Will Bonds Boycott Hall of Fame Induction?
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by Niteowl049
Baseball Notebook
Balco Bonds Threatens to Boycott HOF Induction
Barry "Balco" Bonds is fuming about his 756th home run ball being marked with an asterisk and sent to the Hall of Fame and is now saying he may not even show up for his induction which would not upset those fans who think he was using steroids to pass Hank Aaron.
Marc Ecko, the present owner of the 756th home run ball conducted a vote to see what the fans wanted to do the baseball and they voted to stamp an asterisk onto the ball and send it to the Hall of Fame. So far the ball has not been stamped and sent to the Hall of Fame that I know of but if and when it is fans visiting the Hall of Fame will be reminded when they view it that Balco Bonds did not hit all those home runs from 2000 to the present on his own but with a chemical assist from BALCO laboratory which created better living through chemistry for Balco Bonds.
Personally, I don't care if he shows up or not and hope he doesn't even get admitted to the Hall of Fame. True, there may not be the smoking gun that proves he used steroids but the circumstancial evidence is overwhelming like the fact that his home run numbers were going down from 1996 to 1999 then suddenly from out of nowhere he started hitting home runs at a dizzying pace. He also bulked up from the skinny player he was with the Pirates into a gargantuan of a man who saw his shoe size go from 10 1/2 to 13 not to mention his cap size also increasing.
From 1996 to 1999, he hit in order 42-40-37 and 34 home runs for a total of 153 home runs. Then from 2000-2004 he hit in order 49-73-46-45 and 45 home runs for a total of 258 home runs. From 1996 to 1999 he averaged 38.25 home runs a season. However suddenly from 2000-2004 he averaged 51.6 home runs a season. I have seen online somewhere that the home runs of Balco started traveling further after he apparently found his fountain of youth in steroids.
In the first 14 years of his career the 46 he hit in 1993 was his personal high but at the age of 36 he becomes Superman and passes that personal high for 3 straight years. Granted he has never tested positive for steroids but why is his trainer Greg Anderson rotting in prison so he can avoid implicating Bonds in the BALCO steroids scandal if he is not protecting Bonds knowing he had the power to keep Bonds from even having the opportunity to hit his 756th home run. If Anderson talks Bonds would almost certainly go to prison for perjury before a grand jury because he has the doping calendars that Bonds reportedly used so he would take his steroids doses at the proper time.
Still think that Bonds should have been called to Washington along with Rafael " I Have Never Used Steroids Period" Palmeiro, Mark " I Don't Want To Talk About The Past" McGwire and Sammy "I Forgot How To Speak English" Sosa just to see what he would have said under oath.
Whether the Mitchell investigation mentions Balco on their list of steroids users remains to be seen
