If Barry Bonds gets the record, it should have an asterisk next to it
March 31, 2007Barry Bonds is just 22 home runs shy of Hank Aaron’s 755 home run record. Unless some physical or legal condition keeps him off the field, he’ll almost surely hit the record sometime this season. But when he gets the record it will come with a tremendous cloud hanging over it: just how many of those home runs were steroid-assisted?
Maybe he’s clean, maybe those home runs are all clean. Yet you have to wonder–the rumours have been persistent, and have come from so many different sources.
And there’s the simple physical evidence, Bonds is so much bigger today than when he started playing the game. Is that just training and lots of protein shakes? Or is it chemically-assisted?
I guess we’ll know for sure if his face starts to get all pock-marked, like Mark McGwire was towards the end of his career. Supposedly that’s one of the eventual side-effects from too much steroid consumption.