My Monthly Obligatory Sports Post

Good for Barry Bonds. I've never liked the guy as a player, but there's one important thing to note here. Baseball isn't football. Brute strength is not an automatic guarantee of success. It may give you a few more homers a year, but home-run hitting is about bat speed and reading pitchers. It's not like Barry Bonds hits 302-foot shots that barely clear the wall thanks to his new-found pumped-up-itude. He hits towering shots and he did so before he bulked up. I have no doubt he used steroids and that's a violation of current rules. But it doesn't mean he's not a great athlete.

(Actually, the biggest factor in increased hone run output in the past two decades, I would argue, is the expansion to 30 teams and the dilution of the talent pool, particularly pitchers who shouldn't be in the major leagues pitching to the likes of Barry Bonds.)