Wally Backman on Barry Bonds and Steroids (035)
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- A clip from the Wally Backman RV Interview. In this clip, Wally discusses MLB's steroid problem. He maintains that Barry Bonds has been made a scapegoat for a much larger problem. "It was an issue that should've been addressed many, many years ago. And it wasn't." - Wally Backman
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Wally Backman: "Baseball's never gonna change."
Rob Manfred: "Hold my $18 beer, ghost runner, pitch clock, interleague play, three batter minimum, and automatic intentional walk."
Don't forget having a baserunner start at 2nd if a game goes to extra innings, putting netting all over the foul lines so that no foul balls ever go into the stands or out of play, having designated hitters in both leagues, erecting George Floyd statues I every park despite him never playing baseball, allowing players to switch teams during a game, and of course, making sure the Yankees win every title eve year 😂.
"it wasn't illegal" -- but we all KNEW it wasn't right..... that's all a cop out , Wally. As a fan when I buy a ticket to a game, I DESERVE to know that game is being played fairly.
The game wouldn’t even be here in the extent we know it now! MLB would have never recovered from the 93-94 strike! Steroids saved baseball. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa home run chase saved baseball. That got people back into the stadiums.
@@coltenmitchell585 baloney !
Loved the amazing Mets with Dykstra, Backman, Hernandez, Strawberry, Carter, Knight, Teufel, Mookie, and Doc. Good times.
Thought the Amazing Mets were in 69
It's ridiculous they won't put him in the HOF
John S- its ridculous they wont put a cheater with phoney muscles in the hall of fame?
I love Wally backman but let's be real here Jose Canseco is the one that went down for all of it not Barry Bonds.
No one forced Canseco to write books detailing everyone's business and personal details like a little bitch trying to take everyone down with him on the sinking ship that was his career. He could've kept it focused and reserved to organization and/or league malpractice or whatever, but he decided to drag every other players name he could through the dirt along with his own. It was a slime ball ratty move on his part and the #1 reason so many hate him and will be happy dragging his name through the dirt for a long time. He brought a whole wave of negativity against his own life because that's the way he chose to play it. He could've handled things differently but that's what he chose to do.
No but he was disrespected by the league so he decided to get even everyone man is entitled to a little revenge
I understand everything he's saying...until 2:03... So the dude who used steroids was a better HR hitter than the dude who was 5'10" 180 lbs and didn't use steroids? Makes perfect sense.
Bond's is NOT the greatest HR hitter in history. It will forever be Hammer'n Hank!
Guess you missed the part about guys in the 50s, 60s & 70s taking stuff too. Everybody (except maybe you) knows every MLB clubhouse had an open bowl of Greenies (amphetamines). Hank took 'em, so did Mays, Ted Williams and all the great players of those eras who all get a pass.
@@nltcrow9575 Greenies only kept you alert, they did not increase body mass.
nuttin toseehere No doubt
Whats red juice?
Adrenochrome? Lol
I always did like Wally Backman and he's right about Barry Bonds. Period. 👍
Your a clown look up roidboy stats NEVER IN HISTORY OF MORE THAN 100 YEARS HAS ANYONE HIT 40 OR MORE FROM AGE 38 AND OLDER in one season NEVER !! He cheated and griffey junior told about it in his book so not Mays Not Aaron noone hit 40 or more in a season after age 38. But the drug trio of mcguire sosa and the 10 year cheater they could do it. He wont get in to HOF and theres the proof because every guy with 500 or more is in it.
@@craigscheffUWDayne33 I usually dont respond to assholes that resort to name calling but it needs to be said that many of the pitchers facing Bonds were using steroids. Steroids actually created interest and saved the game of baseball by creating the homerun derby between Sosa and McGwire for one so save your whining for another subject...
@@FrankLee-qd3hy agreed.
no... he isn't
EXACTLY!!! People should educate themselves on what steroids is, and isn't!!! Yes you get stronger... Testosterone makes you stronger, heal faster, have a bigger appetite... It doesn't make you a BASEBALL PLAYER! it doesn't make you hit... Or see the ball... If it did, then everyone would take it and be a great baseball player... Barry bonds is maybe the best hitter in the HISTORY of MLB... Did the juice make him better? Probably....but he was a hall of famer before he took steroids... I'm not even really a big bonds fan, but I am a big baseball fan, and that man was the best hitter I ever saw
@ Mike Rotando
Dude your take is terrible. You obviously never took steroids and never played professionally bc if you had, you would know that steriods make you bigger, stronger and faster and makes you a better player. I know because I took them and played professionally.
He didn’t just take testosterone, he legit took everything. He even took insulin. It was like he was prepping to become Mr. Olympia. It’s a wonder he didn’t die. Agree with other commenter, u hav never taken steroids. U would know what they do if u had
Because he and lenny were juicing.
Lets ask Ken Caminiti
A video where Wally doesn't cuss.
right response.. respect
Finally someone with some credibility sticking up for Barry Bonds!
Wrong, Henry Aaron is the greatest home run hitter ever.
Judging by Wallys teeth he has gone through quite a few cans of Skoal during his baseball career.
What Wally is saying. Everyone was ch acting during Bonds tenure. But, because Bonds had the most success. He was targeted harder than anyone. The bottom line, baseball needs to clean up its act regarding a lot of these issues today. Bonds was the greatest player to ever play the game. With or without steroids. Having nothing to do particularly with Bonds. His era as a whole was the problem. Doesn’t make it right. But, it does make things honest. No cheaters should be accepted and I’m likely one of the largest Barry Bonds fan ever. None of them should be allowed in HOF. Particularly Pete Rose. But, the largest problem in baseball pertains to these problems. Is how baseball is ran. It’s the leagues fault
kinda surprised at backman stance on steroids being a old school guy
i bet he was juicing the two guys that failed during this doc
and i love wally so much i wanted him as the mets coach and still do but he kinda did this all to himself
He'd like a job in MLB, he has to be unbiased.
Respectful Wally I completely disagree!
Walt is nuts
Barry gets singled out because he broke records. That's the only reason. He was better than the other guys who were taking PEDs , he had more success , so he gets more grief. And he's not a particularly likeable fellow either so it's easy to vilify him. But it's horseshit really. Bonds would not have hit like he did in his last few seasons without PEDs, no question. Nobody's bat speed increases at 37 yrs old naturally. But he was not the only one doing the stuff. He just had more success
One of the very few things I disagree with Wally about. Perhaps he said it because his good friend Lenny Dykstra too them.
He was never convicted you idiot
sorry wally; bonds will be remembered for being a cheat and i don't care how many others were doing it. they cheated as well.
So they all cheated? Let’s put the bench boy in the hall of fame then. What a joke.
Amazing
The ones that bothered me the most even worse then Bonds were Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa & Tony La Russa. #1 as Wally said everyone knew juicing was going on & how La Russa can say he had no clue we know he knew. #2 Sosa forgets how to understand English & Mark McGwire trying to tell people his career was god given abilities which is BS. He juiced we knew for him to say god given abilities I had then why did you take them??? He said he was hurt then retire & go away to fish, the beach or wherever. The offending thing are those who give La Russa & McGwire a pass. I don’t agree with Keith Olbermann much but he said “Why are we keeping the steroid players out & La Russa who knew it was happening he makes the Hall.
What Barry did was legendary. I mean ALOT of players were doing stuff , Barry was just on a diff level.
Big Mets' Fan Here.
Loved Backman as a Met, and always willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
That said, after watching "Playing for Peanuts" videos, all I can say is...
Wally has a great baseball mind but is fatally flawed with persecution complex/anger management issues that will doom his potential for a MLB managerial career.
Sorry Wally.
Sadly, you and Len Dykstra were/are two peas in a pod.
Regretfully,
Eddie K.
Wrong, wally
Uh really? Aaron was hitting against guys like Ryan, Gibson, Carlton, Koufax - guys that were 4x any of the pitchers we see today.
lmao @ the flea
Barry Bonds is the G.O.A.T!!!
Aaron is still the home run king and the great thing about Hank is that he doesn't even care
Aaron aint no fucking home run king Barry is you dipshit you need to stop that stupid shit your doing.
Mr Lewis
What’s he doing?
I understand that members of the Baseball Writers Association choose to turn a blind eye to all (alleged) steroid users. But, in my opinion, there are two players whose talent they should not ignore: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. The reason for the disgust at Bonds is that broke Aaron's record with the help of PEDs. If Bonds had finished his career 4th on the list of all-time home run hitters, he'd be a shoo-in. Breaking the record is what destroyed his reputation. And legacy. Steroids, when it came to players like Sosa and McGwire, turned good hitters into great hitters. With Barry Bonds, steroids turned a great hitter into a God.
Holdenon3 it was the 60-70 home runs a season that did it
BARRY IS THE G.O.A.T. The rocket challenged congress that's why he wont get he should of stayed quiet and he would not be the sacrificial white player they had to use to cover their ass on racial hate of Barry Bonds I was a clubby in the N.L. for 20 years I know what goes on the CISM is plain as day.
Took the blunt?😳
Well, I liked Wally prior to this.
To me the greatest player of all time was Babe Ruth and to me even though he had to bat 2500 more times than Ruth to get the record Hank Aaron is the home run king!
I can’t consider Ruth the greatest of all time because he didn’t play against the best players. There’s an entire race of ball players he didn’t play against in the majors.
I agree on both counts. Today the players are juiced, the ball is juiced and the stadiums are juiced for more home runs. If Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron okayed today they’d be pushing 1,000 home runs
what alcohol haha
... I'm not a fan of Wally Backman, but I appreciate what he's saying here and I agree with him 100%. So, bravo to him.
Babe ruth was on some stuff worse than steroids
yeah pulled pork
Yeah, becs I guess medical advancements were so much greater in the 1920s, compared to the 1990s.
I guit listening to this guy when he started defending that cheat Bonds! Look, if every one would had use steroids Barry would had been just and average player! Ken Griffey Jr. would had blow him out of the water! Don’t tell me how good Bonds was without roids, because we don’t know!! Could you imagine Mickey Mantle on the crap, instead of his beer diet!
Average player ha! It's Barry Bonds. He could have closed his eyes and still would have stolen more bases than Griffey.
Double D - Your ignorance is astounding! The consunsus is Barry did not begin juicing til after he watched McGwire & Sosa's 1998 season. Compare Griffey's & Bonds stats prior to that. Bonds > Griffey
Bonds was a Hall of Famer prior to juicing. He pissed it all away with his ego.
@@nltcrow9575 From 1993-2000 Griffey hit 40 or more home runs every year, except for 1995 when he only played 72 games, with back to back 56 home runs in '97 and '98. From the start of his career until '99 Bonds reached 40 three times. Griffey lost so many games to injury and would have easily been the home run king if healthy. Griffey > Bonds
KGJ was a phenomenal baseball player, but he was not Barry bonds. He never stole base like bonds, he never had bonds power, he never had the eye at the plate bonds had, he never could hit for average like bonds. I’m a Cincinnati guy and adore ken Griffey and the fact that he accomplished what he did without PEDs but bonds was an other worldly talent and the best of his time
Backman is full of it. Rationalizing cheating on a grand scale, and defending the greatest cheater of them all. Huge fan of baseball since the 50's, but people like him are why I walked away from baseball in the late 90's, and I'm never coming back.
You’re completely delusional. Defending the greatest cheater of them all? So that’s to say that Barry bonds cheated more than the other 80% of baseball that was using? How absurd. There’s no rationalization, it’s people like you who want to dwell on it and and shun the greats of that era instead of just looking at it as a time when the powers that be turned a blind to a rampant issue in the sport. Baseball is a cutthroat game and superstars and nobodys alike were going to whatever extent they had to to either keep there job in baseball or compete with the best. If someone told you that you could take a magic pill and be better then the next guy at your job and you could make 50% more money and would be willing to wager that 95% of people would take it. Barry bonds was the best player of the 90s before steroids and saw guys with half the talent in Sosa and McGuire breaking records and drawing attention in 98 and decided to “level the playing field” and what do you know, in a game where everyone was juicing he was lightyears better then anyone else in baseball. There is no drug that could supply Barry with the gifts he had, Barry might see one good pitch in an entire game and would take that pitch and hit it 400 ft. Arguably nobody in the history of the game has had the plate discipline he had or the power speed combo to hit 500 hrs and steal 500 bases (which no one has come even close to accomplishing) and he would’ve easily done that without steroids. Barry may not of hit 762 home runs w/o steroids, but it’s idiots like you that scream cheater instead of acknowledging and appreciating his greatness and leaving it at that turn people off to baseball. You make it out like this was a time when only 20 or so guys juiced and ruined the game for everyone else. Let me give you a dose of reality that you quite obviously and baseball purists fail to acknowledge; baseball is a cheaters sport. Always has been. There have always been players that look for advantages outside of the rules, and there have been advantages inside the rules to the pitchers that skew the stats as they relate to later eras. The deadball era was a clear and obvious time of a massive advantage for the pitcher. Does that mean Walter Johnson isn’t in conversation as the best pitcher of a time? Of course he is. That’s the beauty of baseball, every era had the game being played a little differently with different means for cheating wether it be corked bats, amphetamines, Emory balls, spitballs, sign stealing, etc and it’s time people stop bitching about the juice of the 90s and just embrace it as a crazy time in baseball when there just so happened to be all time greats that used it such as arod, bonds, and Clemens and let’s also not forget that baseball was saved by steroids. Fans resented players after the strike and the home run chase breathed life back into the game. I do believe however that baseball is a terribly monotonous boring game now because the home run has become rampant due to juiced baseballs and no it is a 3 true outcome game where a guy is almost guaranteed a walk, a K, or a bomb. I’d love to see baseball go back to small ball, the home run is a cheap thrill. On that note, I’m sorry for such a long comment, but your comment was utterly ridiculous coming from someone who is “a huge fan of baseball since the 50s”, it seems incredibly shallow minded to throw a blanket over what Wally said and do nothing but call Barry the greatest cheater of them all. That’s completely absurd
@@jarredthorpe846 You didn't really need to write a book. I understood in the first couple sentences that in your little world, the ends justify the means. You believe in moral relativism, an intellectual copout. And you love to call people names. The rest of what you wrote was needless pablum. Believe what you want, and I'll do the same.
buckfan1969 in your little world morality trumps reality. The people in baseball as well as every sport are a representation of the people that make up society; there’s cheaters, degenerates, saints, and the weak. Your problem is you can’t separate the reality of how people are and the dream of how they should. People at their core are the same now as they were in 1920 and babe Ruth, Roger Hornsby, ty Cobb etc would’ve been taking steroids in 2000 had they played then. If 80% of players in 2000 take steroids then that means the average Joe walking the street had the ability to play pro ball at that time would’ve more than likely used PEDs. My point being is that it’s the human condition to try to succeed by any means wether it’s right or not. If almost your entire profession cheats then it almost ceases being cheating. The NFL is rampant with steroids rn and has no PED policy worth a shit. Do you not watch football? If creatine became a banned substance tomorrow, and say mike trout and the rest of baseball continued using it would that be cheating? I’m sorry it’s bothersome to you that I type these drawn comments, but this to me is a subject I’m quite passionate about, especially when a single individual is lambasted as the scourge of the sport for doing something that current HOFers did. I shouldn’t of been so insulting to you in my previous comment but I fail to see where you’re coming from, because this conversation is not a nature of morality but reality
buckfan1969 the bottom line is the steroid era isn’t an indictment on Barry bonds, Roger Clemens or whoever but on baseball and who we are as people
@@jarredthorpe846 In my little world? Yes, baseball is at fault for letting it go one while it filled the seats. And that's when I walked away from baseball after being a diehard fan for over 40 years. But in my little world I don't excuse those who cheated, then tried to cover it up, and then lied under oath about it. Maybe in your little world all that crap is ok. But I don't apologize for cheaters.
But others who "Cheated" didn't get crucified like Bonds
Clemens
I'm not a Barry fan. But after listing to Wally, now I have to take a step back. Bonds did introduce steroids into the majors, but he's carrying the weight for years of other players, before and after him.
It's the MLB and the media that wants to put a face to it!.
He did not introduce steroids lol
Lol i cant believe how dumb you guys are
Get the facts and then reply It was Canseco who introduced steroids to the sport college or pro he was the first known user
34stzoo no way did Bonds introduce steroids to MLB, he didn’t start until he saw what it did for Sosa and McGwire, after their chase for 60. But people don’t notice that every year there are players who get caught for PEDs and a lot of them are marginal position players that you can hardly notice are juicing. Even without steroids, Bonds was the best player in MLB but steroids will get a lot of unfair credit for it.
bonds was average the first 4 years of his career and i'm being kind. suddenly in 1990 when steroids was being used he became good and later great when he too more.
BARRY IS THE G.O.A.T. LET HIM IN NOW