"I can't even tell how you may pain pills I am on or how many sleeping pills I'm taking," Bonds said. "I don't have a choice. I can't even run that much anymore. How can I run? I don't have any cartilage in that knee. I'm bone on bone.
"But I can still hit. I can rake. I can hit a baseball."
Additional info Toward the end of the first page of this Murray Chass column, Kevin Brown makes his retirement official.
So let's not pitch to him and keep him somewhere between Ruth and Aaron on the all-time list.
True, I'm a Dodger fan. I've been living in enemy territory for almost Barry's entire career with the Jints, and he has only very briefly flirted with a public image where one could believe that he brings some sort of personal value to the earth. Instead, he has consistently portrayed himself as a non-human, as something outside of the normal social order of life.
Plus, I just cannot believe he did not know what he was taking, or that not knowing excuses him in any way. He's most likely a doper, and while Ruth might have been a boozer and a womanizer, Aaron was and is an honorable man whose accomplishment deserves to stand up, past the scandal of the juice.
Whatever happened to the tax evasion stuff? It sounded, for a while, like he was on his way to the big house (no less than any Giant deserves), but I haven't heard anything since.
True, I'm a Dodger fan. I've been living in enemy territory for almost Barry's entire career with the Jints, and he has only very briefly flirted with a public image where one could believe that he brings some sort of personal value to the earth. Instead, he has consistently portrayed himself as a non-human, as something outside of the normal social order of life.
Plus, I just cannot believe he did not know what he was taking, or that not knowing excuses him in any way. He's most likely a doper, and while Ruth might have been a boozer and a womanizer, Aaron was and is an honorable man whose accomplishment deserves to stand up, past the scandal of the juice.
So let's not pitch to Barry.
It's not like Armando Benitez hasn't done the same before.
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