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Originally posted by CA theta
Car, being the big Barry fan I know you are, here's an article I just read which you might be interested in reading:
Talking Baseball: Bonds talks about Yanks, steroids issue
June 11, 2002
By Ed Randall
SportsTicker Contributing Editor
NEW YORK (TICKER) -- Barry Bonds believed he was going to be a member of the New York Yankees 10 years ago when he became a free agent after playing with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
"They were the first team to talk to me. But George (Steinbrenner) was suspended from baseball," Bonds said. "I think if George had anything to do with it, I would have probably have been a Yankee at the time."
Bonds addressed numerous subjects when I interviewed him on Saturday, including the reported use of steroids by major league players.
"If you're gonna point fingers, point the fingers at the right people and not the rest of us," Bonds said. "Two other players came out about an issue and now it's trickling down to everybody else and that part I feel is just not right. And I always seem to be the guy right at the top of the list.
"Unfortunately, I think that's really cruddy because I think I worked really hard to change a lot of things. I think I worked really hard to embrace the public a little bit more as well as the public embracing me last year. It just seems like they're kicking me in the tooth again. But that's OK. I've been kicked at before and I'm OK with it."
Bonds on performance enhancers:
"You're gonna take advantage of what's legal. Some people are going to cheat. Society cheats every day. I'm not going to say that I don't take vitamins. I'm not going to say that I don't take protein drinks and shakes and things like that because I do. These kids in today's era are a lot bigger, a lot stronger, a lot faster and if you can't keep up, you're going to be retired. You have to do what you need to do to keep up with a lot of kids. You just want to do it fairly."
On how important it is for him to be embraced like Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa:
"I don't know because with me it's always something. I'm a bad guy from the beginning. I set the record in home runs and all of a sudden that year I'm a nice person. Now this year it's the big steroid issue. I can't win period. I don't think about it. I feel that I am embraced a lot more so than I have ever been and I'm very appreciative of that. I go to stadiums and there's a lot more cheers overriding boos nowadays than there was earlier in my career and that's very gratifying to me." ...
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Thanks Ang for finding that for me! Barry is without a doubt my favorite baseball player. It aggravates me that people seem to focus more on what a "bad person" Bonds is, rather than what he has accomplished. Bonds is just amazing, and whether he is rude or whatnot, how are we supposed to know, unless we actually know him?? He has never been in the news for drugs or raping somebody or whatever...and I think the media shoud just lay off him! He does a lot for charity, and I've seen a lot more interviews with him being totally amicable than him being rude. And plus, how would someone feel if a reporter kept on shoving a mike in his face every freakin minute?
I am just so happy that he will retire a San Francisco Giant! He is just one of the best baseball players ever (if not the best of the best), and I am just so proud he is a Bay Area boy
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