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Blog Entry: This is old but I thought I'd share...It's even more interesting since the Mitchell Report has come out, the way players are being treated differently than the way Bonds was treated after accusations came out against him. Originally written by me on August 16th.  How is it possible that Bud Selig is going to issue NO PUNISHMENT towards Jason Giambi who ADMITTED using steroids and other performance enhancing drugs?! Because Giambi cooperated and made charitable donations, he gets to go on, play baseball free of punishment and ridicule. But Barry Bonds, who NEVER TESTED POSITIVE for steroids, is getting treated like ??? by Selig. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? I'm not saying that Bonds didn't use something to gain an advantage, but EVERYONE in the game was using something. The fact that 82 pitchers have been caught using steroids just proves that the playing field was level during the time that bonds was hitting all of his homeruns. Pitchers were juicing, batters were juicing, get over it, it was the state of the game back then and major league baseball (Bud Selig included) turned a blind eye to it back then. They needed to bring fans back to baseball after the strike/lock out and the homerun chase did that. Change the game now, but don't single out one player, Bonds, and treat him differently than a player like Jason Giambi who tested positive and openly admitted to using steroids, cheating at the game. Basically this article that just came out about Giambi getting no punishment is saying that if Bonds just admits to using steroids, and donates a couple hundred thousand dollars to a charity then Bud Selig will welcome Bonds as the new homerun king, punishment free. Bull ???in ???. You know he'll be the head cheerleader for trying to put an asterisk next to Bonds' name in the record books. But forget the fact that Giambi won a league MVP award. You think Selig will lobby for an asterisk next to that award in the record books? Nope. Giambi gets no punishment. Even though he has tested positive and admitted to using steroids while Bonds has not. Fuckin hypocritical if you ask me. This is the article talking about how Giambi will receive no punishment: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2977294