Comments on: A Year After Barry Bonds Became the Home Run King His Absence Begins to Sting

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By: TC

TC — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:58:21 +0000

I agree with Temple that Barry should tell the HOF to kiss his ass. It’s a disgrace how Barry has been treated. He’s absolutely the best player of the past 35 years. I don’t care whether he did some shit or not. It’s beyond a travesty. And it really is the silence of the play-by-play men, the prominent journalists like Bob Ryan, Gammons, Bill Plaschke, Mariotti, NYT reporters…whose silence is complicity with Bud Selig. People with consciences, 50 years from now, will look back, and wonder what confluence of factors prompted writers and the baseball execs to blackball Barry. The Rays….the Yanks….the BoSox…..the A’s, the White Sox, the Indians? No one could offer this astonishing player even a small contract? Barry ain’t playin’ for money. He doesn’t need that. The man wants to play. Anyway. Great piece as always man, and I think the fans spoke loud and clear during Barry’s appearance. I hope he appreciated the rousing applause. Yeah there’s ignorant white people who don’t appreciate the injustice and double-standard faced by Barry, but I do believe (as a white person) that the injustice here is so blatant that more and more people recognize it every day. And that applause was not empty. Hell, I think a lot of people at ballparks recognize that even if Barry had done a little steroids, even if he hadn’t, the man is still scary good. And have no doubt, you don’t boo a guy-as he would hear on the road-coz he’s a 0. You don’t boo guys you don’t respect; at least I don’t. Those boos come from jealousy. Yeah, I think it’d be sweet if Barry stiff-armed the HOF.

By: Temple3

Temple3 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:36:10 +0000

DRS #1 Bob Costas (Dirty Rotten Scoundrel) is really a piece of work. It’s guys like him, Peter Gammons, Rob Neyer and the like who undermine the attempts at integrity that baseball perpetrates. Frankly, this sport is simply a joke. The game is routinely manipulated in order to produce desired outcomes: lowering the mound, narrowing the strike zone, changing stadium dimensions, and on and on. Baseball is a historic hodge podge of bullshit. And I don’t actually mean the “game” itself – as its played on sandlots around the world — I mean the MLB manifestation of the game.

This MLB brand has ALWAYS been a bunch of bullshit…hot, shiny bullshit, but a stinker nonetheless. I didn’t see it as a child, but the blinders are off. That’s why I always said Barry should have told the HOF to kiss his ass. I understand that the HOF and MLB are distinct entities, but the connection is so close that support for one entails support of the other. If EVERY team can close their doors as one and preclude Bonds from playing, he has a perfect obligation to retain ALL achievements for his personal collection.

By: MODI

MODI — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:45:59 +0000

firstly, great piece mizzo on multiple levels.

I really share the sentiments here. IMO this is the third greatest travesty in the history of the sport. First is obviously segregation. second is the blackballing of Curt Flood and third is this (but arguably 2nd). Flood and Bonds is far worse than the Black Sox scandal because it isn’t hidden.

What makes it so unconscionable is that it is in broad daylight and the mainstream media is silent. And NO SPORT has more tight ass media members than baseball who pride themselves on protecting the “integrity of the game. I mean even the writers that HATE Bonds need to stand up and say this is fucked up and call out the collusion?

Where is Mr. Baseball conscience Bob Costas who barely gives barry a blip on his Baseball HBO special this past month? This shit is every bit a media collusion as it is an owner collusion. And media are supposed to be watchdogs…

Honestly, there are a million issues that make me mad… but few that me me sick… this Bonds shit is one of them

By: Miranda

Miranda — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:32:19 +0000

The fans gave him a rousing, thunderous applause….but I thought it was the “fans” who needed to be protected from big bad black Barry? Maybe the Giants fans didn’t get the memo.

By: Matthew Fudge

Matthew Fudge — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:16:17 +0000

Sure, it’s criminal. But people can’t handle the truth. I’d love it if Bud came out and said, “Hell yeah, we all looked the other way, me included. After the ’94 strike, something had to get the sheep, I mean fans back. Sentiment doesn’t pay the bills, money does. More fannies in seats means more money in pockets. Grow up.”

By: ronglover

ronglover — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:54:37 +0000

I was glad to see that he showed up yesterday.

I hate to keep overstating this, what was once shameful becomes more an more criminal as each day passes.