Sammy Sofa

do rich people even get sick from aids any more? i'd guess that roberto alomar has more than enough money to get the good meds. magic johnson was diagnosed with HIV almost 20 years ago and he's still alive; in fact he looks about 50 lbs overweight. Is there a difference in fighting HIV v AIDS? Magic has been fighting HIV forever. I'm not sure if he'd be winning that battle if it were already AIDS when he started fighting. I don't know one way or the other. Exactly. Magic isn't fighting having AIDS. That's a whole other ballpark from dealing with HIV.

Good luck with that. Go for Maris while you're at it. Now those would be real "witch hunts." You can nit pick all you want but nothing in baseball history will compare to your tarnished heroes from the steroids era. You sound like someone told you there is no Santa Claus. maris was a good power hitter who suddenly had the best HR season in the history of baseball, but he went bald during that year and then got hurt a lot afterward and retired, never coming close to approaching that homer total. fits the profile Roger actually lost weight that year on his skinny frame with no increase in head size. He was protected in the lineup most of the year by a good Yankee lineup and saw a lot of fastballs down the middle and was the perfect hitter for Yankee Stadium's short porch. How about comparing Aaron's career home run consistency with McGwire, Sosa, Bonds, etc? How about it Meph? FYI, IMB your man Obama just said at his press conference that A-Roid and all the guilty players of the steroid era had "tarnished" baseball. I thought it was a great choice of words. Now who could argue with someone as smart as Obama? hank aaron hit 29 home runs in 160 games as a 34-year old, then hit 44 as a 35-year olda nd hit a career high 47 as a 37-year old. He had his best power years well past his prime. He hit 40 home runs as a 39-year old. his profile fits that of a steroid user. The only reason he was able to break ruth's record was because he played longer than most players were able to, and we all already acknowledge that steroids prolonged bonds' career. looks like aaron is dirty too BUT HEAD SIZE. REASON AND STUFF.

Barry Bonds was great before he took steroids. He was going to be in the hall. But he wasn't going to be arguably the best player to have ever played without the juice. Steroids created this Barry Bonds - the greatest player ever. Semantics. They didn't make him a great player. If you wat to argue that they made a great player greater, fine...I still don't see the "tragedy."

....green font? you don't think people have cheated in pretty much every era of the game? Players were using speed in the 70s, who knows what in the 80s. Steriods were just the latest fad 10 years ago, as far as I'm concerned. Ever since players started making big bucks, it's just gotten worse and worse. Some scientist in some lab is working on inventing the next great supplement that isn't a steroid and isn't HGH that will give its takers an unfair advantage over the non-takers. That's a completely inaccurate perception of the history of steroids and PED's. They go back a lot longer than the 90's.

Maybe as of right now, but longevity is key. He needs to stay injury-free. How do we know that Pujols is clean? The real tragedy about all of this is you can't believe any player's stats. There's no "tragedy." A great player is a great player for most of their career. Steroids doesn't create great players like that.

No, I will not.

His overall numbers end up looking pretty good, but he was awful for almost half the season last year.

Yeah, all the spitballs, "trick" pitches, gambling, throwing games, sharpened cleats, corked bats, pine tar, uppers and on and on and on and on are what made it SO damn pure.

Bonds, ARod, Clemens, and McGwire won't make the HOF. That is certainly something to be gained. mcgwire is at least borderline but you aren't gaining anything by keeping out bonds, arod and clemens. they're three of the all-time greats with or without steroids, and it's just embarrassing to the voters and the hall itself if those guys aren't elected. to me it isnt a question of "were they good enough with or without steroids". the fact they contributed to the integrity damage of the game automatically eliminates them IMO. Steroids saved baseball.

In 1999 his games played began tailing off. He had only been inured once before that. Bonds began taking steroids in 99. You're leaping from point A to point Z. You'd have to explain how if you're going to clam such a thing.

Barry was very healthy right up until 2000 when he started taking steroids. The original SI article documents this pretty clearly if I remember correctly. Just wait 10-20 years. Bonds' body will deteriorate much more quickly than the average baseball player's body. That's pretty tenuous evidence. Steroids ruined his knees? How?

Using a substance to break cherished records or unnaturally inflate statistics is awesome? If you like seeing big huge goons wack something around, try WWE. Forget the home runs...I like 'em just for how they kept guys off the DL and could prolong peak years and awesome careers.

Steroids were a problem? I thought they were pretty freakin' awesome.

That doesn't make him leading off a problematic "issue." What a horrible argument. 6 games trumps 324 games? The Cub don't only play teams in their division, and the NLC was hardly "watered down" last year with the Brewers, Cardinals and even the Astros in the playoffs hunt for almost the whole season. And Soriano's "costly late inning defense?" Just stop.

Remarkable detective work, sir.

I have seen more than enough. And if being creeped out by an entire country isn't a sign of some sort of psychological issue/neurosis, I don't know what is. Yeah, my bad. The used panty vending machines and tentacle rape cartoon porn are perfectly normal.

I think anyone who isn't creeped out by it hasn't seen enough of it. Japan in general creeps me out.

Soto obviously already has more than 25 penises.

Troof.

Isn't that a moot point in regards to Roberts? Angelos wasn't going to part with him.

I understand that but he hires people to run it he doesn't run it for him. Yes a GM overseas it Step 1: bring the Cubs' farm system back to America.

Neither can I, but I love the end result.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaah-waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah-waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Love the Cardinals losing and especially love Warner losing. Take your stupid, almost a lie backstory and retire.

This is great. Screw the Cardinals.

SOMEONE GOT SERVED, EH, FELLOWS?