So Big Papi is protecting the Barry. Good enough. Story here in the Boston Herald.
David Ortiz believes Bonds needs to be cheered. Loudly.
“He deserves respect,” Ortiz said Sunday in Minneapolis. “People are not going to give it to him because of all the bad things running around, this and that, but people need to realize. I’ve heard a lot of different things about Barry Bonds, but people should just admit it - this guy’s a bad (expletive).”
Papi doesn't feel the use of PEDs affect the baseball swing. And likely he may be correct. Then again he might not be right. No one has measured the velocity of a swing on and off 'roids. However, the juice may decrease joint stiffness, improve muscle recovery, increase power and explosiveness, ramp up aggressiveness..etc. etc. But why split hairs, huh?
“To hit the frickin’ ball, the guy makes it look easy, but it ain’t. I don’t know how you can have that swing, consistently. I don’t know how steroids can do that,” Ortiz said. “There are supposed to be guys using steroids in the game, and there’s nobody close to Barry Bonds. What’s that mean? He was using the best (expletive)? Know what I’m saying?”
Ortiz is not sure how he would feel if someone ever were to prove to him that Bonds took steroids. It sounds as if it would not matter.
“I don’t look at it like that. I look at it hitting-wise, because I don’t know what steroids can do to you as a baseball player. You’ve still got to swing the bat, man,” Ortiz said. “If I ever use steroids, and then I know what the difference can be and I’m using them, I’ll tell you, ‘Yeah, whatever,’ but I don’t know what the feelings are when you use the steroids. But I can tell you how it feels to pull yourself together to swing the bat.”
Ortiz says that Bud Selig should be at the Bonds' game.
No matter where Bonds breaks Aaron’s mark, Ortiz wants commissioner Bud Selig to be there.
“He’s just making things worse,” Ortiz said of Selig’s inconclusive remarks about attending. “He’s the commissioner, there’s nothing you can do about it. You can’t be saying that. What are people going to think about the game? They’ll be like, ‘This game is a joke.’ He should come, even if he doesn’t want to.”
Despite revelations in “Game of Shadows,” the book by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams that offers a damning chain of evidence linking BALCO and a number of baseball players, including Bonds, Ortiz said he is unaware of any evidence that Bonds used steroids.
“Have they proved he used steroids?” Ortiz asked. “But it was a cream or something he was using. He wasn’t injecting anything, right?”
Actually wrong, Papi. Evidence says Bonds injected HGH, insulin, and anabolic steroids. But why split hairs huh? As the Herald says:
Ortiz has an almost willful naivete about both Bonds and steroids. He still does not believe in his heart or his head that Bonds took steroids. And even if it were proven to him, Ortiz still would not link it to what Bonds does with a baseball bat.
The Babes of Baseball (Babes Love Baseball) have an interesting take:
He (Papi) certainly didn't juice while he was in Minnesota, or the slugger would still be there. Ortiz never hit more than 20 homers or 75 RBIs in the 6 seasons he was there and was never paid more than $1 million salary.
STERIODS ARE BAD
Posted by: | 12/12/2008 at 08:32