Harsh Words about Barry Bonds
It’s no secret how Red Sox ace Curt Schilling feels about Barry Bonds and the slugger’s chase to break Hank Aaron’s all time home run record. In an appearance a local radio show and to reporters of the Boston Globe, Schill openly states that Barry is a cheater, “he admitted to cheating on his wife, cheating on his taxes and cheating in the game.”
To my recollection Barry never actually admitted to using illegal substances or “cheating in the game” as Schilling put it. There does seem to be a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that he might have taken part, but I don’t believe anyone’s got a smoking gun.
I’ve said that if Barry had used performance enhancing drugs, then I’d rather have Hank Aaron’s record remain intact, but Curt Schilling seems to be both judge and jury in the Bond’s case, proclaiming that Barry “doesn’t deserve to break the record.”
I’m a Curt Schilling fan, I was crushed when the Phillies let him go, but isn’t there a saying - “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”
I’m as big a Phillies fan as there is, but even I suspect several of the guys from the ‘93 Phils (perhaps even Mr. Schilling himself) to have been using some performance enhancing drugs.
I think before you go blatantly accusing someone of wrong doing, you might want to have some concrete proof, especially if you could be accused of the very same thing.
Curt Schilling, Barry Bonds, steroids, Hank Aaron, homerun record
May 10th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Actually, you are wrong. Bonds admitted in grand jury testimony to using quite a few performance-enhancing drugs–”the cream”, “the clear”, a testosterone booster, and an estrogen mask to hide the above. He claims he used them unaware they were anything more than flaxseed or whatever but he did use them.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
He didn’t come right out and say “I took steroids” as Schilling indicated. He alluded to the fact that he used things people had given him without complete knowledge as to what they were.
May 10th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
And? Both of these statements are accurate(AFAIK):
Bonds didn’t knowingly take steroids.
Bonds did take steroids.
And, luckily for Schilling, those ARE two different statements.
Bonds said “I used the cream and the clear”…Conte said “The cream and the clear are steroids.” Case closed. Bonds used steroids. Schilling was right.
May 10th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Fair enough, but I wasn’t the only one that thought the statement was a miscue, Schilling himself posted an entry on his personal blog today entitled “public appology”
May 10th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
No doubt. I’m sure the water coolers at ESPN and FSN are entertaining today. Another scalp on the wall. Journalism 201–How to Make a Mountain Out of a Molehill. Schilling deserved the heat for the personal shots. If marital fidelity were a prerequisite for celebrity People would be a pamphlet instead of a magazine…maybe even a flier. Sports Illustrated too. Skewering the guy over Bonds and steroids is Bizarro world.