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Originally posted by Cowperson@Oct 5 2004, 05:41 PM
They're testing people and no one is hitting more than 50 homers this year?
What a coincidence.
I'm sure Barry Bonds is quite ready to be tested . . . . now.
Cowperson
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If you are suggesting that Bonds ability to hit a homer has somehow declined, I'd say you are mostly wrong. Although he was not able to hit at the same impossible pace he set in 2001, he would have hit 58 homers had he had the same amount of ABs. In fact if he got dealt as many ABs as Ichiro, he would have hit 84 at his this year's HR/AB rate.
Sheffield is a punk though. I don't even really know what he was saying in that article. His admission of guilt for the cream is kind of weird, and was probably done to deflect some attention from the real issues. And he seems pretty p*ssed that bonds stole his chef! He is sounding like Kobe Bryant here a bit. Get in some trouble and deflect the attention to someone else. Not a very good character attribute, if you ask me.