Mike Schmidt's observations on barry bonds

barry bonds. I refuse to capitalize his name. If you're a bonds fan, delete this email, or move on if you surfed here. You ain't gonna like what i have to say.

barry bonds broke into the major leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates way back in 1986. He graced the Pirates fans for seven years before the underfunded club could no longer afford his services. bonds signed as a free agent for San Francisco in 1993.

Now you bonds lovers (and there is no middle ground with this athlete. You're either on one side of the fence, or the other) will ignore the cold-hearted arrogance of this person. He shuns the media, therefore his apologists point to reports of his attempted intimidation of sportswriters and his accusations of other team members' slipping of drugs into his system as revenge by the shunned. Whatever.

“Ubiquitous San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, already under investigation for, well, just about everything he does, failed a drug test in 2006. Major League Baseball won't identify the drug, but "sources" classify it as a "serious stimulant." Bonds blames the test result on teammate Mark Sweeney, saying he got the substance from Sweeney's locker.” Sports Illustrated, Jan. 11, 2007

Here's the deal: Pete Rose, who holds the all-time hit record, is banned from baseball. Perhaps some future commissioner (if that pathetic puppet leader position continues) will grant him amnesty in his old age, but it doesn't look promising. His crime? Betting on his team to win. It didn't help his belting out 4,256 hits one iota. That record stands as a result of his true athletic prowess.

Rose, who was also a jerk deluxe in real life a la bonds, suffers as he is permanently, or so it seems, banned from the Hall of Fame, where he would be a first year electee under any other circumstances.

bonds, who admitted to steroid use under oath, and who also tested positive for amphetamines (but he got them out of a teammate's locker, remember?), has received NO SANCTIONS WHATSOEVER FROM MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.

And, as long as spineless milktoasts like Bud Selig are in charge, he never will.

bonds is about to pass gentleman Henry Aaron for baseball's all-time home run record. Aaron, who had to deal with death threats from racist loonies when he neared Babe Ruth's 714 home run record, was no stranger to prejudice. bonds' home run chase has been parlayed into such by a few dipwad journalists, who claim that being for him or against him depends on race.

The fact is that Aaron earned his record. bonds bought his with drugs. He went from a high of 49 home runs to 73 in one year. Since then, “injuries” have kept him from approaching those numbers.

Today's FamilyFirst site is a commentary by Mike Schmidt (another athlete I don't care for), who makes the case that bonds would have to hit 900 home runs to actually surpass Hammerin' Hank's accomplishment.

For perhaps the first time, we agree.

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