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Career might have beens but for injuries
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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1797026" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>He’s another of those outfielders whose careers cratered right around their 30th birthday. But in KGJ’s case, he was so overwhelmingly good for that first decade of his career, he still gets mentioned as an all time great. </p><p></p><p>The crazy thing about Barry Bonds is that - assuming we accept the narrative that he started using steroids coming off injury in 1999 - he got over that 30-year old hump and was still legitimately putting up solid numbers into his mid-30s. If he’d never touched a needle and just tailed off naturally over the last 5-ish years of his career, retiring around 38, he’d still have been a no doubt first ballot HoFer, talked about in the same breath as Mays, Musial, etc. </p><p></p><p>Instead he had to subject us to almost a decade of the Barry Bonds Frankenstein freak show, permanently tainting his legacy and our memory of him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1797026, member: 26283"] He’s another of those outfielders whose careers cratered right around their 30th birthday. But in KGJ’s case, he was so overwhelmingly good for that first decade of his career, he still gets mentioned as an all time great. The crazy thing about Barry Bonds is that - assuming we accept the narrative that he started using steroids coming off injury in 1999 - he got over that 30-year old hump and was still legitimately putting up solid numbers into his mid-30s. If he’d never touched a needle and just tailed off naturally over the last 5-ish years of his career, retiring around 38, he’d still have been a no doubt first ballot HoFer, talked about in the same breath as Mays, Musial, etc. Instead he had to subject us to almost a decade of the Barry Bonds Frankenstein freak show, permanently tainting his legacy and our memory of him. [/QUOTE]
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