Barry Bonds Hospitalized

Yahoo! ^ | August 31, 2003 | Mel Reisner

[mrobison]

PHOENIX - Barry Bonds was hospitalized Sunday night because of exhaustion following his father's death.

Bonds was scratched from San Francisco's lineup just minutes before Sunday night's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, one day after he left a game because of an accelerated heart rate.

[cinFLA]

Here's the fact:

Here's the facts.

You have posted that he has taken several extra cross-country trips resulting in extra flying time. FACT: HE HAS NOT and you have not supported your claim.

You have posted that he missed the all-star game to be with his father. FACT: HE DID NOT miss the all-star game.

[cinFLA]

Here's his game log, you see those "did not plays"? That's time watching his father die.

You mean sort of like how he missed the all-star game to be with his father?

[discostu]

I didn't say you did.

No they don't add up to that. They add up to him bulking up both through the normal aging process (which tends to make us bigger, though usually not in a good way) and through a change in his workout regimen. If you're a gymrat then you know there are multiple kinds of workouts, you can workout for quickness and agility which doesn't tend to add bulk, you can workout for endurance which might add to add bulk, or you can workout for strength which does tend to add bulk. Bonds was quick but not terribly durable and not very strong.

Sorry still not buying it.

There's nothing wrong with protein diets. Ephedrin is basically a light weight speed that also is good for your sinuses and helps you breath (Sudafed being the brand name for psuedo-ephedrin, more popular than the real thing because it's not as addictive but the real thing is still out there in the allergy section of your local drugstore). I see no problem with athletes using these products.

People have been saying that lots of athletes dope for decades and we're just not seeing the side effects in their post athletic career. If they're all roiding they should all be dieing like Lyle Alzaido, they're not. Given that roids don't help the bones, ligaments or cartilidge it just doesn't add up to a good idea. Roiding up will make players more vulnerable to injury and shorten their career, meanwhile sports science has increased dramatically and we've learned a lot more about how to focus workouts for maximum results.

[discostu]

Whatever dude. You're not worth the time. I've provided your proof, meanwhile you've provided no proof to back your claim that he's a roid fiend. Backup your statement.

[cinFLA]

meanwhile you've provided no proof to back your claim that he's a roid fiend. Backup your statement.

I never made the claim! Why do you want me to back up something I never claimed.

[cinFLA]

Whatever dude. You're not worth the time. I've provided your proof,

You said he had made several extra cross-country trips but provided NO proof that he made any.

You said he missed the all-star game to be with his father and I posted the play-by-play of the game showing he did play!

I am 'not worth your time' since you have been exposed as posting on emotion rather than fact.

[discostu]

Here's your exact quote in post 7:
Would you wish that the doctor's NOT consider his past drug use when treating him?

Were you refering to a different drug perhaps? Either way doesn't matter, you've got no proof.

[cinFLA]

""A hospital is not a great place to rest," Conte said. "But the monitoring was the key. That's the reason he was in the hospital, and he had an uneventful night. Everything was normal in regards to his heart rate and all the other tests they did."

Seems like they were worried about something.

[discostu]

Fine whatever, thanks for letting me know you're a jackass. No more of your posts will be read, don't bother making them. Have a nice life, die in pain.

[csvset]

This just in, Barry Bonds singled to center scoring Eric Young and J.T. Snow with none out.

Giants go on to win 2-0.

[cinFLA]

Here's his game log, you see those "did not plays"? That's time watching his father die.

Here are THREE of his DNP's. When will you post some facts to back up your claims!

DENVER (May 24, 2003)-- Barry Bonds left the San Francisco Giants' game against the Colorado Rockies in the fifth inning Friday night after straining his right patella tendon.

Bonds

Bonds was injured in the fourth inning when he jumped up against the wall on a double by Preston Wilson. He stayed in the game, but came out after lining a single off the wall to lead off the fifth.

Bonds was not in the lineup for Saturday's game against the Rockies as he was set to have an MRI exam that day in Denver

[cinFLA]

Fine whatever, thanks for letting me know you're a jackass. No more of your posts will be read, don't bother making them. Have a nice life, die in pain.

Just because my posts have shown your posts to be totally without regard for the truth you call me a jackass? If you posted the truth then you would not have to resort to name calling.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

You supported the claim that steroids was the reason and cited his "past drug use". I assume you must have meant tylenol or something now, right? Surely you didn't mean to agree with steroids, right?

You make wild accusations, and when someone calls you on it, you go nuts and make personal comments, refuse to back up your claims and demand apologies.

Get a life.

You accused Bonds of drug usage and that it played a part in this. Let's see you give proof. When you do, I'll answer.

[cinFLA]

You make wild accusations, and when someone calls you on it, you go nuts and make personal comments, refuse to back up your claims and demand apologies.

Let me remind how YOU started attcking me for my simple statement that doctors should take into account his past drug use when evaluating his condition.

To: cinFLA

Most people? What, Are you now a know-it-all pollster, too? SHADDUP already. Sheese. He was CLOSE to his dad. Maybe that is something you can't understand.

9 posted on 08/31/2003 8:51 PM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican

[cinFLA]

You supported the claim that steroids was the reason

Show where I supported the claim that steroids was the reason.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Shortest book ever written, "The Greatest Post Season Clutch Hits of Barry Bonds".

I guess your TV was broken last fall.

[Sick of Lefties]

I was following the game on CBS Sportsline. You just knew the Giants would take the lead when he stepped to the plate. He's as nearly automatic as any player can be, certainly moreso than any other player in memory.

It was an especially important hit because Ponson had thrown 106 pitches over 8 innings of shutout ball. He's pitched some real gems since coming over from the Orioles, and been bitterly disappointed for his efforts a couple of times. The Giants are going to need him to get over the 50-year hump that they came a matter of outs from surmounting last year.

Giants fans are witnessing a drama that played out for Steve Young and the 49ers nearly a decade ago: getting the monkey off of one's back. And we've got a chance, because we've got Barry. My chips are on him, and my best wishes are with him.

The year before he captured the single-season home-run record, I realized something shocking. I was watching another player as great as Willie Mays, my boyhood idol. Willie was a god (small "g"), and I was enjoying the magnificence of another ballplayer with all the tools, sense of drama, downright uniqueness and panache--albeit, with a different, less inviting persona. How lucky can a baseball fan be?

So Barry is snappy with reporters, dumped his wife (which I don't approve of in anyone, including Ronald Reagan) and wears an impenetrable visage for the masses behind which he hides his tender feelings. Who cares? I loved Joe Montana, too, and he burned through two wives before settling down with his present one--he also wasn't a feelings meister. The reporters get what they deserve from him, and what more people would give them if they had Barry's nerve. It's OK with me if he wants to hide his sentiments. It only concerns me for him because maybe that's what's melting him down emotionally right now.

Barry Bonds is the greatest ballplayer I have ever watched, and I have followed him with my Giants-fan heart for over a decade now. His Homeric displays of baseball greatness are too numerous to recount, even those of just this past month. He is magnificent at what he does--nonpareil--and if some people can't appreciate him for what he does brilliantly for the fans as well as himself, then that's their loss.

When probed by "reporters" about steroids use, he replies that he's damm good without them and doesn't need them. He says that steroids don't hit the ball, he does (He's also won 8 gold gloves in left field). The steroid insinuation is just a groundless and malicious slur on someone that some people love to hate. I'm too busy loving him for what he means to his team, the city it represents, and the sport to waste a second tilting at windmills.

[B Knotts]

That was an excellent post!

[LongsforReagan]

You're right and should stick to what you know. You obviously dont know anything about sports science. Or steroids for that matter.

No offense.

[LongsforReagan]

Great post. Its alot easier to yell "steroids" even though its possible to do what he has done via hard work. Its even easier to paint him as a "cheater" when he perceived to be a jerk.