What do other pros think about Bonds?

[RedBean]

Minnesota Twins All-Star center fielder Torii Hunter says:

"It's so obvious what's going on, He has never failed a drug test and said he never took steroids, but everybody keeps trying to disgrace him. How come nobody even talks about Mark McGwire anymore? Or Palmeiro (who tested positive for steroids in 2005)? Whenever I go home, I hear people say all of the time, 'Baseball just doesn't like black people. Here's the greatest hitter in the game, and they're scrutinizing him like crazy.' It's killing me because you know it's about race."

Dave Stewart, former 20-game winner and World Series MVP says:

"People keep talking about how he's not supposed to keep hitting homers and doing phenomenal things because he's 40-plus, well, Roger Clemens is 40-plus, too, and nobody ever brings his name up. Why not? Is it because one's black and the other is white?"


Seattle Mariners outfielder Matt Lawton, one of 12 major league players who actually tested positive for steroids last season, even has difficulty understanding why those <u>proven guilty have been forgotten</u>. He says:

"If (Bonds) were white, he'd be a poster boy in baseball, not an outcast."


Interesting perspective. Seems like quite a few fellow professional ballplayers feel the persecution of Bonds in the media has little to do with steroids, but more about race and the chase of a record.