Justice is Served: Barry Bonds #ALLSKILLS

[Johnny_Cakes]

My favorite part of the 2002 world series was when the Angels denied Bonds of his only chance at a ring. Great series 

Come on man, that avy is too much

 

[nomnom]

Watching Barry was essential to my childhood baseball memories. That 2001 season was unforgettable. Shame how much of an ego he had.

 

[dland24]

Taken from an article titled "Barry Bonds Was an Alien God Who Destroyed Space-Time To Bring Us Joy"

—Bonds drew 688 intentional walks in his career. There are 49 Hall of Fame position players who drew fewer walks of any kind in their entire careers.

—If Bonds had retired after the 1998 season, he would have done so with 99.6 career rWAR. This would rank him No. 32 all-time.

—If Bonds had retired after his age-27 season rather than signing with the San Francisco Giants, he would have done so with 50.1 career rWAR, more than 42 Hall of Fame position players.

—Bonds had a career line of .393/.967/1.054 on 3-0 counts.

—Bonds was once intentionally walked with the bases loaded.

—Bonds was intentionally walked with the bases empty 41 times.

—In the 2002 postseason, Bonds hit .356/.581/.978 with eight home runs in 17 games.

—Between 2002 and 2004, Bonds hit 136 home runs and struck out 146 times.

—If you turned every home run Bonds ever hit into an out, his career on base percentage would be .384, the same as Alex Rodriguez's.

—Between 1990 and 2004, Bonds was never lower than third in OPS, and he was third only three times.

—Bonds stole 340 bases through age 30; Derek Jeter has stolen 355 in his career.

—Bonds reached base just 330 fewer times than all-time leader Pete Rose, in 3,284 fewer plate appearances.

—Bonds opened the 2004 season with a stretch in which he reached base 45 times in 64 plate appearances, with nine home runs and four strikeouts.

—Bonds's slugging percentage in 2001 was .863. If that were his OPS, it would have ranked 27th in the National League, just behind teammate and defending MVP Jeff Kent's .877 mark.

—From 2002 to 2007, the only seasons for which data is available, Bonds made contact with 90.5 percent of strikes he swung at, varying from a seasonal low of 89.2 percent to a high of 93.7 percent.

—Bonds made 85 fewer outs than Ken Griffey Jr. did in 1,302 more plate appearances.

—Bonds had four sacrifice hits in his career. (Ted Williams had five; Hank Aaron had 21.)

—Through age 26, Bonds had 10.8 defensive WAR, more than any other outfielder in major league history other than Andruw Jones through that age.

—Bonds hit .333/.488/.576 against Pedro Martínez in 43 plate appearances; only Luis Gonzalez (of all people) hit him better.

—Bonds hit Randy Johnson for a 1.003 OPS in 62 plate appearances; no other left-handed hitter with 50 PAs did better than .888, and left-handers overall hit .199/.278/.294.

—After the San Francisco Giants moved to what is now known as AT&T Park, Bonds slugged .753 there in 1996 plate appearances, which is what Mark McGwire did in 1998, the year he hit 70 home runs.

—From 2001 to 2004, Bonds's on base percentage was .559; that would have been the 11th-highest slugging average in the National League during this period.

—Bonds's career rWAR of 162.4 is higher than those of Pete Rose and Nolan Ryan combined.

—Bonds took the extra base—advancing more than one base on a single, or more than two on a double—43 percent of the time, more often than Ichiro Suzuki.

—In his career, after going to a 3-0 count Bonds hit 30 home runs and struck out 25 times.

—In his 16 recorded bunt attempts, Bonds laid down two for sacrifices and picked up eight hits on the others, for a .571 batting average.

—Bonds hit 227 career home runs just off left-handers—more than 91 Hall of Fame position players hit in total.

—If Bonds were to return to the major leagues tomorrow, he would have to make 1,412 straight outs to drop his on base percentage below .400.

The man was simply unreal. We will never see this level of dominance again.

 

[nomnom]

I miss the frequency of McCovey Cove homeruns

 

[RyGuy45]

Agreed. Once Barry Bonds said that he didn't take steroids and was just taking supplements that his PAID trainer was giving him (who he trusts).....it should've ended right there. But all good, he had to go to trial...and guess what...he won...so let's move on. He's LEGIT GREATNESS ...no more asterisk!

Fact: We all know Bonds is better than any player the past 50yrs
Fact: He was falsely shamed for taking Steroids, when courts show he did NOT

No need anymore to talk pre or post Roids.....the god didn't use. I believe in the justice system!

This is why I will always be entertained by NT

Barry Bonds was my favorite player growing up and already one of the greatest players ever (although a postseason choke) when he decided to make himself into a walking chemistry experiment and prove to the world that talent + training + proper drug intake = superhuman. Bonds was a drug addict who essentially turned the back half of his career, when all other players are falling off, into his batting prime.....all the while pretending that it was all natural, juiced balls, and dumb luck. He deserves props for figuring out the right way to do it - those years coming up to bat were unlike anything we will ever see again.

Age 21-34 - 6,621 AB, 411 HR, .290 BA, .411 OBP, .556 SLG
Age 34-43 - 3,226 AB, 351 HR, .316 BA, .505 OBP, .712 SLG

 

[johnnyredstorm]

2001-2004
12.5 WAR, 12.7 WAR, 10.2 WAR, 11.9 WAR :x

 

[DeadsetAce]

2001-2004
12.5 WAR, 12.7 WAR, 10.2 WAR, 11.9 WAR :x

 

[rillo561]

Wonder how much money was spent in this. Last I hear it was more than the 9/11 commission.

 

[dmxfury]

Wonder how much money was spent in this. Last I hear it was more than the 9/11 commission.

:x

Wouldn't surprise me, the govt does so little right

 

[johnnyredstorm]

what's really scary is Mike Trout could have a better career than non-Balco Bonds. What Trout's done so far, before he's turned 24 is scary. 10.3, 10.5, 8.0, 5.7 through 92 games.

 

[DeadsetAce]

Wonder how much money was spent in this. Last I hear it was more than the 9/11 commission.

thought it was $6M in tax payer money. thought i read that at least

 

[EddieDoyers]

I still like Hank Aaron more than Bonds
But Bonds was the most dominant player in the league for a decade, with or without supplements

 

[lokid300s]

This is why I will always be entertained by NT

Barry Bonds was my favorite player growing up and already one of the greatest players ever (although a postseason choke) when he decided to make himself into a walking chemistry experiment and prove to the world that talent + training + proper drug intake = superhuman. Bonds was a drug addict who essentially turned the back half of his career, when all other players are falling off, into his batting prime.....all the while pretending that it was all natural, juiced balls, and dumb luck. He deserves props for figuring out the right way to do it - those years coming up to bat were unlike anything we will ever see again.

Age 21-34 - 6,621 AB, 411 HR, .290 BA, .411 OBP, .556 SLG
Age 34-43 - 3,226 AB, 351 HR, .316 BA, .505 OBP, .712 SLG

Drug Addict?  He took supplements. He listened to what his trainer told him to take. c'mon bro...when you go out to eat, do you know what the chef puts in your food? Just eat the damn food! LOL

 

[RyGuy45]

Drug Addict? He took supplements. He listened to what his trainer told him to take. c'mon bro...when you go out to eat, do you know what the chef puts in your food? Just eat the damn food! LOL

Supplements. Right.....

Barry Bonds began using steroids after the 1998 baseball season and came to rely on a wide variety of performance-enhancing drugs over the next several years, according to a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters.

Reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams based their narrative "on more than a thousand pages of documents and interviews with more than 200 people, many of whom we spoke to repeatedly." Bonds decided to use performance-enhancing substances after watching McGwire -- whom the excerpt says he suspected was "a juicer" -- gain national acclaim for eclipsing Roger Maris' storied single-season record.

The book describes the way Bonds knowingly and meticulously used steroids -- including "the clear" and "the cream" provided by BALCO -- and even took control of his drug regimen when he disagreed with weight trainer Greg Anderson.

The book also says Bonds learned how to inject himself and describes one conversation with Anderson in which Bonds says of starting another drug cycle, "I'll do it myself."

Bonds did his homework before diving into the murky world of performance-enhancing drugs. He obtained medical advice from third parties before he began to use steroids and was told he shouldn't take them. Bonds, encouraged by Anderson, ignored the advice.

Anderson -- who later pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids and money laundering and served three months in prison -- originally decided which drugs Bonds would use.

Bonds began using Winstrol after the 1998 season with Anderson supplying the steroids and syringes and usually injecting Bonds in the buttocks.

Winstrol "eliminated the pain and fatigue of training," allowing Bonds to relentlessly lift weights at World Gym in Burlingame in the months before the 1999 season.

Bonds added 15 pounds of solid muscle that off-season, going from 210 pounds to 225.

When Bonds arrived at spring training in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 1999, those around the Giants began calling him "the Incredible Hulk."

As Bonds learned in 1999, Winstrol was not a magic potion. He sustained a torn triceps tendon in his left arm in April, requiring surgery and forcing him to miss seven weeks. Bonds and Anderson blamed steroids for the elbow injury "because they had made his arm muscles so large that the elbow tendon could not support them."

Bonds also complained of pain in his knee and back, leading Anderson to search for other drugs in 2000. Soon thereafter, Anderson put Bonds on Deca-Durabolin and later added human growth hormone (HGH). Bonds favored HGH, according to the bookt, because it allowed him to stay muscle-bound and maintain his thirst to train while also feeling flexible. It also seemed to improve his eyesight.

But he wanted more, and the path unfolded before him after the 2000 season, when Anderson arranged for Bonds to meet Victor Conte, the owner of BALCO.

Conte introduced Bonds to "the clear" and "the cream," the two then-undetectable designer steroids at the heart of the doping scandal that would also send Conte to prison; he served a four-month sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids and money laundering.

Doping calendars kept by Anderson also showed Bonds used testosterone; insulin, which had a significant anabolic effect when used with HGH; "Mexican beans," fast-acting steroids thought to quickly clear the user's system; trenbolone, a steroid "created to improve the muscle quality of beef cattle"; and Clomid, a female fertility drug that Conte believed helped his clients "recover their natural ability to produce testosterone."

Bonds' interest in this expanding menu of performance-enhancing substances continued in 2002, according to the doping calendars kept by Anderson and cited in the excerpt. Bonds was injected with HGH every other day during a three-week cycle, the excerpt says, and he used "the clear" and "the cream" between injections of HGH.

Conte's involvement may have increased Bonds' choices and boosted his power, but it backfired when federal officials raided BALCO's offices in Burlingame on Sept. 3, 2003. Conte cooperated with federal agents by implicating 27 elite athletes, including Bonds, as having received performance-enhancing drugs.

Conte said Bonds used the substances "on a regular basis," the excerpt states. Conte later denied naming Bonds to the government, but in their search for evidence at BALCO federal officials found file folders detailing the players' drug use, including a folder for Bonds.

I will wait here for your reply in your Bonds jersey that you just aren't buying it.

 

[dmxfury]

I think your metaphor would make more sense if you compared BB and his supplements to Bobby Flay at a restaurant. And he sure as hell knows what's in the food and is meticulous about it. Same as Bonds, he was a perfectionist about his training and body


- Mod

 

[johnnyredstorm]

I think your metaphor would make more sense if you compared BB and his supplements to Bobby Flay at a restaurant. And he sure as hell knows what's in the food and is meticulous about it. Same as Bonds, he was a perfectionist about his training and body


- Mod

Stop making sense.

 

[stillin729]

what's really scary is Mike Trout could have a better career than non-Balco Bonds. What Trout's done so far, before he's turned 24 is scary. 10.3, 10.5, 8.0, 5.7 through 92 games.

Eagles fan

 

[lokid300s]

Supplements. Right.....
I will wait here for your reply in your Bonds jersey that you just aren't buying it.

wow, that book looks so blatant that he took steroids that he should be guilty 

 

I wonder what other books can make biased accounts on athletes and their lives.

 

[red80]

The man was simply unreal. We will never see this level of dominance again.

This!!! One day I'll tell my future son the story of Barry bonds' dominance, and his story will become a thing of folklore. We'll never see someone as dominant as Barry again.

 

[lokid300s]

I think your metaphor would make more sense if you compared BB and his supplements to Bobby Flay at a restaurant. And he sure as hell knows what's in the food and is meticulous about it. Same as Bonds, he was a perfectionist about his training and body


- Mod

in that scenario, the chef is to blame since BB was paying him to make the food.  If I tell you I wanna kill myself and drink gasoline, would you serve it to me? #justicesystem

 

[The_Isomotion31]

For the life of me still don't understand why some friends who are Giants fans jeer me when I rock my Barry Lamar Bonds jersey....Probably just envy.

 

[dmxfury]

Your comparisons are confusing

And I still don't know if you understand what this was all about

 

[johnnyredstorm]

The man was simply unreal. We will never see this level of dominance again.

This!!! One day I'll tell my future son the story of Barry bonds' dominance, and his story will become a thing of folklore. We'll never see someone as dominant as Barry again.

It's crazy because of how dominant Trout Harper and Stanton can be, they're still far away from balco bonds. Glad I witnessed that run.

 

[dman14]

just looking at his stats, stupid ridic :x

 

[RyGuy45]

I wonder what other books can make biased accounts on athletes and their lives.

Earlier I maybe was in the mood but I no longer feel like feeding the NT trolls.