Comments on: A Schilling for your thoughts http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2007/05/10/a-schilling-for-your-thoughts/ Bill Burt's blog on sports Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:27:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Bill http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2007/05/10/a-schilling-for-your-thoughts/#comment-911 Bill Sat, 12 May 2007 14:02:43 +0000 http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2007/05/10/a-schilling-for-your-thoughts/#comment-911 Bill, you miss the point on Curt's comments. People were outraged over the unsubstantiated statements he made about Bonds' wife and financial position, not the steroid usage. It has been pretty universally accepted that he used illegal performance-enhancers. To the comment made above, explain to me how alcohol and "greenies" can help build muscle and speed up recovery time from injuries. If that's the case I guess Ken Caminitti should have been pounding Budweisers instead of shooting up steroids-least he'd be alive today. Bill, you miss the point on Curt’s comments. People were outraged over the unsubstantiated statements he made about Bonds’ wife and financial position, not the steroid usage. It has been pretty universally accepted that he used illegal performance-enhancers.

To the comment made above, explain to me how alcohol and “greenies” can help build muscle and speed up recovery time from injuries. If that’s the case I guess Ken Caminitti should have been pounding Budweisers instead of shooting up steroids-least he’d be alive today.

]]> By: Greg Greenwell http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2007/05/10/a-schilling-for-your-thoughts/#comment-910 Greg Greenwell Thu, 10 May 2007 16:06:14 +0000 http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2007/05/10/a-schilling-for-your-thoughts/#comment-910 While it is nice that sports writers have already decided that Hank Aaron is a perfect god and worthy of his home run record, it seems to me that his era (and mine) was in the rampant "greenies" rage times in baseball. So now that the sports writers have "decided" that Barry Bonds isn't worthy of any records because he may have taken drugs to enhance his proformance in the era of "muscles for millions" of dollars. We should step back before we claim he isn't worthy or Hank or Babe's fame. Bonds may not be liked for his arrogance and his presence but his accomplishments aren't any more tainted then the people before and after him. Alcohol was a mainstay for Babe's era. Hank's era had greenies, Barry's era has steroids. But they all could swing a Bat against the best of their times. No drug can do that. Complain all you want but the facts are all three guys deserve recognition for their accomplishments. I am not a Barry fan but at least I don't bash him for what his whole "era" in baseball became. While it is nice that sports writers have already decided that Hank Aaron is a perfect god and worthy of his home run record, it seems to me that his era (and mine) was in the rampant “greenies” rage times in baseball. So now that the sports writers have “decided” that Barry Bonds isn’t worthy of any records because he may have taken drugs to enhance his proformance in the era of “muscles for millions” of dollars. We should step back before we claim he isn’t worthy or Hank or Babe’s fame. Bonds may not be liked for his arrogance and his presence but his accomplishments aren’t any more tainted then the people before and after him. Alcohol was a mainstay for Babe’s era. Hank’s era had greenies, Barry’s era has steroids. But they all could swing a Bat against the best of their times. No drug can do that. Complain all you want but the facts are all three guys deserve recognition for their accomplishments. I am not a Barry fan but at least I don’t bash him for what his whole “era” in baseball became.

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