Barry Bonds Controversy
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by Smittylite
The Barry Bonds Controversy.
Sitting at just two long balls away from breaking the all time record, Barry Bonds has been mostly quiet as of late. I would guess most of this is due to what the steroids controversy has brought upon him in the last two years or so. While Barry pursues this record in almost solitude, the commissioner Bud Selig is keeping everyone on their toes with whether or not he will be on hand to watch the record be broken. Up to this week he has been rather evasive about whether or not he will attend, but this week has shown up at some of Barry’s games in Milwaukee and San Francisco.
While I think Selig has no intention of trumpeting Bond’s for this achievement when he does reach it, I also think he should be there as commissioner of the sport. It seems fairly obvious he wants nothing to do with Barry, but it is history after all. I’m also guessing that if Mr. Selig had his wish, Bonds will break the record while Selig is in Cooperstown this weekend and thus unable to attend. That way Selig can say he wanted to be there, and tried to be there, but couldn’t. It’s a win-win, in a way I guess.
As for Bonds, things don’t seem to be getting much better for him. This week the maker of an anabolic steroid called the Cream, Patrick Arnold, called out Bonds by name saying he was on ‘the program’, which was administered by BALCO founder Victor Conte. While Bonds has repeatedly denied knowingly taking steroids, the evidence against him isn’t exactly circumstantial.
Nevertheless Bonds will, sometime very soon, break the all time home run record and place his name atop one of the greatest records in modern sports history. And while you can argue it should come accompanied with an asterisk, it will not in official record books. The only solace we can take, as sports fans, is that Alex Rodriguez, who yesterday hit his 499 th career home run, will eventually pass Bonds and claim the record for himself. While not exactly Mr. Congeniality himself, at least A-Rod hasn’t been accused of using steroids to help him attain that record.
Originally posted at: http://valleysports.blogspot.com
