In a panel Sunday morning at SoxFest, Frank Thomas was asked about his view on steroid use during his career. Thomas, regarded as one of the few clean players from the steroid era, passed along an encounter he had with Barry Bonds in 1993 when the pair met to accept their American League and National League MVP awards:
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White Sox TalkThomas recounts what Bonds told him at '93 MVP ceremony: "Yeah, I heard about you a little bit, but I'm the best player in the game."
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Thomas said he looks back at that and realizes that's just who Bonds was -- a great player, but someone who was "greedy" and wanted to do anything to be the best player to ever play the game.
But, at the same time, Thomas recognizes that Bonds and Clemens were great at their craft before they purportedly began taking steroids. But they still did take PED, so in Thomas' mind, "it's going to be hard."