Official Barry Bonds Countdown Thread

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Well, Sports Illustrated doesn't have such a big problem with him.

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Peter King of Sports Illustrated all but dismissed Merriman's test violation and suspension in his column explaining why he voted for Merriman to the All-Pro team, writing, "Merriman? In football, when we deliberate for the Hall of Fame, we do not take off-field stuff into account. And Merriman was good enough in 12 games to be, in my mind, one of football's two best outside linebackers."

Merriman actually failed a steroid test and actually broke a rule, but SI writers openly admit they don't take that into account when bestowing awards upon him.

Bonds has never failed a steroid test, and has not violated the steroid policy, but yet SI quickly rushes to label his achievements "tainted" and assign their own version of an asterisk.

But of course, they are doing it to help save the children.

And people will argue until they are blue in the face that they don't see any hypocrisy in any of it.