Here is an interesting article on Greg Anderson, the former personal trainer of Barry Bonds.
The beginning of the article discusses one person who spent some time as Anderson's cellmate in prison. His crime spree, resulting from junk food addiction, was quite a strange one. Describing his arrest, this guy commented, "The fucking pie filling went everywhere."
Oh, and the elk semen thing is just gross.
I am 99 percent sure this is the only blog I will ever see the term "elk semen" on...
ReplyDeleteActually, I think a lot of blogs that make fun of Barry Bonds will mention it.
ReplyDeleteIf you looked at the article, you'll also see that that was not even remotely the only scary thing in it. (For example, the 'roids were apparently making him lactate at some point.)
Okay, I just read it -- the whole sordid tale, thank you -- and the elk semen bit seems even weirder than it did before. Are there really people left who consider him a legend in a positive sense? Wow!
ReplyDeleteI consider him a Hall of Famer but not a legend. This is based on what he did on the playing field before those substances he was using were illegal in baseball. (Granted, baseball was really stupid for waiting so long to ban that stuff.)
ReplyDeleteBonds had already earned his place on the Hall on the playing field before any of the extracurricular stuff occurred and while it's really nasty, I believe that current evidence suggests that all the steroids use occurred before MLB banned it.
One question is whether he's still using illegal things now. The elk semen is perfectly legal, as far as I can tell. It's just gross.
Of course, there is the whole likelihood of having lied under oath, so I think there's a lot of the story that still needs to be told. But lying under oath has nothing to do with baseball but is more an issue of whether Bonds deserves prison time for that.
The short version of my opinion is that he's justifiably a baseball legend but certainly not a legend (or at least not a positive legend) in life.