All-Time Home Run Leader rips Bonds following steroids testimony

[Champ]

Hank Aaron was once an admirer and supporter of Barry Bonds. Now, the all-time home run king says he is disturbed to hear Bonds' statements to a grand jury in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative investigation, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The San Francisco Chronicle was the first to report last week about Bonds' testimony to a grand jury in which he said he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by fitness trainer (and personal friend) Greg Anderson, who was indicted in a steroid distribution ring. But Bonds said he didn't know they were steroids.

"First, since I played the game myself, I know that you can't put something in your body to make you hit a fastball, changeup or curveball," Aaron told the newspaper over the weekend.

In the story, Aaron wonders aloud about Bonds' steroid use as his body has begun to age.

"The only person who can do that (read: help a player hit the baseball) is the good Lord. But, at that age (40), you have to ask: Did he accomplish all of this by rejuvenating his strength from day to day with those substances? I know that when you reach a certain age, you just don't bounce back as quickly as you think you can when you're playing all of those games."

http://msn.foxsports.com/story/3222910

[TexasSissy]

1. I wouldn't call that a "rip."

It sounds like a "fair and balanced" statement. But seriously, it just sounds like a questioning statement, far from a rip.