Bonds is critized for steroids while Shawne Merriman get complemented not stop.

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Barry Bonds has never tested positive for Steroids and at the time it wasn't against Major League rules to take steroids. Everyday people say Bonds is a cheater but he never tested positive. Shawn Merriman tested positive for steroids and he got suspended and the people forget all about it. People say hes the best defensive player in the league but in that sentence no one ever talks about him and steroids. I saw on ESPN some funny shit, some analyst was saying how Merriman was the best player and had 17 sacks in shorten season and how good he was, like he took those 4 games off to do charity work. HELLO HE TOOK FUCKIN ROIDS.

In football steroids can really help you, what does a line backer need strength and power. What do roids give you? strength and power.
You could be uncordinated and still be a great football player. In baseball steroids might give you a little extra muscle but it won't help you get cordinated. Football is mostly all about strength while baseball doesn't require as much strength, more about mechanics and cordination.

I'm not saying Bonds is hero but people should lay off him a little. It pisses me off so much when people talk about Shawne Merriman as great player without talking about the steroids. He actually got caught while Bonds never has.
 

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Bonds admitted to taking the clear stuff, knowing it was undetectable.
 

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Barry Bonds has never tested positive for Steroids and at the time it wasn't against Major League rules to take steroids. Everyday people say Bonds is a cheater but he never tested positive. Shawn Merriman tested positive for steroids and he got suspended and the people forget all about it. People say hes the best defensive player in the league but in that sentence no one ever talks about him and steroids. I saw on ESPN some funny shit, some analyst was saying how Merriman was the best player and had 17 sacks in shorten season and how good he was, like he took those 4 games off to do charity work. HELLO HE TOOK FUCKIN ROIDS.

In football steroids can really help you, what does a line backer need strength and power. What do roids give you? strength and power.
You could be uncordinated and still be a great football player. In baseball steroids might give you a little extra muscle but it won't help you get cordinated. Football is mostly all about strength while baseball doesn't require as much strength, more about mechanics and cordination.

I'm not saying Bonds is hero but people should lay off him a little. It pisses me off so much when people talk about Shawne Merriman as great player without talking about the steroids. He actually got caught while Bonds never has.

The way his hat size increased suggests he uses/used steroids.
His power numbers increasing as he got older suggest he uses/used steroids.
His pock marks/acne suggests he uses/used steroids.
His behavior suggests he uses/used steroids.

If it looks like shit, and smells like shit, than it must be shit.
 

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Bonds is a cheater, I don't let him get off the hook. Agreed though that Merriman is no better. Cheating is cheating in any sport.

Barry did admit to using but go dust off some film and take a look at the likes of Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa and Barry when they were younger. All three of these guys were transformed into hulkian figures of themselves years later.
 

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Bonds is a lowlife and about to take a record from a class act.

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I guess it's a question of environment because I never see Merriman mentioned without steroids being right there in the discussion. And I'm sure if he ever started a approaching some big all-time record (not that there is any record he could go for that would compare to the all-time HR mark) that criticism would only become louder.
 

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Isn't taking steroids against the law???
I don't understand how people say it's ok because it wasn't against MLB rules... it's against the law, that's a little more important than some MLB rule... ask Mike Vick about that.
 

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taking steroids are not against the law. Most steroids are legal drugs
 

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taking steroids are not against the law. Most steroids are legal drugs

Not legal? I must have lived under a rock for some time now. Wonder why Chris Benoit's steroid doctor got arrested the other day. I wonder why Balco's boys got arrested by the Feds. Must be for unrelated charges I guess.
 

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most of the roids in the u.s. come from germany or mexico. where i am from, when a bodybuilder wanna be gets busted for roids, the cops usually end up finding all kinds of stuff. coke, x, weed, meth. roid dealers usually have the hookup for anything you need. all the roids are illegal here in the states unless you have a doc.script
 

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Best evidence to me is visual, can't deny that. I'm sure however, that the Bonds supporters will think otherwise. 185lbs, now 240


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Barry Bonds has never tested positive for Steroids and at the time it wasn't against Major League rules to take steroids. Everyday people say Bonds is a cheater but he never tested positive. Shawn Merriman tested positive for steroids and he got suspended and the people forget all about it. People say hes the best defensive player in the league but in that sentence no one ever talks about him and steroids. I saw on ESPN some funny shit, some analyst was saying how Merriman was the best player and had 17 sacks in shorten season and how good he was, like he took those 4 games off to do charity work. HELLO HE TOOK FUCKIN ROIDS.

In football steroids can really help you, what does a line backer need strength and power. What do roids give you? strength and power.
You could be uncordinated and still be a great football player. In baseball steroids might give you a little extra muscle but it won't help you get cordinated. Football is mostly all about strength while baseball doesn't require as much strength, more about mechanics and cordination.

I'm not saying Bonds is hero but people should lay off him a little. It pisses me off so much when people talk about Shawne Merriman as great player without talking about the steroids. He actually got caught while Bonds never has.

An entire book has been written detailiing how and when Bonds took steroids. He never sued the writers of the book nor has he ever gotten in front of a microphone or camera and denied taking steroids. Merriman, on the other hand, did exactly that, and I for one, believe him. He tested dirty one time out of about 30 in a 6 month period, and different from Bonds, he had a valid excuse.

But the biggest reason why people support Merriman is that he is a likable and charismatic guy with a hard-luck story who came from nothing and made himself. Bonds is an asshole
 

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will say it again. if the media didn't pound this into our heads everyday and make us care about steroids nobody would care.
 

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Not legal? I must have lived under a rock for some time now. Wonder why Chris Benoit's steroid doctor got arrested the other day. I wonder why Balco's boys got arrested by the Feds. Must be for unrelated charges I guess.


The arrest was due to the amount of legal drugs that were prescribed. Benoit was prescribed like 20 times the normal dosage. You can legally take steroids under doctor supervision. Hell, I had steriods dropped into my eyes the other day so to say steroids are illegal would be a fallacy
 

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The arrest was due to the amount of legal drugs that were prescribed. Benoit was prescribed like 20 times the normal dosage. You can legally take steroids under doctor supervision. Hell, I had steriods dropped into my eyes the other day so to say steroids are illegal would be a fallacy


The steroids dropped into your eyes are different than the anabolic steroids athletes use to cheat. Anabolic steroids are legal for Doctors to prescribe for genuine medical conditions requiring anabolic steroids, which none of the athletes have so both their doctors(if they have a doctor) and the players using anabolic steroids(and HGH...human growth hormone) are in violation of the law.
 

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will say it again. if the media didn't pound this into our heads everyday and make us care about steroids nobody would care.

I disagree also, and more importantly, it's the players, who are NOT using the illegal performance enhancing drugs, who do care. The players union let the players down; they protected the cheaters to the detriment of the players who were not cheating!
 

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i can respect that, i just personally don't care. these players know its bad, if they want to risk there health and use them go ahead. all i really care about when I go to a game is being entertained.
 

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i can respect that, i just personally don't care. these players know its bad, if they want to risk there health and use them go ahead. all i really care about when I go to a game is being entertained.

And you don't care about cheating? What if it was you being cheated? Saying you just personally don't care is just as bad as the players cheating. You're like the guy who goes to the dogfight and says "I just want to be entertained".
 

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