Barry Bonds

Click on the title of this post to go to a great editorial on the whole Bonds scandal.

Well it appears that after reading the linked article, Jose Canseco and I agree on something. That's odd as I'm not a big fan of Canseco. Canseco and the guys that wrote the book "BALCO: Book of Shadows" are what I like to call "Negative Noras". They like to suck the fun out of everything and put misery and moral judgements into something that is just fun and relaxing. These are the same twits that post screen shots of the latest Harry Potter book or boldly and loudly blab the ending all over the world. No one seems to just want to believe in the myth, the fantasy anymore. It's kind of like George Lucas basically telling us that The Force was just a high concentration of microscopic bacteria. Thanks George, way to be a buzzkill pal. What good ol' Jose and I agree on is this simple fact: steroids does not make your eye hand coordination better. Simple. It takes training and agility to be able to hit a baseball like Bonds does. Look at all of the other players that allegedly took steroids. Did Canseco hit as many homers as Bonds? Did Canseco every hit the ball as good as Bonds does period? Hell no. Maguire? Close, but not as techical of a hitter as Bonds. Magure=slugger. Bonds=surgeon. The whole hating of Barry gets me too. The media and the naysayers act like he's the only athlete in the history of sports to use steroids. Tell me that's not a true statement. It's always this way though whenever some modern day athlete goes to shatter some ancient record that has been around forever. Guess what folks; it's the 21rst Century.....shits a lot different and a lot more advanced than in the 70's (thank God for that!!!). Barry does deserve some of the hatred thrown his way; I'll concede that point. He's basically an arrogant ass. He's a freaking primadona and as a player he stopped trying out in the outfield 6 years ago. So yeah, he deserves the criticism that gets thrown his way. Basically he's lazy and doesn't feel he needs to do anything but hit the damn ball anymore. I personally think the use of steroids is stupid, but in a sense it's our fault. We the fans want more and more from our sports heroes. They have to be mutants or Superman and we won't accept any less from them. Lot's of pressure. Although in a sense we do deserve to be that demanding. It costs an arm and a leg to go to a baseball game nowadays. (not as much as a football game, but pretty damn bad nonetheless). 8 dollar beer, 5 dollar soda, hotdogs for 3 bucks......15 dollars to sit in the bleachers.....the fricking bleachers folks!!!! The program costs 20 bucks or more.....Hell I remember when they were like 5 bucks and we always got one because there was a score sheet in the back where you could score the game. That was my generations version of an interactive experience. Now, they don't sell. We've always known that major league sports are a business, but that was always background stuff. When you used to go to the game it was just about Baseball. Now it's about Corporate Sponsors and naming rights and distracting crap like that. The fading of the Fantasy.....the fading of the mythology. Bonds is Bonds. Love him or hate him, he will either break the record and be hated for all eternity, or he will fall short and be forced to retire and be hated for all eternity. No matter what you do, a piece of crap is a piece of crap. It still stinks no matter what. Might as well go out with a bang Barry and just do what you normally do. Toot your own horn.