"You finally got me." In announcing he's done (possibly for the season), Barry Bonds' mistake is appealing for pity through the filter of the very media he's blaming. But the media is impervious to guilt trips. But buried within Barry Bonds' pity party is some truth: As baseball's biggest (and most media-unfriendly) star, Bonds has had to deal with the most aggressive take-down campaign in sports history. I can see the cynics' viewpoint: That he's sitting out the year to let the rage over 'roids simmer down. I can appreciate the critics' frustration: That he's projecting blame for troubles of his own creation onto the media. But I can also understand that when the media can break the will of someone as strong as Bonds, that's a unique achievement -- and not something to be proud of. Congratulations! We've driven the era's best baseball player out of the game.
-Dan Shanoff, ESPN.com
When I read that, I just wanted to vomit. The concept of accountability (remember that word? It means something your parents should've taught you when you were old enough to know better) is a foreign one to Barry Lamar Bonds. No one in the general public or the media shot him up with steroids. No one in the general public or the media told him to cheat on his wife and his three children for eight years with a gold-digging whore who is now singing to the Feds like a canary. In short, no one in either of these groups has done anything to Barry Bonds other than boo him at the ballpark or ask him tough but fair and honest questions. I can understand the pressure Bonds must be under right now with all that he must be going through. However, that doesn't mean that I excuse it or sympathize one bit. His problems are of his own creation and he doesn't deserve our sympathy, if only because he is trying to blame US for everything going on in his life.
Barry Bonds, FUCK YOU. You're a douchebag and you've been one your whole life. You don't deserve your family's love.
PS -- If anyone really, truly believes that Bonds will miss the season or any part of it (other than the necessary knee-rehab time), they're nuts. Since pulling out of the MLBPA Licensing Agreement last winter, Barry Bonds' self-licensed merchandise and memorabilia has cleared an income into the seven figures. The average cut for players operating within the framework of the MLBPA Licencing Agreement is $20,000. Missing any time at all would cost him revenue and he's not about to miss out on what will be a windfall once he actually cheats his way past The Babe.
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Anyone with a middle name of Lamar is a douchebag in my book anyway. I should have done the research back in '92, when he was a skinny kid stealing bases for the Pirates. I would have realized that w/ a middle name of Lamar, he would be susceptible to teasing and eventual peer pressure to take steroids.
Wait. So so your saying you don't like Barry?
I for one can sympathize. I mean playing baseball should not only get you millions of dollars but also should exempt you, completely and totally, from any criticism of any type. I think not talking about steriods and acknowledging how he's better than Ruth and Aaron is the least we could do for Barry especially after all that he's done for us.
So who's willing to bet that as soon as Barry returns, ESPN will get back on his junk?
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