Barry Bonds Speaks - Does Anybody Care?
Oh boo hoo, cry me a river, Barry!
Barry Bonds, the poster child for steroid use - oh, wait,
alleged steroid use - has announced he's going to boycott the Baseball
Hall of Fame in Cooperstown if they display the "asterisk" ball. In a major assumption, he includes his
potential induction into the Hall of Fame.
"I won't go. I won't be part of it," Bonds said
in an interview with MSNBC on Thursday night. "You can call me,
but I won't be there." Like anybody
REALLY cares you big loser!
After fan voting on a Web site set up by the ball's
purchaser, fashion designer Marc Ecko, was tallied the decision was to send the
ball to Cooperstown branded with an asterisk.
Bonds of course denied knowingly using performance enhancing drugs and called Ecko "an
idiot."
How does Dale Petroskey, Hall of Fame president feel
about it? "It's a historic piece of
baseball history" and that the museum would be "delighted" to have the
ball. He also said that accepting it
doesn't mean the museum has the viewpoint that Bonds actually used illegal
substances. Can museums have viewpoints?
Of course, Bonds did leave himself an out. "That's my emotions now. That's how I
feel now. When I decide to retire five years from now, we'll see where they are
at that moment," he added. "We'll see where they are at that time,
and maybe I'll reconsider. But it's their position and where their position
will be will be the determination of what my decision will be at that
time." Que sera, sera...whatever will
be, will be...
The future may not be ours to see, but what is clear is that
unless Bonds retires NOW, he will not retire as a Giant. Giants' general manager Brian Sabean said
again on Thursday that the team won't bring Bonds back next season. Bonds selfish goal is not to help another
team next year. No, he's only considering
the fact that he really hoped to reach 764 homers because he was born in July,
1964.
"I may hit two home runs so I can go home. I just
think that I have a lot of game left. I think that I can help a team with a
championship," Bonds said. "I'm a hell of a part-time player,
too." Reminds me of another
arrogant baseball player named Sammy Sosa.
With guys like this, it's always about the "me".
Must go along with the idea that while there's no "I" in
team, there is a "me."
Don't go away mad, Barry.
Just go away!