So, Barry Bonds was a rampant steroid user ... stop the presses!
It's been 14 years since he made that half-assed throw from the middle of left field that was offline and needed one hop to get to the plate and failed to beat Sid Bream, the slowest man in baseball history. Maybe if Bonds had been using steroids back then, the throw would have a little more oomph on it and the Pirates would have made it to the World Series. We'll never know. I still thought Bream was out anyway.
But I'm not bitter about it or anything.
Not much.
The poor, miserable star-crossed Pittsburgh Pirates. Seems like every guy who leaves Pittsburgh goes on to bigger and better things elsewhere. Bonds is the ultimate example of that trend. He has 710 home runs as of this writing, the most recent of which came last night. I realized today, perhaps for the first time, that he's going to surpass Hank Aaron. He needs 45 more. It may take him until next season, and I think he'll come back next year if he's anywhere close, his weeping "nobody understands me and my pain" schtick on his preposterous ESPN show notwithstanding.
The furor over the Bonds steroid allegations has died down somewhat since Game of Shadows was released. There will be more. He's going to have to answer to the IRS and it looks like he'll be facing some perjury charges. But it feels like the damage is done. When he passes Aaron, I'm not sure anyone is going to know how to celebrate the occasion. It will be anticlimactic, awkward. But he brought that on himself.
Meanwhile, the Pirates have been lost since that night in Atlanta in October 1992. They are miserable yet again. They lost today by a run. Seven losses in a row. They've scored 12 runs in those seven games. Been shut out twice. It's not even May and the season is already over.
Only another three months until the Steelers start training camp!
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