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Barry Bonds is going for home run #756 tonight in his quest to surpass Hank Aaron on the all time list. He may not get it tonight but he will get it. He will be the owner of baseball’s most hallowed record. The all-time home run champion.

So, did he cheat? Was he on the juice? His former trainer says he used steroids. His ex-girlfriend says he cheated. Jose Conseco says he was juiced. But, even with all of that, there is, alegedly, no proof that Bonds artificially enhanced his body on the road to immortality.

Well, take a look at this.

That is a picture of Bonds early on in his career. Now, compare that to this one of a modern day Barry.

Big difference, isn’t it? What! that isn’t really proof! Well, I guess you may be right. It is natural for a man’s body to change as he reaches middle age. Come to think of it, If you were to see a picture of me in 1986 next to one from today; you would think it wasn’t even the same guy. And I did it all without pumping iron or steroids.

So, we need more proof. Take a look at this picture.

That, is a picture of former used car salesman and current baseball commissioner, Bud Selig. Obviously, that picture is no proof that Bonds used steroids but, Selig’s recent comments and actions are.

Bud will not be there if Barry breaks the record tonight. This is from a statement that Bud made last week concerning his attendance at Barry’s games during the chase for the record.

“Depending on the weekend, we’ll be up to 11 [games], so I don’t think there’s anybody that can say that I haven’t made a Herculean effort.”

A Heculean effort, hmm. Hercules slew a lion, a hydra, cleaned stables, captured a boar, a bull, and Cerberus. Selig went to some ball games. That must be a real pain in the ass for the commissioner of Baseball.

Selig was in attendance as Bonds tied the record but didn’t even shake his hand.

Statistics are important in baseball. They are important because the fans like to use them to compare players and eras of the game. The all time home run record is the cat daddy of baseball numbers, the Holy grail of statistics.

If Bud Selig knew for a fact that Bond’s accomplished the record cleanly, he would be at every game shouting praise from the roof of the dugout. If he suspected that Bonds might have used, just a little, he would be champing at the bit for a photo op with his arm around the slugger.

Here is what I think. I think that Selig knows more about steroid use in baseball than you or I ever will. After all, he was a team owner during the peak of all of this alleged juicing. As commissioner, I am sure that he is privy to inside information.

The way Selig is conducting himself is all the proof you need. Bud Selig knows in his heart that Barry Bonds cheated. That’s what I think.

In an ironic twist, Clay Hensley, the pitcher who dished up #755 to Bonds, was suspended for steroid use in 2005.

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