Oh Happy Day!
Baseball star Barry Bonds faces perjury charges, 30 years in prison
Let me explain why I think this is a great, great day for baseball. We can finally look at it. LOOK! See the steroids? See them? See the records we've broken falsely? See the culture we have created! See!
Barry Bonds is getting his asterisk! Barry Bonds will probably never play baseball again because he is currently without team! No one will want him! He is over! His reign of terror and his stranglehold on the homerun record is at an end!
Oh Happy Day!
There are commentators out there saying it's a sad day for baseball. Not it isn't. A sad day for baseball was August 7, 2007, when he broke the homerun record. A sad day was the day we baseball put his name on the same line with Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth. That was a sad day. Today is the vindication of that day. Today is the vindication for the truth we all knew to be evident for years!
Oh such a thing I am thankful for! Hank Aaron's record is in tact! My asterisk is assured at the very least and more than likely he will lose the record all together! What joy is mine!
I have said for a long time that I dislike (intensely HERE and HERE and HERE) Barry Bonds and the new era baseball entered into. The Sammy Sosa's, the Mark McGrath's ... even former Astros Roger Clemens ... it's taken 10 years, but perhaps now the reign of cheating will end. Perhaps now, I can point to marquee players (even A-Rod, though I'm loathe to admit it) and say "look son, that guy is a great ball player" and not feel a twinge in my stomach wondering if they are cheaters.
I'm glad this happened. I'm glad that jerk is going to be punished for the crimes he's committed. I feel sorry for his family. Shame on him for bringing this on them.
The Houston Chron has an article that I just don't agree with (surprise, surprise) ...
Bonds didn't get unlucky! Bonds threw his accomplishments in peoples faces! Bonds walked up the plate and rather than being happy just to play he'd stare down the ball like it was the devil himself and smack it like a demon ought to get him. He glared at it. He seemed to hate it. He's been standoffish with everyone. He's never been a good sport. And unlike the other players who have done great things with the help of drugs ... he's not sheepish about it! Mark McGwire is probably the saddest guy around (or was, during the congressional hearings) and Sammy Sosa is trying just to keep playing.
Bonds didn't care about ANY of that. He was going to break the most coveted record in baseball because he was the most egotistical player to ever hold a bat. He has said before he doesn't care about his fans, about his teammates, about his team. Some people want to go to the World Series ... Bonds wanted that record and to be the big leaguer in the hall of fame.
Not any more Bonds. You're career is over. Life as you know it is over. You will forever be remembered as one of the biggest cheats the game ever knew. You will be linked with the Black Sox, Pete Rose, and others who are banned from the hall of fame.
As the reporter said in the Chron, baseball will recover. Yes it will. In my mind, we're just now beginning to recover from the strikes. After the strikes, the steroids, perhaps now this marks the end of the steroids ... and real baseball can begin again.
Let me explain why I think this is a great, great day for baseball. We can finally look at it. LOOK! See the steroids? See them? See the records we've broken falsely? See the culture we have created! See!
Barry Bonds is getting his asterisk! Barry Bonds will probably never play baseball again because he is currently without team! No one will want him! He is over! His reign of terror and his stranglehold on the homerun record is at an end!
Oh Happy Day!
There are commentators out there saying it's a sad day for baseball. Not it isn't. A sad day for baseball was August 7, 2007, when he broke the homerun record. A sad day was the day we baseball put his name on the same line with Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth. That was a sad day. Today is the vindication of that day. Today is the vindication for the truth we all knew to be evident for years!
Oh such a thing I am thankful for! Hank Aaron's record is in tact! My asterisk is assured at the very least and more than likely he will lose the record all together! What joy is mine!
This is more damaging than an asterisk. This is potential jail time. This is substantial fines. This becomes Bonds' true legacy. ~ By Gene WojciechowskiSay it again!
Meanwhile, Bonds can pretty much forget about those 65 hits he needs to reach 3,000. He's finished. Done. The owner of the game's most valued record is now in a legal meat grinder that won't stop until he plea bargains or goes to trial and takes his chances with a jury.Thank goodness! I don't want Barry Bonds name anywhere near Craig Biggio and the other 3,000 hitters!
I have said for a long time that I dislike (intensely HERE and HERE and HERE) Barry Bonds and the new era baseball entered into. The Sammy Sosa's, the Mark McGrath's ... even former Astros Roger Clemens ... it's taken 10 years, but perhaps now the reign of cheating will end. Perhaps now, I can point to marquee players (even A-Rod, though I'm loathe to admit it) and say "look son, that guy is a great ball player" and not feel a twinge in my stomach wondering if they are cheaters.
I'm glad this happened. I'm glad that jerk is going to be punished for the crimes he's committed. I feel sorry for his family. Shame on him for bringing this on them.
The Houston Chron has an article that I just don't agree with (surprise, surprise) ...
Bonds got unlucky. He got involved with a Bay Area lab that was busted by
the feds. If he'd only gotten them someplace else, he'd be celebrated as the
game's new home-run king.
And then when he was given immunity to tell his story to a grand jury, he
did something unimaginably stupid. He lied, according to Thursday's indictment.
He simply was unwilling to admit that all his magnificent accomplishments were
based on a lie.
He could still change a lot of hearts and minds by simply telling the
truth, by asking for forgiveness.
Bonds didn't get unlucky! Bonds threw his accomplishments in peoples faces! Bonds walked up the plate and rather than being happy just to play he'd stare down the ball like it was the devil himself and smack it like a demon ought to get him. He glared at it. He seemed to hate it. He's been standoffish with everyone. He's never been a good sport. And unlike the other players who have done great things with the help of drugs ... he's not sheepish about it! Mark McGwire is probably the saddest guy around (or was, during the congressional hearings) and Sammy Sosa is trying just to keep playing.
Bonds didn't care about ANY of that. He was going to break the most coveted record in baseball because he was the most egotistical player to ever hold a bat. He has said before he doesn't care about his fans, about his teammates, about his team. Some people want to go to the World Series ... Bonds wanted that record and to be the big leaguer in the hall of fame.
Not any more Bonds. You're career is over. Life as you know it is over. You will forever be remembered as one of the biggest cheats the game ever knew. You will be linked with the Black Sox, Pete Rose, and others who are banned from the hall of fame.
As the reporter said in the Chron, baseball will recover. Yes it will. In my mind, we're just now beginning to recover from the strikes. After the strikes, the steroids, perhaps now this marks the end of the steroids ... and real baseball can begin again.
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