Strange Places Strange Faces

Okay. This post will not be any fun for those of you who don't care about baseball. So, let me start here: Somebody bail Barry Bonds out of his fantasy world. When he hit his 715th home run today to pass Babe Ruth and become second on the all-time record list behind Hank Aaron, it personally made me sick. Let's be honest. Neither Ruth nor Aaron had "juice" (steroids) even available to them when they played. Neither had the technologies available to them today. Neither had to cheat to get ahead. Bonds is clearly a cheater. The Balco investigation, where his name has surfaced, will eventually provide more concrete evidence he was juiced for many of his 715 home runs. If you look at the shape of his body from his Pirate heydays to the shape of things now, there is clearly a difference. Now, granted, baseball has stiffened its penalties against users the last few years -- including random drug testing. However, that doesn't affect the fact that -- for quite some time -- Bonds was a user. In fact, the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, refused to recognize today as an historic event while banners unfurled and celebrations flared up in Bonds' home park in San Francisco where he hit the behemoth blast. Who knows if he can hang on to eclipse Aarons' record of 755? But, I do know this. We should all be bailed out of this Bonds charade. As my parents always taught me, cheaters never prosper.

Posted by Ike on Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 11:52 PM | Permalink