Oh Barry...

Barry Bonds talked to reporters today about, what else, steroids.

I know there will be a big backlash across Baseball, but Barry is a different issue.


Here are my issues with Barry...


He wants to prove once and for all that he is better than the Babe.

That ain't never going to freakin' happen, ever!

Barry, you wanker, go out and pitch a game then you can talk!

Get off the 'roids, and show up still a little drunk from last night or hung-over, then set a record! You will never be the inspiration to anyone like Bahb and the great Fu2rman in the way The Babe was.

Barry said today two things that should be mentioned.

He bashed reporters saying,

``You guys are like re-running stories,'' Bonds said to more than 100 reporters in attendance. ``This is old stuff. It's like watching 'Sanford and Son.' It's almost comical, basically. ... Are you guys jealous, upset, disappointed, what?''

He followed that with saying those same repeorters would be talking about protecting kids from this or that, next week, and we need to do this or that the next week, and so on.

Which is it?

Do reporters get stuck on one story, or do they bounce from one to the next from week to week?

Barry you're an idiot, but entertaining.

Yes!, like some clown, here for my amusement!

Bonds also mentioned that 'roids would have no affect on hand-eye coordination.

Good point!

I would say that too if I knowingly cheated.

But he is right.

It has nothing to do with his ability to hit a round ball with a round bat, but, he is going to be able to push a few long fly outs into homeruns.

Let's say out of 162 games per year, 4 at bats per game, 648 chances, it equalls 5-10 more homeruns all year.

1999 marks a significant fact.

From that year on, 1/3 or more of Barry's hits, were homeruns! Six years straight, I'll give you seeing the ball, but c'mon!

Let's say that the extra steroid power equalled 7 HR's a year, (we'll split the difference from 5-10 and that is already conservative).

In six seasons we're talking 42 HR's.

That is like taking away a whole season.

661 HR's going into the '05 season. Hank Aaron is at 755, The Babe is at 714. We wouldn't be talking about Bonds at this point being 53 HR's away from The Babe, with Barry turning 41 this year.

But Barry's cheating has him at 703 HR's, and unless his forehead finally overtakes the rest of his head and he can't find a helmet big enough to cover that dome, he's going to pass the Babe this year.

Lastly, this bugs me about Barry...

``Because Babe Ruth is one of the greatest baseball players ever, and Babe Ruth ain't black, either,'' he said. ``I'm black. Blacks, we go through a little more. ...

Yeah, like OJ, like Kobe, it's so hard to be a rich black athelete, I'll trade you the great life a regular white guy, if I can have for your burden!

Ummm, isn't the current HR leader, Mr. Henry Aaron a black man?

I know he went through some awful things, threats and what-not. That is just sad.

But times have changed since 1976.

Like the fact that Hank Aaron would not have cheated!

If Bonds had any integrity, he would never have done anything he knew was cheating.

Just like Sammy Sosa is a cheater with his corked bat!

Both should have their records and reputations stripped.

Let them hang out with Jose Canseco and Pete Rose...