The Downfall of Barry Bonds

It likely comes as no surprise but a new book appears to document Barry Bonds' use of steroids to accomplish his recent baseball feats -- including 73 home runs, eclipsing Mark McGuire's equally suspect 70 home runs. As an avid Giants fan who has a Barry Bonds bobble head doll on his desk, I will be expected to defend him. I must confess my conflicted soul! I can't excuse him and yet I must. I must find a way to excuse his petty chase of glory, his hubris at thinking he could get away with it, I must point fingers towards others -- they did it, why make Barry the scape goat. Of course, Barry isn't a friendly kind of guy. He's surly and self-centered. McGuire is nicer and he's also white. So, we'll wade through the season, wondering if Barry can pass first the Babe and then Hank. I doubt he passes Hank. Of course the point of all this is this -- with our consumer driven society -- we want to see big scores and big hits. Ichiro doesn't get the same attention as McGuire or Bonds because he hits singles not home runs. We got what we paid for and now we want to call for a pure game (as if that ever did exist -- I mean the Babe, Cobb, were not saints). Let's hear it for Shoeless Joe!

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