First off, it's a new day for the SMOG. This page looks a little different, but I am now able to post more often, and I can publish my ramblings without anybody's help. That means I'll be writing more. If I get an idea at 3am, after I get home from the clubs, I can string together some thoughts.
So I crack open the LA Times today (actually, I logged onto the LA Times website), and I red that Frank McCourt wants Dodger fans to be civil, and he thinks that booing Barry Bonds is the wrong thing to do.
C'mon Frank. You know I'm a McCourt fan, but Dodger fans should be fans that stand for something - fans of principal. I don't endorse throwing things on the field, or shouting obscenities, or making obscene gestures. There still needs to be a sense ofr decorum. But, no Dodger fan should cheer Barry Bonds.
First of all, as I've been saying for years, Barry Bonds has admitted that he used steroids. He also claims that he didn't know they were steroids. We're expected to believe that he just rubbed "the creme" and "the clear" on his body without knowing what they were.
There's also absolutely no way to know that, when Barry steps into the batter's box tonight, he'll be "clean." We spoke to Patrick Arnold, the chemist who created the now infamous "clear" last week on The Big Show, and this guy verified what I've always said. There's no test for what Barry would be taking right now.
The way steroid testing works is that when an athlete pees in a cup, the testers are looking for certain by-products of known steroids. If there is a "designer steroid," as THG was, there's no way to test for it because the chemists don't know what the by-products are. That means that if Selig made Bonds get tested tonight, he could be on some steroid compound... say THB or TLC or BLT... and Barry would test negative for steroids. Also, Human Growth Hormone can only be tested by blood, and baseball's testing only allows urine testing, so Barry could also be on HGH.
If you're willing to cheat once, why would you suddenly stop cheating... especially if the chances of being caught are 0.00%.
When I hear people argue that Barry has never tested positive for steroids, it demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the issue. In the case of Bonds, a "designer steroid" junkie, we don't know what he's using, so we have to make desicions based on other "by-products." When you're personal trainer goes to jail for dealing steroids, when your name is mentioned in document after document seized from Balco, and when a Federal Grand Jury is ready to indict you for perjury, those by-products are enough to decide whether you cheated.
So Mr. McCourt, it's every Dodger fans responsibility to express their disapproval for who Barry is and what he stands for.
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