[fantom1979]

Originally Posted by bagsangels

heres what i have to say about bonds, ok maybe, just maybe, he might have taken steriods, but if u look at him hes still a big guy, now they also believed that giambi took steriods and look at him now, hes way smaller then last year. he says he lost weight. right....... but anyway, even if bonds did which i think he didnt, it still takes an incredible eye for the ball and natural talent to hit a baseball, and the way he does it is incredible, if he doesnt get a home run he gets a double or sometimes triple, the guy usually ends up with more doubles then singles, and his walks are just crazy, i mean to have as many as he has just shows what an incredible hitter he is, lets face it the guy got walked intentionally with bases loaded, now thats saying something. so lets just give bonds his credit and instead of fussing about him, lets enjoy what we have left to see from him.

Without taking a stance on whether or not he took steriods, all of his stats would be null and void if he is found guilty of taking them. 55 of his 101 walks this year are IBB. Then you have to subtract all of the unintentional intentional Walks he gets. Once you subtract all of these, how good of an eye for the strike zone does Bonds have? Just subtracting the IBB his OBP is .457 . Still good, but more human. If it is somehow proven that he has been totally clean, then he is just simply amazing.