The Last Barry Bonds Diary Needed

Too much has been put squarely on Barry Bonds for this whole "Steroids Era" thing.  I get into it with friends all of the time (many of whom aren't giants fans, i didn't know that there were non-giants fans).  And I ask them two simple questions, which they can not answer:

1.  When did the steriods era being?
2.  When did it end?

So what, Barry is about to break the great homerun record.  Roger Clemens has over 300 wins, has anyone checked his medicine cabinet yet?  sure he is sucking this year, but dude hasn't gotten any smaller is his 40s.

The only reason Barry Bonds is being thrown under the bus is because he is a "bad guy".  ask any reporter and they will tell you.  So because he is/was a bad guy to the press, they feel they have to create all of this "controversy" over the whole steroids thing.  is it cheating if you are taking a substance that isn't banned? or wasn't banned at the time?  i realize these are new ideas, but i get sick and tired of listening to midnight sports talk (look i was coming home from a concert and it was either midnight sports talk or hair growing commercials) and all of these idiots, who have never spoke to the guy, saying what a bad guy he is and he is a cheater and all of that shit.

i don't think anyone can argue that he didn't take anything, of course he did.  but so has everyone.  and just because he is at the brink of the "impossible" and he is a bad guy, we need to write books about him and boo even louder than normal (except when he hits a homerun then we stand and cheer).  i say F-U to all of the bonds haters.  i don't like the guy personally either, but i am not asking him to be a nice guy.  i am asking him to contribute to the teams success on the field.  if he wants to shoot up with roids, who the hell cares.  i haven't once heard him say to the kids that they should try it.

and they call them "performance enhancing" drugs.  isn't working out performance enhancing?  i mean i don't remember seeing mantle, aaron, ruth, cobb, williams, etc, lifting a weight.  hell most of them were lifting a beer.  it wasn't until the late 70s and early 80s did weight lifting start to become the thing to do.  so why isn't pujols or a-rod treated like bonds?  well, because they talk to the media, all media.  

so for the last time, so what, bonds has taken steriods, other players have and other players still are.  so to the media, go fuck yourselves.  and lastly, to san diego, thank you for showing class as he hit it.  it is nice to see that there are still people who appreciate the rare talent that bonds is, roids or not.