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Apparently, John Miller called Bonds the all-time baseball home run leader. Too bad Sadaharu Oh is actually the all-time leader with 868 home runs. Keep playing till you're 50 old man!

Bonds is an idiot. If he'd have just fessed up to using 'roids 4 years ago most people would've forgiven him by now and the controversy would have been largely abated.

Instead he did the least classy thing possible and took an "everyone is out to get me" stance even as he began to get unnecessarily testy with the media.

He's always been a talented ballplayer but you can't tell me he went from being an lanky, base-stealing, slap-hitting, 30 hr hitter for the Pirates to a slow, lumpy 50-70 hr hitter without some "help."

A-Rod is annoying but he didn't juice.

See that's what doesn't make sense. Why do you think A-Rod didn't juice? Bonds was surly to the media well before anybody was even thinking about steroids. I'm not saying he did or didn't take anything.

The point is that nobody is putting asterisks by every game the Twins won because Juan Rincon got a key double play in the eighth. And we know he juiced.

Of course, as my dad once pointed out, steroids don't exactly help you see the ball better, which is probably as crucial as muscling the ball over the fence.

That's what space-age contact lenses are for (I'm looking at you, Justin Morneau and Brian Roberts)

I don't think it's quite the same for a pitcher taking steroids. You might get a little more giddy up on the fastball but it's not going to help your breaking or off speed pitches any and you need those more than anything to be successful in the Big Leagues. A stronger hitter is going to see those warning track fly balls turn into 5th row homers pretty quickly.

Your right I don't "know" A-Rod didn't juice but just looking at him and that fact that he's put up pretty consistent numbers (not great and then suddenly ridiculous ones way later on in his career) makes me give him the benefit of the doubt.

It's a classic situation of "doth protest too much". Bonds hasn't admitted to using steroids but he hasn't denied it either—which basically means he used something. Had he just said "Yeah I used them for a while but I don't anymore—I'm truly sorry for that but what I can I do? I love baseball and I'm going to continue to play" most people would have forgiven him.

What does looking at him have to do with anything? Does Derrick Turnbow look like he doped? Does Bjarne Riis?

It just doesn't make sense to me to single out Bonds when it's so prevalent. It's not like he's the only one that denies it. Just the only one that hasn't been forgiven by the fans (just for fun: name another black ballplayer who people suspect of juicing but don't constantly boo).

Gary Sheffield would be one.

Tell me you aren't playing the race card here because if you are that's just lame.

Sheff has always been big. And he had an awesome perm mullet and skinny moustaches combination when he was young. Is he really any more suspected of steroids than Jim Thome?

Obviously you'd rather trivialize what's going on by using terms like "the race card". What is your argument, anyway? Bonds is big and mean and should therefore not count? As long as you use steroids and are nice about it it's ok?

yo, you gotta give the guy props for being entertaining. How many hits do you think the "*" counts for?