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Even if he started using steroids in 2000 or whenever (and again, there is as yet no proof of that), he was a mortal lock for the Hall of Fame already based on his career to that point. There's not a single other player -- McGwire included -- about whom you can say that.

The only way he was getting into the HOF anyway was if he bought a ticket.

No, I'm just satisfied none of you has any proof right now.

I'd need a little bit more. Like, is the knife bloody? Does the blood belong to the victim? Any other prints on the knife? Any other blood at the scene? Any witnesses who saw the guy stab the victim? And so on. Obviously the guy's a suspect and you might have enough to charge him. But what you described isn't enough to convict, without more. Sorry, I'm a lawyer.

I'm sorry, I missed the article with the proof he used them. Link please.

He was 22 years old in that picture, for god's sake.

And since this is becoming another referendum on Bonds, just remember that this is a guy who won three MVPs when he was rail-thin. These other jokers (Caminiti, Giambi, Dykstra, et. al.) didn't become dominant players until they went on the juice, with the exception of Mark McGwire. And then their bodies -- McGwire's included -- completely broke down fairly quickly. Meanwhile Bonds chugs along at age 40 with nothing more than a sore back here and tired legs there. There are a lot of differences between Bonds and the people whom we KNOW took the juice.

I second that.

Are you telling me you don't think Pete Rose bet on the Reds?

By the way, folks, if you type "bullsh*t" you still get stevestojan. See? stevestojan.

Outstanding. Got it for $11.98. Thanks!

Your avatar cracks me the hell up, nodnarb!

That last one just reminded me of Ali Haji-Sheikh.

The Final Countdown, with Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. A modern aircraft carrier sails through some weird time-space barrier and ends up in the Pacific on December 6, 1941. Moral issue: launch a pre-emptive attack against the oncoming Japanese, or allow history to take its course? I'm not sure if it's even on DVD and I haven't seen it in over 20 years.

Oops. Sorry, detox.

Come on, nobody's mentioned Heartbreak Ridge! That was a war movie... sort of.

The Midget's probably bidding on it himself.

My favorite part of that whole game was seeing people who had already exited to the parking lot trying to get back into the stadium. After they were refused readmittance, somebody decided to scale the wire fence. Suddenly it was monkey see, monkey do, and everyone was climbing the fence. Eventually I think stadium security relented and opened the gates, fearing a lawsuit if some drunk fugger broke his neck. I watched that game at Coach's in Macedon with my dad since it was blacked out at home. After Reich threw the interception to begin the second half, the bar emptied almost completely. So my dad and I moved up to the front row by the big screen and got the best seats in the house along with a few other faithful. When the tide started turning, people who had cellphones (this was 1993, remember) started calling everyone they knew and exhorting them to get their asses back to the bar. Some people used the payphones for the same purpose. By the beginning of the fourth quarter the place was jampacked again. Damnedest thing I ever saw. I never hugged so many total strangers in my whole life.

Lance Rentzel got some exposure back in the day.

Who's Kelly Stapler and is she hot? Link please.

Good point. But I wonder what the average ADMITTED athlete's SAT score is. You wonder if athletes who just barely squeak past the minimum standards harbor some justifiable doubts about their ability to handle a Stanford workload, and say thanks but no thanks, I'm going to Oregon State. Therefore. the average SAT score of the athletes who actually matriculate at Stanford probably doesn't reflect the Admission Office's policy as accurately as would the average SAT of all the athletes who are admitted.

Then there's the category of players whose real name AND nickname always had to be uttered together, like: Sam "Bam" Cunningham Al "Bubba" Baker "Friggin" Lonnie Johnson

Another Jet from a later era: Nuu Faola.

So either things have changed since this article was written, or the reporter got his facts wrong?

Surprised no one's yet brought up Antwaan Randle El.