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Bye, Bye Barry, but What About MLB's Addiction?

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by Mlnsports

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Barry Bonds is on his way into the O.J. Simpson Hall of Infamy, but was he really the problem, or just a symptom of a system that is addicted to television revenue and will do just about anything to get a fix?

The MLB is sick, very sick, and it is jonesing big-time for a few real super-stars in that large pack of under-performing multi-millionaires.

It may be fun to rag on A-Rod, and maybe even shake your head at the fact that Scott Boras has the nerve to want to charge about $1.1 million per home run year, but nothing replaces quality on the field. The high-energy, dynamic game of baseball still exists, but you have to visit Pawtucket or Sacramento to see it played like that day-in and day-out.

The MLB got hooked on big name, big dollar players like Bonds, and has turned a very large blind eye to what they do to maintain that super-star caliber of play. Can MLB do something about kicking its drug habit?

I wrote a piece on my blog over at the MAJOR BLOGS of Minor League News about how they could do just that. (Oh, and Ty, It's free... ;) )


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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
725 days ago
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Then why not just post it here?

How desperate are you to get browsers to click over to your website anyways?

You would get a lot further if you just posted an article in its entirety and then invited members here to check out the rest of your blog.

But yeah, I know - blah, blah, blah, gotta make a buck off everyone else, blah, blah, blah.

And by the way, as much as I despise Bonds, he is NOT in the same category as O.J. Simpson. If that seems confusing to you, I suggest you talk to the Goldmans.
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MlnsportsVarsity Captain
724 days ago
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As to the OJ comment, see below. Why not post our full articles here? Most of the sports social search engines have some way to promote news items of interest. Here, this is more of a problem. You want to help them design a way to show off news like they do at Ballhype or FanNation? Go for it. Then I will be delighted to move all of the SPAM you keep crabbing about elsewhere. Until then, my staff and I have been putting in good hours here to build up the minor league sections of armchairgm. We have a lot of information that sports fans generally never see. We pay writers, photographers, illustrators and graphic designers for their work. I'm more than happy to summarize it here, but if we put our full content out into free services to keep cranky guys like you happy, we would have to close our doors. No one is particularly desperate. If you bothered to look around you, there are about 15 social search engines that cover sports to one degree or another. Reaching out to content is one value-add that they have. This is a very cool site. We do not intend to disrespect it. My team puts in a lot of hours trying to help build the minor league side of the encyclopedia here. We put some original content into the comments on the articles that we reference.

There are a couple of people on this board that tell me you're a good guy. Be a good guy and find something more positive to do with your life than sit out here in cyberspace and rank on people trying to do an honest thing and inform people about a part of the sports world they don't hear much from in the media.

GET A LIFE.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
725 days ago
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Barry is like OJ? How many bodybags has Barold Lamar Bonds filled? He might be like OJ one day, but I think he'll fill his own bodybag first.
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MlnsportsVarsity Captain
724 days ago
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Degree of crime is different true, but they're both sociopaths, and they both are in a huge level of denial that whatever they do could be wrong. They both act without thinking about the consequences to themselves or others, and they have no regard for the damage that their personal actions have for the sport. That was where the remark was coming from.
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