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Deadspin is calling it "Baseball's Watergate" and deeming  Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams "as close to Woodward and Bernstein as we’re gonna get." I could not agree more. This is a big deal. Maybe the biggest deal we've seen in a very long time.

I've always happily taken the view that steroids are no big deal. I was never bothered really by athletes taking them, never thought the integrity of the game argument was that pressing. Basically, I didn't care. Previously, the line between legal supplements and illicit drugs seems too blurry for me to really buy any of the arguments trying to decry the use as that bad. It seemed kind of inevitable and expected. It seemed normal.

This article is so unbelievably good. For the first time, it not only makes the use of these drugs seem not normal, but outright scary. It described the routine, the process and the consequences in such vivid and painful detail there is no way to brush it off any longer. Where I was indifferent before, I am now convinced that this is a really bad thing, and that Barry Bonds is a bad man for doing it. Well done.

Please read this article now. Even if you don't follow sports, it should transcend interest. I am excited to follow the aftermath.

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[TexSport Publications]

Bonds is washed up. He may be looking at hard time (or as hard as it can be in a federal prison). He should be banned from baseball for life and all his records thrown out.

I have posted an article on my blog http://texsportpub.blogspot.com

Please feel free to drop in and leave any views or comments, no matter how ridiculous they are.

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[drewo]

Gee, interesting timing for the release of this book. Could it have been released last year when Bonds wasn't playing and he was off the baseball radar? No, of course not, it will sell more now at the start of the season.

Remember the Lance Armstrong smear book last year (LA Confidential) published just prior to the Tour de France? Similar timing - similar grab at bucks based on sensationalism and innuendo.

Sports Illustrated? They're looking to move a boatload of issues based on these latest "revelations". SI - who's most high-profile and hardest-hitting annual "investigative" issue of the year was recently published - it's called the "Swimsuit Issue".

I look forward to more investigative reporting in similar "quality" mags like Maxim, FHM, Stuff, etc...

[jerry]

...and Hightimes!

[trip]

This has been a long time coming. I still don't know how he managed to not be called at the congressional hearings last year. And yes, the timing is definitely somewhat dubious from a marketing/book sales perspective, but I still believe that this kind of a story would have a very large impact at any time of year. The real question is: Anyone who watches baseball KNEW that he was juicing at least to some degree during his career. Now that it's official, will it really change anything on and off the field?

[drewo]

Steroids are generally used to bulk up and add muscle. That’s why they’re commonplace in football. Baseball fans know that bulk and muscle do not necessarily make for a better hitter (see Juan Gonzalez in springs past). Baseball fans know that hand/eye quickness and coordination are the skills that make a hitter great - reaction time and the ability to jump on a pitch. Wouldn’t bulking up slow down this process? Or are we to believe that steroids also improve hand/eye speed and coordination? Wow, steroids – they can do it all!

You would think that Barry, with all that added muscle, would have a gun for a throwing arm – as good as Vlad Guerrero. However, baseball fans know that Barry’s throwing arm is considered very weak. But wouldn’t those steroids make him super strong, capable of hitting the plate with a throw from the outfield? Perhaps it’s because, and Barry would be first to admit, he does not practice his throwing – he concentrates his efforts on improving his hitting.

Yes, Barry is “larger” than when he began his career. Indeed, most Americans (including most people reading this) are “larger” than they were 15-20 years ago. Unlike most Americans though, Barry has the time and money to hire trainers and nutritionists to keep himself in top-flight physical shape.

Do a quick Google image search. Check out young Reggie Jackson circa ’68 around his rookie year. Then check out Reggie later in his career with the Yankees. He looks much larger and more muscular later in his career. Do the same with Roger Clemens – check out Roger as rookie with the Sox around ’84. Now see Roger recently with the Astros. Dude is bigger and more muscular. Guess both Reggie and Roger were/are on the “juice” also, eh?

[Jeff]

Looks like they've built a pretty solid case, drewo. Lots of solid evidence to back it up.

Furthermore, there's a mention in the article that says one of the Steroids helped Barry see the pitches better...

Just saying...

[wes]

whoa, that's all kind of hulky scary to read about the how-to's and effects. thanks for sharing

[drewo]

And Barry is the only one of 800+ major leaguers to benefit from these "super" steroids that can do it all? That Barry Bonds is not only clearly the greatest hitter of his generation, but one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball, solely due to using his "special" mix of steroids? Puhlease. Wouldn't there be at least a few other players trying the "juice" who would approach Bondsian-like feats?

And explain to me why his throwing arm is so weak. Don't the steroids make him super-strong?

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