure fire hall of fame players years younger...Bonds, after age 35, has the highest year over year hitting percentage increase, by far, of any player, of ANY age, in the history of the game....that's just not natural, and by all credible experts, that is physically impossible without the use of performance enhancing substances.....
I'm pretty much done with baseball over this fiasco. Bonds would have withered like a daffodil flower under the harrowing racism experienced by Hank Aaron and Jackie Robinson, and those two players still excelled.....Barry Bonds is not worthy, in either character, ability or integrity, to carry the jock strap of either one of those two baseball ledgends.....
