[Lefty Noob]

Well, as I'm sure most of you have heard by now, Giants OF Barry Bonds tested positive for amphetamines last season. Now, he claims it was because of something he took from a teammate's locker. The teammate is denying it, and no one is saying what this mysterious substance was. ESPN is now reporting that the Giants knew about the failed test when they resigned him. What do you guys think about all of this?

[azrael492]

This has to be a second failed test if it is becoming public. The first one is supposed to be anonymous.

How does somebody that is in the kind of trouble that Bonds is take a substance he doesn't know what it is???

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

Well, as I'm sure most of you have heard by now, Giants OF Barry Bonds tested positive for amphetamines last season. Now, he claims it was because of something he took from a teammate's locker. The teammate is denying it, and no one is saying what this mysterious substance was. ESPN is now reporting that the Giants knew about the failed test when they resigned him. What do you guys think about all of this?

I think "Hall of Famer" first ballot...just like Big Mac...

I think when they start taking Pulitzer prizes for writers being on speed to meet a deadline...the writers who vote for the HOF might stop feeling they are "pristine pillars of all that's moral"....

[simple simon]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

I think "Hall of Famer" first ballot...just like Big Mac...

I think when they start taking Pulitzer prizes for writers being on speed to meet a deadline...the writers who vote for the HOF might stop feeling they are "pristine pillars of all that's moral"....

sometimes i think you type things just to piss me off

he broke the rules........cheated.........took a drug to get an advantage

what more do you want ?

do you have a man-crush on Bonds ?

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by simple simon

sometimes i think you type things just to piss me off

he broke the rules........cheated.........took a drug to get an advantage

what more do you want ?

do you have a man-crush on Bonds ?

Leave my man crushes out of this...

Hall of Famer 1st ballot...Gaylord Perry broke the rules left and right...got glorified for it and is in the Hall...Baseball turns its back on a sport with over 50% popping pills...so you have pill takers squaring off against pill takers and the commish looking the other way...so who has the advantage?...and while you are at it...they haven't made the pill that improves eyesight and hand eye coordination that hitters like Bonds need...or else every one would have a +.500 on base precentage...

The guy belongs in Hall next to Rose, Big Mac, and Shoeless Joe...I never like Palmero all that much...but I am not opposed from adding Jose Canseco...

[Gotham Dark Knight]

PS BTW, Add the great Whitey Ford as people who have cheated to get an edge...he would carve up the ball with an edge of his wedding ring...

But hey, that cheater is in the HOF...

[EmpireWF]

The Giants haven't officially re-signed him yet, they're still negotiating details of the contract.

As for the positive test, I don't think it means much. If he tests positive again for it, he'll get suspended for 25 games though. Amphetamine usage was a normal part of playing the game for decades. At least MLB just started to look out for their players health and banned some of them.

[Lefty Noob]

This is a first failed test that was somehow leaked to the New York Daily News. Most people believe it was someone from the commissioner's office that was the "anonymous" source. Bonds faces up to six additional tests this year for banned substances. Someone in baseball really wants to get rid of this guy, and I can't say I blame them.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

This is a first failed test that was somehow leaked to the New York Daily News. Most people believe it was someone from the commissioner's office that was the "anonymous" source. Bonds faces up to six additional tests this year for banned substances. Someone in baseball really wants to get rid of this guy, and I can't say I blame them.

Come on now...they help create the Monster...he and Big Mac put money in owners pocket after they almost destroyed the game...and now they want to nail him to the cross...FREAKIN HYPOCRITES...that's all I got to say...why should he take the fall for Bud "I look the other way" Selig?

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by simple simon

sometimes i think you type things just to piss me off

he broke the rules........cheated.........took a drug to get an advantage

what more do you want ?

do you have a man-crush on Bonds ?

Simon, take off the rose colored glasses. I don't disagree with you but in todays world punishment is progressive, not immediate. Strawberry wasn't removed from baseball after the first positive test. Lord knows he should have been but again ... punishment is generally passed out in a progressive manner. That is the way our justice system works and if you didn't know it yet here is another fact. The more famous you are and the more money you have, the less punishment there actually is.