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Take that, steroid-addled freak

By Phil Barron ⋅ July 27, 2007 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Post a comment

Because BoSox hurler and professional opinionista Curt Schilling said on Costas Now what pretty much everyone across the country is saying about Barry Bonds - that is, that he’s a steroid cheat - Bonds fired off a rejoinder at, er, Bob Costas. Apparently, steroids don’t do much for your aim. Anyway, Bonds called Costas a “little midget man who absolutely knows shit* about baseball.”

“Midget man”? Weird. I don’t know what the Revolutionary War has to do with anything, but let’s move on.

Costas responded to the affable Bonds today with the verbal equivalent of a nice little curveball. It looks pleasantly hittable, and then drops right off the table:

“As anyone can plainly see, I’m 5-6 1/2 and a strapping 150, and unlike some people, I came by all of it naturally,” Costas said Thursday in a telephone interview. [...]

“I’ve actually always had a pretty cordial relationship with Barry,” Costas said. “I have no ill feelings toward him personally. I regard him as one of the greatest players of all time who got an inauthentic boost and then became a superhuman player. I wish him no ill whatsoever.”

Don’t think Bonds will catch up to that one. As they say at Deadspin, +1 to Costas.

*Nearly all press accounts have substituted “nothing” or “bleep” for Bonds’ scatological invective. Yeah, like you’d believe that coming from Barry.

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