Fastball Fans

Well, David Ortiz is highly skeptical about Barry Bonds and his use of performance enhancing drugs. He’s not even sure if steroids helped Barry Bonds.

Ortiz asserts:

“To hit the ball, the guy makes it look easy, but it ain’t. I don’t know how you can have that swing, consistently. I don’t know how steroids can do that,” Ortiz told the Boston Herald. “There are supposed to be guys using steroids in the game, and there’s nobody close to Barry Bonds. What’s that mean? He was using the best [stuff]? Know what I’m saying?”

“I don’t look at it like that. I look at it hitting-wise, because I don’t know what steroids can do to you as a baseball player. You’ve still got to swing the bat, man,” Ortiz said. “If I ever use steroids, and then I know what the difference can be and I’m using them, I’ll tell you, ‘Yeah, whatever,’ but I don’t know what the feelings are when you use the steroids. But I can tell you how it feels to pull yourself together to swing the bat.”

Then Ortiz says that he’s not sure he’s taken steroids himself.

“I tell you, I don’t know too much about steroids, but I started listening about steroids when they started to bring that [stuff] up, and I started realizing and getting to know a little bit about it,” Ortiz told the Herald. “You’ve got to be careful. … I used to buy a protein shake in my country. I don’t do that any more because they don’t have the approval for that here, so I know that, so I’m off of buying things at the GNC back in the Dominican. But it can happen anytime, it can happen. I don’t know. I don’t know if I drank something in my youth, not knowing it.”

I don’t know what Ortiz was thinking, but he’s got a point – steroids will not help you hit the ball; however, it will make you the ball further.

Steroids do aid in bodybuilding/weight training in which they do help the body recover quicker, thus aids in muscle recovery and makes them larger; therefore, it makes one stronger.

Why David would think Barry did not do steroids, I don’t know… I mean just look at Barry Bonds throughout the years.