There is a new homerun king. Barry Bonds smacked #756 last night in San Francisco. Many purists are calling for an asterisk next to Bonds’ name in the record book because of alleged steroid use.
The baseball record book needs more than an asterisk. It needs a bright yellow line on July 2, 1992. That’s the date that Bud Selig wormed his way into the Baseball Commissioner’s office. It was Selig, baseball owners and managers who had no regard for Major League Baseball’s record book or the health of neither their players nor the sport. All they cared about were putting cheeks in the seats.
Homers were deemed the way to bring the fans back to baseball. So what to do? Juice the ball and the players, expand the league thereby diluting the pitching pool and let ‘em fly.
Then you act as if you had nothing to do with it when baseball’s, nay the sporting world’s most cherished record is broken by someone suspected of using performance enhancing drugs. Selig and baseball owner’s part in this is akin to the parents who watch while their son’s grades drop, he wrecks a series of cars, he staggers into the house late every night, leaves late for school everyday, looking like he just jumped off of a freight train and after months of this behavior, the parents act shocked when the boy is arrested at 2 am for buying drugs.
UPDATE: That is a bad analogy because as bad as the paerents appear in this case, they did not actually encourage the boy's behavior. Selig and the owners have.
2 comments:
Well I was rooting Barry on. Any Nascar fan that ever watched Dale Earnhart spin the competitors out of his way and still get the win,or saw a brown, spit covered baseball come out of a catchers mit and no ump to jump in, or saw an offensive lineman clip two defensive backs on the same play while the running back hits the end zone for 6 points with a no-call from the line judge, can stand up and say Barry cheated but guess what .. it still counts in the record books.
Congress has hundreds of laws against illegal immigration that are not enforced by choice. If I were a poor Mexican trying to better myself I would head to the U.S. So I want to hear the politicians stand up and say we need to have a congressional investigation into illegal steroid use in MLB. Oh yea...they did that.
Congrats to Barry. It is not cheating if you don't get caught. Disappointing? Yes. Role Model? No. Do I like him? No. Speaking of taxes...never mind.
it's Barry's record.
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