Oh please. Players have been trying to enhance their performance since the game was invented. Spikes in shoes, braces for knees and elbows, weightlifting straps for back support, vitamins, steaks, protein diets, aspirin and ibuprofin.... something new every year. Point is, you can have all that stuff, but if you haven’t got the talent, you’re gonna strike out.
Barry Bonds does have talent. He has MASSIVE amounts of talent! I remember when he was with the Pirates and everyone would oooh and ahhh over Andy Van Slyke (sp) when they had an astounding player in the form of Barry Bonds in the field.
The problem is though that Barry Bonds tainted his greatness and his records by the use of steroids. In addition he is generally regarded as being one of the biggest a**holes in baseball. If he had not used steroids he would have at least 550 home runs, possibly over 600 (This assumes that he stayed healthy. Another benefit of steroids is accelerated healing of injuries.). He would be a shoe in for first ballot into the Hall of Fame.
Barry Bonds is bad for baseball.
Barry Bonds is a bad example of humanity.
I wish I could say I wish him no ill will, but I would be lying.
‘nuff said!
Try hitting a ball coming at you at 90 MPH with a bat, even if it comes at you from a pitching machine and you know it is coming right down the middle of the plate. When a human being is throwing it, he may keep you from seeing where it is until it is two-thirds of the way to the plate. And HE knows within inches of where the ball is headed. Like hitting a mesquito with a bat in twilight.