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
