Barry Bonds: Slugger, Victim of Media Smear, All-Around Great Guy ( HA!)

For those of you who believe it is possible to naturally put on 40 pounds of lean muscle as you near 40 years of age, for those of you who believe that your head can grow 4 hat sizes naturally, for those who believe a jump of 24 homeruns over your career best 49 late in your career is feasible without performance enhancing drugs, I say READ ON you dumb shits:


According to an upcoming book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters, Bonds used a vast array of performance-enhancing drugs -- including steroids and human growth hormone -- for at least five seasons beginning in 1998.

73 home runs

When Bonds entered the league in 1986, he was a wiry phenom listed at 6-foot-1, 185 pounds.



In the 2001 season, he was 6-2 and pushing 230 -- a linebacker in a baseball uniform.



Bonds hit a career-high 49 home runs during the 2000 season, but within days of the last game, he set his sights on 2001.

On Oct. 5, 2001, Bonds broke the season home run record set just three years earlier by Mark McGwire. Speaking that night at Pac Bell Park, the Giants slugger thanked several people, including Anderson *. Bonds finished the season with 73 home runs.

*Greg Anderson: Personal trainer who worked with Barry Bonds. Like Victor Conte, Anderson pleaded guilty to steroid distribution and money laundering in exchange for a six-month prison sentence. On Oct. 18, 2005, Anderson was sentenced to three months behind bars and three months in home confinement.

Gary Sheffield: Told Sports Illustrated that he used a cream in 2002 without realizing it contained a steroid. Major League Baseball said it would not punish Sheffield for the admission. He said he was introduced to BALCO by Barry Bonds, from whom he has since severed ties.

Jason Giambi: According to alleged grand jury testimony published in the San Francisco Chronicle, admitted using human growth hormone and steroids obtained from Greg Anderson. Yankees outfielder played in only 80 games in 2004 with a tumor reported to be in his pituitary gland. One of the drugs Giambi was asked about can exacerbate pituitary tumors.

Jeremy Giambi: Also according to the Chronicle report, admitted using human growth hormone and steroids, also supplied by Anderson. The former major league outfielder spent 2004 in the minor leagues.


Now Barry, just because I think you're a cheating, low-life, scumbag, just because I'd rather see Osama Bin Laden knock the Babe and Hank Aaron from the record books, just because a shark wouldn't eat you if you fell from a boat out of professional courtesy, DON'T DESPAIR!. The Hammer got ya back!! Here's the latest from MC Hammer's Blog :

Dear Barry,
Under no circumstances are you allowed to quit, exit , leave, retire, walkout or any other form of saying bye that would equate to you aborting the mission. This is not your mission alone. This is baseball's, and millions of baseball fans mission. For all of us who played the game and the love the game, to see you walkout while in earshot of the all time most prestigious record in the game of baseball would be a slap in our collective faces. Don't let the bloodhounds shake you. You have to realize and understand that sensationalism sells. This new book timed for your historical season is strictly business and nothing personal.

Bloodhounds smell and sniff out blood. Every story written about steroids means nothing to us in the know. While we don't endorse, support or condone the usage of steroids in any shape or form, we also are keenly aware of the hand eye coordination and science of hitting that is necessary to hit on the level of excellence that you do Barry. Nobody does it better. No one has done it better. As you close in on the record, and the day of reckoning is at hand, there will be many attemps by the bloodhounds to shake you and force you to quit. Old girlfriends, used car dealers, former barbers, and even fix and repair men. You name them, the stories are coming. Each one meant to somehow discredit your skills and accomplishments even though they have nothing to do with the game. They want to discourage, pressure you and stress you out, literally. Barry don't let them fool you. You are loved by many. I love you. You have brought me so much joy in your mastery of the game of baseball. Don't let the bloodhounds win. Finish the mission. Do it for San Francisco, do it for baseball, do it for your kid's, do it for your Dad (R.I.P.), and do it for yourself.

Barry,
you deserve to be the all time greatest homerun hitter in baseball history. The hounds, they deserve the dog pound.



BARRY, THE HAMMER LOVES YOU. EVERYONE ELSE THINKS YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE. QUIT NOW, BEFORE YOU DISGRACE BASEBALL ANY FURTHER.

MLB: THE FACT THAT YOU CAN BAN A PLAYER LIKE CHARLIE HUSTLE BUT STILL ALLOW A PIECE OF SHIT LIKE BONDS ON THE FIELD TO THREATEN ONE OF THE THE MOST IMPORTANT BASEBALL RECORDS IS ( in two words) FUCKING RIDICULOUS!