[cincinnati65]

My point is: This increase in performance has been accomplished by others in the past. You can't use exceptional on-the-field performance increases in your late 30's as your yardstick for measuring whether or not Bonds or any other player juices.

The bottom line is short of your sitting on Barry Bonds' shoulder for the past seven years or a documented failed drug test, EVERYTHING is conjecture. No one has presented a single piece of evidence other than "He looks big, and plays ball too good for a forty-year old." Heck, even Nolan Ryan threw a no-hitter at 44. You want to talk about the improbability of THAT?

[KurtZ]

You yourself posted evidence that he has used steroids. Here, let me re-quote the quote you posted.

"Bonds testified that he had received and used clear and cream substances from his personal strength trainer, Greg Anderson, during the 2003 baseball season but was told they were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a rubbing balm for arthritis, according to a transcript of his testimony reviewed by The Chronicle." -- San Francisco Chronicle, 12/3/04

[wireman]

Nolan Ryan didn't double in size when he was 35. He was ALWAYS a power pitcher. Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth were ALWAYS home run hitters.

Without help from a chemistry set, people don't change the way Bonds has. C'mon!

[Flightdeck]

"No one has presented a single piece of evidence other than "He looks big,...."

Why aren't you acknowledging that Bonds has admitted to (unknowingly) using steroids, ("the cream" and "the clear")??

[Publius Valerius]

No one has presented a single piece of evidence other than "He looks big, and plays ball too good for a forty-year old."

You obviously haven't read the SI article or some of the documentation that accompanies it. There's a list of people as long as my arm that talked about how they either sold steroids to Bonds or personally witnessed his steroid use.

[Bryan24]

You said - No one has presented a single piece of evidence other than "He looks big, and plays ball too good for a forty-year old."

You must have not read the article. The guys who gave Bonds the stuff testified to a Federal Grand Jury. They gave amounts, dates, frequency, type, a full laundry list of what Bonds was taking.

Your defense of Bonds is laughable.