Stand & Cheer for Barry Bonds

With the baseball season opening tomorrow, I want to thank former President Clinton for his steroids related comments on the Larry King Show last night (click here or excerpts after the jump)...

If Barry Bonds actually did take steroids (and, in this country, I believe one is still innocent until proven guilty), he didn't break any rules of baseball at the time.  When he comes to Washington, I will stand and cheer for his awesome power, prowess and the undisputed fact that he is the greatest player to ever play the game.  Go Barry.

--Tom Galvin

     KING: ...What do you think of the steroid investigation in baseball?

CLINTON: Well I have mixed feelings about it. First of all, keep in mind that as I understand it Major League Baseball did not adopt a clear, unequivocal ban on steroid use with consequences, like the Olympics has had for years until recently.

     KING:  Right.

CLINTON: So, I think that for years people acted like the baseball players should not do this as long as we were looking down our nose at them but not doing anything. Well, my experience is in politics and everything else if you're in a great contest with high stakes, people will do what it takes to win within the framework of the rules.

So, I think a distinction needs to be made about steroid use before Major League Baseball clearly and unequivocally ban it with consequences and afterward. Secondly, I think the timing looks a little funny that we're doing it after some fellow published a book. I don't know that we know a thing more or less than we did before that book was published.

And so, I think that we ought to be a little -- it's clear now that there is an overwhelming, perhaps unanimous consensus among the owners and the players and the representatives and the media that steroid use is not only bad for the players it's bad for the game and it's wrong and it should be banned and there should be consequences for violating the ban.

     KING:  Right.

CLINTON: But I think we have to be careful looking back before that was the rule and even before that was the consensus and, you know, for me I trust George Mitchell. He's a good man. He's a smart man. He'll be fair. He'll try to find out what happened.

But when the rest of us decide what we think should be done about whatever is found we need to remember that baseball itself was highly ambivalent about doing anything about this, facing the truth and having strict rules for years and years and years.

So now we have the rules. Let's go forward and enforce them. But I think, you know, looking back and looking down on people who -- and trying to claim that, you know, things that happened five, ten years ago in their careers weren't real because they did this, I think that's a little hypocritical. Where were we then and why didn't we ban it then if that's the way we feel?

             KING:  So true.  Anything else?

CLINTON:  The good people at 463 told me to say happy April 1.            

Comments

[Jonathan Trenn]

I can't stand Bonds. He's an arrogant, egotistical jerk...as apparently know as a we're finding out, not much of a family man. BUT...this is major league baseball's problem. The owners, the players, the union, and even us, the fans.

The Holy Grail of the home run and record chasing brought in tons of cold hard $$$ for owners to spend, for players to 'earn'. They all knew what was going on...and did little to stop it. What we're seeing now is the results of that decision to not take any action.

If we assume Bonds was taking steroids when he did, then it was baseball as a whole that allowed him to do that.

I hope Bonds retires before he breaks Aaron's record, but if he doesnt't, first put the blame on the whole of baseball itself.

[Angry in LA]

Bonds did break the rules. So are you implying that baseball allows performing enhancing drugs? Read the bylaws, and you will find Bonds broke the rules.

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Typical Dodger fan. Can't stay at a game past the 7th inning and can't read an entire post before commenting. ;)

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