March 14, 2006
Another Bonds Book
Jeff Perlman is about to publish a biography of Barry Bonds. He presents an excerpt adapted from the book in ESPN the Magazine. Here's the most damning paragraph, describing a dinner after the 1998 season:
On an otherwise ordinary night, over an otherwise ordinary meal, Griffey, Bonds, a rep from an athletic apparel company and two other associates chatted informally about the upcoming season. With Griffey's framed memorabilia as a backdrop, and Mark McGwire's obliteration of the single-season home run record a fresh memory, Bonds spoke up as he never had before. He sounded neither angry nor agitated, simply frustrated. "You know what," he said. "I had a helluva season last year, and nobody gave a crap. Nobody. As much as I've complained about McGwire and Canseco and all of the bull with steroids, I'm tired of fighting it. I turn 35 this year. I've got three or four good seasons left, and I wanna get paid. I'm just gonna start using some hard-core stuff, and hopefully it won't hurt my body. Then I'll get out of the game and be done with it."
It just keeps getting worse.
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I had doubts about Barry Bonds steroid use say, six months ago, but they have just about been wiped entirely clean by now. It's a shame...
Who had the tape recorder? Quite an eloquent quote remembered 7 1/2 years later. However, Griffey doesn't remember it. See the mlb site.
Would anyone know how to find out if Jay Canizaro was even in spring training? He definitely wasn't a Giant in 97 or 98 and played only in late September 99.
I don't understand why this is more believable than anything we've heard before. Is there some supporting evidence, because it doesn't sound at all like Bonds.
I think the fact that the stuff just keeps piling up really makes the situation worse. I never had any doubts that Bonds was not playing fair, to put it mildly. While it is easy to make fun of the situation, this is a very serious issue that deserves every bit of the attention that it's getting.
Griffey's not under oath, and he's not about to sell out a fellow player. That being said, a tape recorder would have helped a hell of a lot.
Barry Bonds could inject himself with HGH while playing left field and I wouldn't care at this point. He's selfish, a good case can be made for him being racist and he made himself the best player in the game no matter what it took. The last guy that did that was the first guy they put in the Hall of Fame.
