There are few baseball fans out there that are as passionate about defending the players union as I am. But stuff like this is just ridiculous. It’s collusion because teams have decided that Barry Bonds – he of the prima donna attitude, the clubhouse cancer personality, and the non-stop media attention he attracts due to his use of performance-enhancing drugs (and related perjury trial) – isn’t worth signing to a new contract?
I understand the spirit of this inquiry and I know that labor lawyers have to pursue cases in order to protect the rank-and-file union members down the road. But Barry Bonds isn’t worth the trouble. No one misses him. He’s horrible for the union because he’s the poster-child for why players – and not owners, management, fans, and the media – are being blamed for the rampant use of PED’s in baseball. If the union ever wanted to distance itself from its own history of involvement with PED’s, it would let Barry rot in his mansion in L.A., all alone, as he deserves to be.
I understand the spirit of this inquiry and I know that labor lawyers have to pursue cases in order to protect the rank-and-file union members down the road. But Barry Bonds isn’t worth the trouble. No one misses him. He’s horrible for the union because he’s the poster-child for why players – and not owners, management, fans, and the media – are being blamed for the rampant use of PED’s in baseball. If the union ever wanted to distance itself from its own history of involvement with PED’s, it would let Barry rot in his mansion in L.A., all alone, as he deserves to be.
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