Friday Fire: Why Has Barry Bonds Been Erased From the Game a Year After Setting the Home Run Record?
I was there. 713 landed 20 feet from me. I expressed to my son he better remember this moment
Writing a piece that will be up next week on Barry. I find it crazy that dude is a mere afterthought a year after blasting 756. Do you remember how you felt today last year?
If Barry Bonds is that foul, then why hasn’t anyone else touched his numbers–even if they took PED’s?
If I was Barry I’d consider suing MLB and Bud Selig. He and he alone put a charge (fan hatred and anticipation) in the game that it greedily feeds off as I type.
For the young folk out there who don’t think George Steinbrenner wouldn’t have signed Barry when he was still around, you are sorrowfully mistaken. BB is Reggie Jax.
Keep working out Barry and don’t stop.
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August 8th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
It’s shameful. I’m a Dodger fan and I’ve developed a great deal of sympathy for him over the last four or five years. The scales have definitely fallen from my eyes. It’s not even that, well, maybe Barry did some steroids and that’s not good………but the man has never backed down…the media have straight up crucified dude and he’s taken it like a man. I got mad respect for him.
August 8th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
The fix was in the day he hit no. 700 and the real chase began. I knew that once he passed Ruth and Aaron. Selig was going to get his “revenge” on Bonds.
This is without a doubt one of the most shameful things in sports. What’s more shameful is that the MSM treats it as taboo. But as time goes on it will be harder to avoid the elephant in the room.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I didn’t read this story yet…however the picture alone is shameful as the little boys in the foreground were taught to jeer Barry Bonds…sad. I wonder where they learned such things? South Philadelphia maybe had something to do with it?
August 8th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Wow. We dusting off the BB issue again? My opinion, for what its worth, is that he brought it all on himself. “Taken it like a man” TC, really? How? Seriously, I’m curious. Dont you think if he were ‘taking it like a man’ he would have been honest from the get-go? We wouldnt be looking at the photo of two-kids taunting BB if he WERE a real man. Sorry, kids, but Mizzo knows that I have a different opinion than most when it comes to this topic. I’m not discounting his contribution to sports, I’m just not putting him in the category of being a ‘man’. Honesty makes a man. And its shamefull that he didnt step up and be one.
August 8th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
LOL!!! That’s a funny picture.
August 9th, 2008 at 12:25 am
The Answer: C-O-L-L-U-S-I-O-N.
Every excuse has been stripped. The Steinbrenner point says it all. This Bonds thing — and MSM — make me ill on so many levels.
Delinda, just checked your site for the first time and appreciate many of the stuff you put up. And that sentence should not be read as a disclaimer prior to my deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep disagreement with you on this.
How did he bring it on himself? Seriously, what did he do? Why is his alleged steroids use different from anyone elses still playing in the game? Has he been convicted of anything? Is an unpleasant personality grounds for ILLEGAL behavior by baseball owners. What is happening right now is criminal. And the word “criminal” is not hyperbole. The owners are breaking the law and unlike collusion in the 1980’s, Bonds can never get rewarded later the way the likes of Jack Morris.
Should we cosign corporate crime just because we don’t like a player? What kind of precedent is that?
August 9th, 2008 at 12:27 am
BTW, the picture doesn’t surprise me… I mean, doesn’t Philly treat its own stars that way???
August 9th, 2008 at 12:32 am
MODI- Lets agreeeeeeeee to disagree!!! Be peace kids, Im out numbered here and gracefully bow out.
August 9th, 2008 at 12:50 am
BTW MODI- digging your site as well.
August 9th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Maybe Bonds will play next season, if the Yankees don’t shock the world and sign him this year?
August 9th, 2008 at 2:25 am
In my own fantasy world, I’m hoping the Red Sox sign him just to spite the Yankees. Barry could easily help a team in the playoff run. But what GM wants to take on that heat?
August 9th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Brothers can’t catch a break!
August 9th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Seriously. Someone couldn’t pick up a bat for the stretch run? Some teams are understandably too new for drama (Rays), but others, like the Mets, Yanks, LA, etc. have no excuses. Are you telling me Bonds is that much worse than Manny? Manny cost prospects, Barry costs minimum pay. They both aren’t the greatest in the field. And you know with the Favre thing and the Olympics the Dodgers could have slid Bonds news right under the table.
No excuses. That man is a first ballot HoF’er with or without PEDs.
August 9th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Bonds doesn’t deserve this. He is THE best baseball player ever, period. I was a huge Giants fan. Now I have no interest in baseball and that’s really sad. I used to listen to sports radio in the morning hoping to catch a highlight from last nights game or hear a prediction for when he’d hit the next one. I’d listen to the games on the radio when I couldn’t watch on TV or be there at the game. I used to care and now I can’t even sit through one inning. I just came across pictures of myself and my girl Delinda having the time of our lives on opening day and it breaks my heart. I don’t share her opinion but I do understand where she’s coming from. I don’t think it’s the fact that HE did steroids, but more about the cover-ups and lies surrounding steroid use in MLB. Yes he was arrogant. Yes maybe he wasn’t up front about everything. I don’t care. I enjoyed every arrogant smart-ass thing he said and did. He entertained me like no other sports player ever will again. Then, just like that, he disappeared from baseball, no trace of him at A&TT Park. All of his accomplishments discarded as ill-begotten goods. What a crime. If Barry was the only player to use the stuff then maybe I could understand the backlash. As it stands with what we all know, I do not. He is still better than any other juiced up pock-marked red haired a-hole and we all know it. I HOPE the Yankees sign him so I can love my favorite sport again. Peace. D2
August 9th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
You know, I sincerely wish people would get off the whole fucking self-righteous bullshit -Bonds did steroids- bullshit!
These feces are spewed in a nation where alcohol kills more people than any other “enhancements.” When the Marlboro man’s image is still etched in the sub-conscious minds of schoolyard kids, when taking birth control pills to kill natures job of populating the planet or take Viagra to enhance your flagging bats. When we take an aspirin for something that is usually caused by stress, constipation or bad diet, in fact taking fucking pills to lose all that adipose tissues, it is insanely hypocritical, mother fucking racist and out and out idiotic to keep saying Barry Bonds “juiced’, without any empirical evidence. EMPERICAL! I say. Which means that if you’ all never saw him, never heard from some one who say or inject or gave him steroids The same people who claimed that possessing or distributing steroids is a crime are the same cocksuckers who would support my being busted for an ounce of weed, while they continue kiddie porn surfing, with one hand, while puffing on a cigarette, crack pipe or knocking back shit that destroys your liver rapidly.
Steroids doesn’t (a) kill you, (b) shrink your balls, (c) gives you back pimples or (d) enrages you to do violence. No! (a) Bad diet, stress or other shit that compromise you immune system does. (b) Age, the reduction of steroid production and lack of use (or A for that matter) does. (c) See A or drugs from street or medical pushers. And (d) again see a, bad parenting, bad upbringing or general ignant sociopathic behaviour and attitude does.
Before I get of my damn soapbox, people tell me you all! How do you define a MAN! We must meditate because there are three sources in defining a man on that question. A woman’s definition, a man’s definition and nature’s nurturing.
…oh! and by the way! Bonds is a acrificial lamb for the knee-grow population to understand that the “higher, the monkey climbs, the more his ass is exposed!”
August 10th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Delindo-my point is I don’t think Barry’s shirked a lot of the expectations a double-standard holding media has held. Yeah, he ain’t come out and said “yeah, I did some steroids” but he’s put up with way more than a lot of these cats and seems he’s been very forthcoming, by-and-large.
August 10th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Sankofa couldn’t agree more. I won’t even get on this subject brothas and sistas. I’m still hot about it and talked about this last month with the other piece. I don’t know if my blood pressure can take it. And I sure don’t want to give those dope dealers at merck and the rest any money for blood pressure pills. So I will let this one go.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:44 am
D2 whassup baby girl? Thanks for coming on. Hope you continue to check us out from time to time.
Thanks everyone…no matter what your opinion. O I must say to you and especially you because of your intelligence and consciousness, that we must follow through every emotion of this craziness until it pops. I will interview Barry Bonds one day. Trust me on that and when I do I want the soul of my brotha’s wind at my back.
I searched for hours until I found that picture. I have some more of my own from that very same day that I’m trying to get from an ex. It seemed like this one cat specifically found my camera’s eye. I was supposed to be at that game and even taped the boos when his name was announced and also the two faced cheers as he rounded the bases after the one before Babe upper deck blast.
My ex and I tried to figure out where he was going to hit that bomb that day and we ironically changed our tickets from the very section where the ball was hit. I wanted to catch that ball and speak to Barry TSF personal but not yet…
This shit is way deeper than normal thought and it definitely is an exercise we have to face so the future Barry Bonds won’t be in this same mufuckin place…
August 11th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Muy interesante:
Selig is aware of and ignores rise of steroids in baseball as early as 1993. No owners are ever called by feds and asked, while under the threat of perjury, about the knowledge of use, sale, distribution or impact of steroids. Feds know about McGwire as early as 1998. National media ignores story. Baseball blooms from a $1.2B national past time which was whithering from the Jordan-era NBA, the rapid fire growth of the NFL, NASCAR, and even wrestling into a $6B monster. And, after all that, there is one dude facing federal charges as the poster boy for excess.
Shit’s laughable. Agree to disagree - that’s cute. As if Bonds’ actual use of steroids is even material.