02.28.07 BARRY BONDS WAS A LATE BLOOMER
Game of Shadows is being released in paperback, and Mark (Jedi name) Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams have written a special afterword that documents, for the 3 billionth time, that Barry Bonds used every performance-enhancing drug on the planet. An excerpt:
For his part, [equipment manager Mike] Murphy could document Bonds' physical changes via the changes in his uniform size. Since joining the Giants, Bonds had gone from a size 42 to a size 52 jersey; from size 10 ½ to size 13 cleats; and from a size 7 1/8 to size 7 ¼ cap, even though he had taken to shaving his head. The changes in his foot and head size were of special interest: medical experts said overuse of Human Growth Hormone could cause an adult's extremities to begin growing.
I dunno. I don't really see how this proves anything. I mean, it's pretty common for a grown man's feet to grow two and a half sizes when he works out in the gym as much as Bonds. Combine that with the growth spurt most men have in their early 30s, and it makes perfect sense.
Besides, I don't think we can trust these numbers. No way dude's head was only a 7¼ in 2003. Normal people can wear a 7¼. He was rocking at least an eight and a half. He didn't have a real head so much as a vaguely head-shaped prize-winning potato.
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BARRY BONDS WAS A LATE BLOOMER
What about the decrease in the size of his testicles by 5000 percent?
I was under the impression that PEDs are supposed to shrink your extremities, as it were. Have I been lied to this whole time?
Fucking bullshit! I’m a hat size 7 1/4 and I’m 5′6″, 140. Maybe my head has its own weather system?
Biff, the irony is that the visible extremities such had head and feet grow, but the valuable extremities shrink like a wool sweater in a dryer.
I’m 5′8″ and 160 and i wear a 7 1/2…and my head isn’t even that big.
Are we talking about Barry Bonds or Al Gore?
And what’s up with that Bonds’ pic uptop? His skin has the greeny glow of sun-fucked Arby’s sandwich.
I think he was a 9.5 shoe in Pittsburgh.
Not that I care to defend this dude (at all) but last I heard he has ALWAYS been 6 ft. 2in. tall…not alot of dudes 6 ft 2 in. tall with size 10.5 feet…or even 9.5 at that…but maybe he does???
Gotta join the B.S. chorus on the hat size. I’m about 6′2″ and, okay, I have a big melon, but I wear a 7 5/8, and have since I weighed less than 2 bills. Bonds has to wear at least that these days.
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