What is your take on Barry Bonds?
613516
May be the best baseball player ever.  No telling how many homeruns he would have if he didn't spend all those years playing in Candlestick Park
599670
I agree with you. If I were Barry, I would want to kick someone where the sun don't shine every game. It still hasn't been proved that he used steroids and yet, he is booed, intentionally walked, and booed some more. He is such a great player and deserves much more than what he is getting. If I were Barry, I would definatly retire after this season. It sucks to be him right now. Poor man...But at least he passed Babe's record and I hope he passes Hank's record. I hate seeing him get walked.
546872
Bonds is one of the greats - no question about it, when it comes to on the filed performance ONLY, which is how I jugde baseball greatness.\n\nI agree that his hand-eye coordination, natural speed and discipline at the plate are all skills that came without steroids.\n\nHe is not, in my mind, a great HR hitter however, but merely a 500 HR hitter, as what he took helped him make a strong power serge at the end of his career.\n\nIn short, he is hall of famer, but top 20, not 1.\n\nHelper Guy
143023
Yes, Barry Bonds should retire. Basseball is a team sport. It seems that Bonds is only intrested in breaking the homerun record and not the welfare of his team. He is over rated.
238458
I believe Barry...is a lying cheat.\n\n"I've read what was reported," Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris, told The Associated Press. "Barry is looking forward to playing this year and the improved health of his knee and being as productive as he's ever been."\nSounds like someone avoiding the question.\n\nQuote from the book:\nHe claimed in testimony that he didn't know what Anderson was giving him. "At the end of [the] 2002, 2003 season, when I was going through [a bad period], my dad died of cancer ... I was fatigued, just needed recovery you know, and this guy says, 'Try this cream, try this cream,'" he said. "And Greg came to the ballpark and said, you know, 'This will help you recover.' And he rubbed some cream on my arm ... gave me some flaxseed oil, man. It's like, 'Whatever, dude.'" \nLater, Bonds said: "You know me, I'm 39 years old. I'm dealing with pain. All I want is the pain relief, you know? ... I never asked Greg," according to the excerpt. "When he said it was flaxseed oil, I just said, 'Whatever.' It was in the ballpark ... in front of everybody. I mean, all the reporters, my teammates. I mean, they all saw it. I didn't hide it ... . You know, trainers come up to me and say, 'Hey, Barry, try this.'"\n\nThat sounds like a health conscious person to me...\nI mean I put stuff into my body all the time not knowing what it is...Stop kidding yourself Barry.
559847
Haha Barry bonds is a chicken. Wouldnt even fight Springer last night. Then again, he would get his *** kicked as his body is old and crippled enough.\n\nIf you were on his team and he charged the mound, would you back him up? Didnt think so. Doubt his teammates would either. The sooner he retires, the better for the game.
231974
Possibly the Greatest Baseball player of ALL-TIME!!!!!!!\n\nSteroids or non......... Greatest!!!! He's faced alot tuffer pitching then Babe Tooth!!!!!\n\nPeople just love to hate Great People like Barry!!!!
275078
I guess you can look at it as he found a loophole.  We should blame MLB just as much as Bonds.  But, it still doesn't change the fact that what he did was wrong.  I personally think he is a cheater and should be banned from baseball and Hall of Fame.
77160
Pay no attention to the idiots that say no.  Barry Bonds is the best player ever.  Not only can he hit homeruns on command but he solid defensivly and, by the way, the only 600/600 man.  There will never be another Barry Bonds in our lifetime.  100 years from now people will finally recognize a true legend.
706704
I would not want Bonds on my team due to the steroid questions that surround him.\n\nI would not want Bonds on my team due to his attitude.\n\nI would not want Bonds on my team due to his age.\n\nI would not want Bonds on my team due to his recent performances.\n\nI would not want Bonds on my team due to his salary demands.\n\n\n*Kurt C - Bonds did cheat, he basically has admitted that the substances he thought were harmless, were probably the 'cream' and 'clear' i.e. steroids. \nThe question is whether he knowingly used them, which he says he would never do. And honestly for signing Bonds, it makes no difference, it is a distraction the team can do without.*
548939
seriously, everyone needs to step off Barry. He's one of the greatest players of all time, steroids or not. Steroids are cheating? I'm not saying i like them or would ever use them, but when he did them it was part of the game. Experts and other players estimate over 1/2 of all big leaguers were using steroids in the late 90s/early 00s. I mean, ho9lding in football is illegal, but most o linemen hold anyway. And they sure as he11 try not to get caught. \n\nConcluision: i'm glad streoids are over in baseball, i'm glad we have had such an amazing player as Barry to watch break the big records IN OUR LIFETIME, and I'm glad he hates the media, they made him out to look like what many people still see him as, an a$$hole cheater who deserves to be stricken from the record books. I think cheering at someone getting hit is wrong. Booing A-rod when he comes back to Seattle is one thing, cheering Bonds for getting hit intentionally is another. People need to get over what Bonds and everyone else did and start to be good baseball fans.
492371
Barry Bonds would not still be playing if he had not taken performance enhancers.  Yes, he is a great home run hitter, but no one, NO ONE, has ever doubled their home run-to-at-bat ratio at the age of 39 or 40.  Why?\n\nAdvancing age decreases home run output for everyone.  UNLESS you are elongating your career with performance enhancers.  In short, Barry Bonds is cheating every single player who ever played straight.\n\nFrom 2000-2005, Barry Bonds should have half the home runs he hit nullified.  These are the dates that he is documented as having been taking performance enhancing drugs.  These are the dates his home run-to-at-bat ratio doubled.\n\nBaseball needs to take action on this for the integrity of the game, and for the honor of every Major League player who did not enhance their skills with some kind of substance.  The fans deserve to know that their favorite players can be looked up to for the skills they were born with.  Not for trying to beat the system, and us, for the sake of more money.\n\nBarry Bonds is a great player, and he is also a selfish, delusional, misguided sociopath who thinks the rules don't apply to him.  That is a great message to send to our kids.\n\nHis punishment will send a message that sportsmanship is not dead.  Even though there is trash talking, fights, and huge egos, a line has to be drawn at performance enhancing substances.  You and I can't get away with it, so why should our athletes.
638951
Barry Lamar Bonds, ya know the one who had a cork in his bat\nhe plays for San Fransisco giants\nBats Left, Throws Left \nHeight 6' 1", Weight 228 lb.\nHe has only tied record-------so far
338359
Bonds is a liar, racist, crook and a wife beater. He has absolutely no integrity with intelligent people of character, and no I don't think he will be, nor should be in the HOF. \n\nTo all the bonds supporters, which why you would support him is beyond me: Take a look at his body and stats prior to 1990. He had less than 85 homers and he was well under 200 pounds. Now all of a sudden at the age of 42 he has almost achieved the all time HR record and put on more muscle as he's gotten older? Can you say abnormal pattern to reality and reverse terms then the rest of us?\n\nAre we to believe that he is just blessed with again gracefully and just happens to be superman as he ages? Does he happen to have a tree in his backyard that produces anti-aging and reverse again fruit? Think again!\n\nIt's clearly unnatural and against nature the process and pattern by which he's gone, so clearly he's been juicing. Not to mention yet another wonderful role model for the black community, who is already overraught with wonderful thugs like Ray Lewis that set such a wonderful example.\n\nNo wonder today's youth and minority population is primarily heading in the wrong direction, when they turn on their Tv's and see these types of things, who is essence of action are saying: "Do whatever you want, lie, cheat and steal if you have to in order to win, and if anyone questions you for it, just play the race card".\n\nBonds and people like you that support him are a damn disgrace to the sport, the true classy legends that built it and to the country. Shame on you if you have any.
1088672
Well, I am not "crazy" about him because I am a male and a Red Sox fan to boot. However, he is a great shortstop, a dedicated player, and epitomizes the enthusiasm and energy one would like to see in all athletes!!\n\nI hope you agree.
584436
I THINK HE DESERVED,BECAUSE HE IS VERY TALENTED PLAYER,I KNOW THAT JUST FOR THE FACT THAT HE USE STEROIDS,THE PEOPLE NOT GOING TO RECOGNIZED HIM LIKE THEY DID WITH RUTH.BUT HOW MANY PLAYERS USE STEROIDS AND THEY{THE PLAYERS THAT USED THEM,BONDS IS NOT THE ONLY ONE}NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BREAK A RECORD LIKE BONDS.
597980
Who is Barry Bonz?\n\nIn all seriousness, there is no proof that Bonds used steroids. Did he use them? Probably. Did he use them at a time when they were banned by major league baseball? Probably not. If he explicitly took something that was against the rules of the game at the time, then he should be punished. If not, he was merely playing the game as it was allowed to be played. \n\nOn a sidenote, don't forget that Babe Ruth doesn't hold the record, Hank Aaron does. Babe Ruth is now tied for second all time with Bonds, and Bonds has a long way to go to get to Aaron's record. He'll retire before he gets there.