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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

Cy, I guess I wasn't very clear with my last post. I think Barry Bonds is the greatest player I've ever seen, I think he's a sure-fire first ballot HOFer, and I can't wait for him to break Aaron's record. Simultaneously, I do believe Bonds used steroids, and I support baseball cleaning itself up.

My point about greenies was that I don't think the use of greenies gave one player an advantage over another player. I just think they enabled players to beat fatigue and possibly be less lethargic in certain games, or take the field in games they ordinarily would have been rested.

Incidentally, I didn't realize that baseball banned amphetamines this year as well until I just read it in SI. It will be interesting to see if there is an across-the-board decline in games played per player this season, as opposed to past seasons.

-Al