I heard today that Barry Bonds arrived at training camp on crutches after knee surgery.  After blaming the media for "getting to him", Bonds indicated that he will be out for at least the first half of (and possibly the whole) baseball season.

The timing of the surgery and the announcement are a bit fishy.

• Inactive players don't show a performance dropoff since they're not playing.
• Do injured players have to take drug tests?
• If this knee injury ends up being "career threatening", will his current statistics be less-tainted in baseball history?
• Can Bonds blame his eventual performance dropoff on the knee, rather than going off the juice?
• (Please add your own)