my whole thing about it barry is that you can actually see that he's a good hitter......power and steriods aside, he knows how to hit a ball better than anyone playing baseball today. and people always compare how skinny he was when he started with how big he is now......that shit didn' happen over night....or over an offseason......it took some time....and noone cared that mark mcguire ate steriods for breakfast, because he was a great white slugger. after his steriod stuff, it tarnished him, but not as much as just an allegation did to barry. and the cork bat did to sosa.
as far as gays in la, there's the same amount if not more gay people in la....the difference is the sco has a street/area dedicated for them, in la there's no specific place for them (except wnba games)