It's all self inflicted with Bonds because what we remember with him is the steroids leading to the single season and all time HR records, but his stats through 98 (if we accept that he only started using steroids after 98, or at least heavily) are insane. He was already the only 400 HR/400 stolen base guy (still is, though he ended up with over 500 SBs). Multiple time MVP and like 7 or 8 golden gloves. Absolute freak and absolute asshole. I'm really not sure why hall of fame voters have such a stick up their asses with him and Clemens when plenty of other steroid users (and earlier speed users) are in.
The amount of IBBs he had was hilarious. Even with bases loaded.
I had to look up the walks: he was only walked once with the bases loaded but in his career he had 688 IBBs, Pujols is 2nd with 300 fewer IBBs. Bonds, with or without steroids, was so much better than people remember.
But after the ball hits the bat, it goes further.
This is laughable
When he was in his 20s
Yeah, from the outfielders glove, further, into the San Francisco Bay. Thats kind of the whole point.
Bonds was on steroids when he was skinny as well. Just like Lance Armstrong or Sean O'Malley were on PEDs despite being lanky. You can find tons of athletes on steroids that are rail thin and small. Bonds started taking an entirely different steroid regiment once he got hooked in with the BALCO people and that caused his body to bloat.
Lance and the boys really weren't taking steroids, at least not anabolic steroids. Testosterone, sure, at times but EPO was/is the king over there.
Of course it helped him. I never said it didn't. But him making contact with the a ball wasn't done with steroids.
They were taking tons of testosterone and growth hormone. They just didn't get giant like Bonds because their only exercise was riding a bike. If you take tons of steroids and hormones but don't lift you'll build lean muscle without bulking up. This is why so many smaller athletes like bantamweight boxers or MMA fighters are popping for steroids despite being skinny and lanky.
They weren't. Or at least USPS/Discovery wasn't. The odd testosterone patch here or there but even Lance has said it was all about EPO.
Wrong. They were taking testosterone mixed with olive oil every day. Armstrong would have giant batches of this stuff made by their team doctor. And then he would pass it around to the rest of the team. These guys were literally on the strongest PED regimen for any athletes. All of their trainers were really just pharmacists and nurses who kept them all doped up for the entire season. Injecting them with hormones and steroids every day.
