Roger Clemens Juiced

By Coast

As everyone knows, Barry Bonds is about to break the all time home run record. This is perhaps the greatest achievement in baseball history thus far and nobody cares. Nobody cares because Bonds allegedly and most likely did use steroids. All the arguments consist of "he got so much bigger over the years, his numbers increased as he got older and his power spiked, his hat size increased, etc."

Yes, he did get bigger and I am not saying that Bonds did not use steroids because it is obvious that he did. Steroids however are not the reason Bonds is about to break the record.

When Bonds got traded to the Giants in 1993 his home run totals were as follows:

93: 46
94: 37
95: 33
96: 42
97: 40
98: 37
99: 34
2000: 49
01: 73
02: 46
03: 45
04: 45
05: 5
06: 26

Except for one phenomenal year in 2001, Bonds consistently hit around 40 homeruns, never much more or less. Without steroids, Bonds would have continued the trend, probably not had injury problems and bad legs from 2005-2007 and it is possible that he could have already broken the record.

Bonds deserves the record and Hank Aaron and Bud Selig better recognize it because Bonds is the best power hitter to have ever played this game and perhaps one of the best all around players ever when he was in his prime.

Now, why doesn't Roger Clemens receive the same type of harassment that Bonds does? Clemens is about to win his 350th game this year and is less than 20 wins away from the record for total wins in the live ball era.

Is it not obvious that Clemens has increased in size over the years? He is huge. Also, how is this guys arm still so strong? Hmm...

Talk about numbers spiking after the age of 40? Clemens had his best career ERA at the age of 43 in 2005. With an ERA well over 4 in 1999 and 2002, Clemens was obviously deteriorating. Then all of the sudden, naturally without any help of performance enhancing substances, Clemens' era dropped over 2 runs per game to 1.87. Bonds went from 49 to 73 home runs and it's steroids. Clemens goes from 4.35 to 1.87 and he is a God. In fact, Clemens' lowest ERA in the previous six seasons was 2.98 and his ERA averaged 3.84 from 1999-2004. That is a 1.97 run drop from his average over six years. Yet noone gives any serious consideration to the fact that Clemens may have cheated. He even tried throwing a broken bat at Mike Piazza...talk about roid rage. Bonds never tried throwing a jagged broken wooden object at a player and then claim he didn't mean to do it. Give me a break. Bonds' home run total increases by 25 and now it is looked at as one huge scam. Clemens is a joke, a cheater, is way overpaid and is the one who should be holding some or most of the scrutiny Bonds receives. Bonds is about to break one of the greatest record in sports, give him some love.

Clemens currently stands at 235 pounds. Bonds is 228 pounds. Barry is the one who is "huge" because of roids...not Roger.

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Keep that ERA over 5 Roger, way to earn your 4.5 million a month.