# Schilling's latest comments on Bonds & Big Mac.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 26, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215 "2007-07-26T12:37:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/1 "2007-07-26T12:37:02Z")
[Here is one ESPN article on it.](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2949168)
Please read the article for full context…
[QUOTE=Curt Schilling]
Barry [Bonds](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=3918) and Mark [McGwire’s](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=3866) refusals to address accusations of steroids use are tantamount to admissions.
“If someone wrote that stuff about me and I didn’t sue their [butt] off, am I not admitting that there’s some legitimacy to it?” he said on HBO’s “Costas Now.”
[/QUOTE]
I have to agree with Schilling on this one. I especially like what he said about Jose [Canseco](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=3730) and Rafael [Palmeiro](http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=3897).
I was happy Big Mac was denied his First Ballot HOF entrance. I hope Bonds suffers from the same treatment. I realize they will both get in eventually, but I do hold out hope that Palmiero might not. In my book, he was a weak candidate despite his numbers.
I got a very good laugh at what Bonds said about Costas. I do not agree, but it was funny.
[QUOTE=Bonds also said Wednesday]
Costas was a “midget who knows [nothing] about baseball.”
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Jim (Mods: Please feel free to move this over to GD or IMHO as you deem best, we still have no clear ruling on where threads like this belong.)
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### Author:  [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/2 "2007-07-26T12:39:57Z")
Schillings baseball related comments are usually interesting- his Chrisitian themed ones however, are not. In this case he’s obviously exactly right. I heard recently that Bonds has grown three shoe sizes in the last few years- what 40 year old has this happen to them?
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/3 "2007-07-26T13:03:00Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
Schillings baseball related comments are usually interesting- his Chrisitian themed ones however, are not. In this case he’s obviously exactly right. I heard recently that Bonds has grown three shoe sizes in the last few years- what 40 year old has this happen to them?
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Maybe he’s been drinking Mr. Burn’s “nerve tonic” resulting in gigantism, like Ken Griffey Jr. did in [Homer At The Bat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_at_the_Bat).
(How’d I forget that one in the other thread about “Top 10 Simpsons Episodes Ever” D’oh!)?
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/4 "2007-07-26T13:18:11Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
I heard recently that Bonds has grown three shoe sizes in the last few years- what 40 year old has this happen to them?
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Dr. David Banner?
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### Author:  [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/5 "2007-07-26T13:19:06Z")
I tend to disagree with the philosophy “if I accuse you of something, and you don’t defend yourself, then you’re guilty of it.”
But, with the amount of hoopla around it, you’d think Bonds would do something like that. Lance Armstrong would aggressively take on everyone who claimed he used.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/6 "2007-07-26T13:23:25Z")
The shot against Costas was not only mean, but stupid. Costas knows a lot about baseball.
Schilling’s saying what 100 million people have been saying for years. I’m not sure how much I agree with the “if you don’t sue you must be guilty” approach, but it’s hardly a new opinion. That he’s also a braying ass, so that you hear him a lot, doesn’t impress me.
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### Author:  [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/7 "2007-07-26T13:41:11Z")
Schilling is a blowhard and sort of a jerk.
But dammit he’s _MY_ blowhard and jerk.
I rarely disagree with what he says regarding baseball.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/8 "2007-07-26T13:49:23Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay]
The shot against Costas was not only mean, but stupid. Costas knows a lot about baseball.
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It was mean and it was stupid, but this not take away from the fact it still made me laugh. It was such a small-minded insult, that it tells us a lot more about Bonds than Costas.
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> Schilling’s saying what 100 million people have been saying for years. I’m not sure how much I agree with the “if you don’t sue you must be guilty” approach, but it’s hardly a new opinion. That he’s also a braying ass, so that you hear him a lot, doesn’t impress me.
100 millions fans may have been saying it for years, and I agree Schilling is a braying ass, but how many active professional baseball “Stars” have come straight out and said it?
Would it be worth more if Derek Jeter came out and said it? How about if Greg Maddox did?
I hope a few more stars will get more vocal about it and not just outspoken assholes like Schilling and Wells.
Jim
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/9 "2007-07-26T13:57:54Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
It was such a small-minded insult, that it tells us a lot more about Bonds than Costas.
[/QUOTE]
Well, they bowdlerized it a bit - in the actual quote, he referred to Costas as “puny human.”
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/10 "2007-07-26T15:59:15Z")
I don’t necessarily agree with Schilling’s reasoning, but I whole-heartedly agree with his conclusion. Bonds is a juicing asshole who should never be allowed into the Hall of Fame.
I’m still waiting for my meteor strike. Barring that, I want to be in the stands when A-rod passes him in home runs and renders his entire homerun pursuit meaningless.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/11 "2007-07-26T16:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=silenus]
I’m still waiting for my meteor strike. Barring that, I want to be in the stands when A-rod passes him in home runs and renders his entire homerun pursuit meaningless.
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Even if by some unexpected turn of events, he is still in pinstripes?
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### Author:  [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/12 "2007-07-26T16:05:22Z")
I’m glad Schilling did say something. It’s about time somebody did.
As for Schilling himself, Ed Wade put it best:
“Every fifth day, Curt was a horse for us. Every other day, he was a horse’s ass.”
😃
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### Author:  [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/13 "2007-07-26T16:09:07Z")
[QUOTE=silenus]
I don’t necessarily agree with Schilling’s reasoning, but I whole-heartedly agree with his conclusion. Bonds is a juicing asshole who should never be allowed into the Hall of Fame.
I’m still waiting for my meteor strike. Barring that, I want to be in the stands when A-rod passes him in home runs and renders his entire homerun pursuit meaningless.
[/QUOTE]
I’ve eventually reached the conclusion that Bonds is an ass, but even so, why would his home run pursuit be meaningless, even if he’s surpassed? It’s still a monumental achievement to pass Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron, it’s still a monumental achievement to hold the all-time home-run crown for any length of time, and it’s still a monumental achievement to be 2nd all-time.
No matter how you cut it, no matter how you loathe the man, Bonds is a legendary player. If he’s eventually proven to be cheating, then he should (and probably will) be banned from the Hall. But he would still be legendary, just a legendary cheat, and his holding the all-time home run crown at all would be a contributing factor.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/14 "2007-07-26T16:34:42Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
, I heard recently that Bonds has grown three shoe sizes in the last few years- what 40 year old has this happen to them?
[/QUOTE]
I’m not defending Bonds, but it’s not unusual for an adult’s feet to get longer and/or wider. Athletic shoe sizes are unpredictable, too, even within the same brand.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/15 "2007-07-26T16:41:28Z")
[This](http://www.theonion.com/content/news/barry_bonds_home_run_scandal) is my favorite commentary on the Bonds story now.
> [@](#):
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> “Bonds is not exactly my hero,” said Braves fan Bradley Hanson, who flew to San Francisco for Monday night’s Braves game in order to pointedly not boo Bonds. “But he’s a reminder that in these troubled times for sports, there are still players whose crimes are simple, pure, and only tarnish our beloved sport and everything it stands for without killing anybody.”
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/16 "2007-07-26T16:44:31Z")
[http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/your\_aching\_feet.html](http://www.aarpmagazine.org/health/your_aching_feet.html)
> [@](#):
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> Fix the fit of your shoes. As you get older, your feet may get longer and wider. “Have your foot sized each time you purchase shoes,” urges Harold Glickman, D.P.M., former president of the APMA.
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/17 "2007-07-26T16:44:52Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn]
heard recently that Bonds has grown three shoe sizes in the last few years- what 40 year old has this happen to them?
[/QUOTE]
Incidentally, his cup size is doing the exact opposite… 🆒
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/18 "2007-07-26T16:45:47Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott]
I’m not defending Bonds, but it’s not unusual for an adult’s feet to get longer and/or wider. Athletic shoe sizes are unpredictable, too, even within the same brand.
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, my shoe size went up a notch unexpectedly (and rather quickly) in adulthood, and none of my old shoes fit any more.
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### Author:  [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/19 "2007-07-26T16:47:01Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse]
[This](http://www.theonion.com/content/news/barry_bonds_home_run_scandal) is my favorite commentary on the Bonds story now.
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I literally spat out my Fanta when I read that. Now there’s orange gunk on my keyboard. ☹
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### Author:  [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schillings-latest-comments-on-bonds-big-mac/413215/20 "2007-07-26T16:49:14Z")
[QUOTE=Windwalker]
I literally spat out my Fanta when I read that. Now there’s orange gunk on my keyboard. ☹
[/QUOTE]
A banner reading, “Make Us Relatively Proud, Barry!” 😛
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