Doping, Bolt, Bonds, and My Hypocrisy

There's no doubt that BAROID BONDS was a first ballot Hall of Famer, before he ever took a single dose of dope.

There's also no doubt that BAROID BONDS was one of the biggest pieces of crap that ever wore a sporting uniform. His arrogance is legendary. When he missed most of the season several years back, he refused to update the team about his rehabilitation, telling management that if they wanted to know how he was doing, they should go to his website.
Then again, when a player shows up to spring training bulked up 50 pounds, and team doctors, management and the media don't question it, well, that tells you that most people just don't give a crap.
BAROID was also an in Pittsburgh, long before he went to the Giants.

Lousy.

What about the athletes who compete against the dopers, how do you think they feel?

"Pure power" was a euphemism for juicing.

Your argument is sound; your opinion and mine diverge about who was superior. The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract lists Williams as the #1 all-time left fielder, followed by Stan Musial at #2, and Bonds at #3. (And at publication time of the edition I own, only stats through the 2000 season applied to Bill James' rankings.) But you can't compare the two eras, as I said.
I don't think it'd serve me or Flotrack or its other users to commandeer the site for arguments about baseball, so I encourage you to hop over to one of my blogs and continue this tangent.

Barry Bonds was one of the best "pure hitters" of his era, and even amazingly kept his average up while pumping out long balls at an insane pace. That being said, what he did was not "pure" he enhanced his skills through the use PED's. An amazing ballplayer, but he wont be remembered for how good he was, he will be remembered for how much better and stronger those same PED's made him...

That being said, to compare him to Ted Williams is out of control. Williams is one of the top 3 hitters of ALL TIME. The man missed all of 1942, 43, and 44 because he was off fighting for the country in WWII.
Bonds had over 2,000 more AB's than Williams. Give Williams those 3 war years back... he ends up with around 3200 hits and over 600 home runs, and he was not noted as a "pure power" hitter.
Bonds could have been one of the greatest, but hes not. Williams IS one of the greatest and is one of the few players who truly were ahead of their time.