You Ain't Got Nothing on Barry Bonds
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by user Wrightsmyboy
Barry Bonds has never failed a drug test. Despite all the rumors, suspicions, and what has become common knowledge to baseball fans that he was on steroids, the fact still remains Barry Bonds has never failed a drug test. When Barry Bonds was on the verge of breaking Mark McGwire single-season homerun record, which he did end up breaking everyone who wasn't a hater was excited. Then why now has most everyone become a Barry Bonds hater? The answer is there weren't too many people who weren't Barry Bonds haters to begin with.
Barry Bonds is the most feared player in the history of baseball. And for a while that was respected by writers, 7 MVP's tell you that. The reason they gave him the MVP's is because what he was doing was too great, it had never been seen in the history of baseball and like him or not, not respecting what he did would be disrespecting baseball. Barry Bonds should be the cover baseball even right now, he's still packs more fans than anyone else and he still makes the MLB more money than anyone yet the same people who he's making the money for continue to spit in his face. No matter what you say, do, or accuse him of, it won't change the fact the Barry Bonds is the greatest player in the history of baseball.
That being said, the better question is what has he done to change most people's minds? Has he publicly admitted to taking steroids? No. Has he done anything out of the ordinary to say he doesn't care? No. Has his personality and attitude towards the media changes at all since he's gotten to the major leagues? No. All that's happened is that it's come out that many ball players were taking steroids and he's been suspected. And now a popular knock on him is that he's an asshole, but they weren't saying that before, the press is looking for an excuse to put the name of Barry Bonds in vain any way they can.
And now let's get to the point that there is absolutely no proof whatsoever. What happened to our constitution us Americans boast about that makes us the greatest place in the World? It says pretty clearly there innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. So as far as the constitution goes he's innocent. As far as fair human reasoning based on it he's innocent. As far as the very values we base our everyday lives on Barry Bonds is an innocent man! Anyone can make a report saying he said he unknowingly used steroids to a grand jury, but there's no proof. Anyone can put anything in the paper to build any kind of case against him because there's no proof what they're saying is wrong. And just because there's been a media explosion ganging up on Barry Bonds fans have given into it, or used it as an excuse to anyway.
The media has found an opportunity to absolutely destroy Bonds just because of a suspicion, and they've taken it and taken advantage of it to convince the public. Why such hatred to a man that was once being praised. First off, Barry Bonds does not like the media and has not interacted well with the media throughout his entire career. So they're trying to back at him by making all the fans that once liked him to not like him anymore either.
Another reason, whether you'd like to admit it or not is racism. When you think about it only 40 years ago there were laws that showed blatant and utter racism against blacks and most people were just fine with it. And since the laws weren't put an end to until 1970, right now in America as it stands people 45 and older learned racism as a way of life. And at the point where you're almost 10 years and all you've known is racism you're entire life a couple of laws aren't going to change that. Most members of the press are over 45 years old so racism towards anyone shouldn't be a surprise. And the only reason they weren't challenging Bonds before like they are now is because it was impossible to challenge what he was doing and the chance really wasn't presented. So you can't tell me that racism is not a reason the media has been hating on Bonds and you can't tell you tell that those same people in the media don't influence the everyday fan's opinion on sports.
So now why don't you like me?
Answer him. After taking into consideration everything I said find one reason not to like Barry Bonds. It's not his attitude, it wasn't that before, there's no reason for it to be that now. Why? There's no proof he is or ever was on steroids, and if you follow the constitution by which you live by you can't hold paper thin accusations against him either. Being fair there's only two things you can think of with Barry Bonds. One, he's the most feared player to ever play the game, and two, he's never failed a drug test.
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Tue 06/06/06, 6:00 pm EST
