Dave -- Norm Cash later admitted he used a corked bat in his great 1961 year. See Wikipedia and many other sources.

This whole mess is going to come to a big head (no pun) when Barry is eligible for the HOF in five years. What do you expect from a sport that enshrines Bowie Kuhn and ignores Marvin Miller?

Mr. Zirin,
My initial thought about the Bonds case was that no team would want to pay the grand theft money that Bonds would demand for a part-tme player. He said that he would like to go to the American League as a "designated hitter."

Another aspect of the case is that, even though he's one of the greatest players in the game, he's a schmuck in the clubhouse, and a pain in the ass personally. If he was 10 years younger, they would put up with him, as they did before.

Even though I at first thought the collusion grievance that the Baseball Players union is filing is b.s., as a union activist, I now believe the grievance is legitimate.

What relief is the grievance seeking? For Bonds to be hired by a team? If they don't want him now, will they want him more after the grievance is settled?

Thank you for your good work. I enjoy reading you very much.

Hank Silver
Berkeley, CA

Cash corked his bat? Why aren't his records expunged? Why hasn't he been hung from the highest tree? I thought cheating began in the 1990s!

I don't give baseball 2 minutes of attention, and haven't for years. I read Dave's articles because he speaks the truth and brings consciousness to the relationship between sports and the larger society.

Bond's expurgation from the annals of baseball lore is just another example of how the powerful write their own history. Read Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States for an alternative to what the white establishment wants us to know. And, I am white, so it is not sour grapes on my part.

Thanks, Dave, for shining a light on the darkness of our times.

I am committed to Oneness through Justice and Transformation

peace,
st john

It all sounds like a conspiracy of silence, but people actually have talked about Bonds and when he will likely appear in the major leagues. If you take a step back, it's pretty obvious that it made no sense to have him around in spring training--Bonds would have consumed the greater part of some organization's time while they were preparing for the season, and maybe people have forgotten that Bonds is actually awaiting a trial, which could be a major disruption.

I think Bonds will help someone in the second half of the season, when his ability to help a contender will outweigh the seriously large amount of baggage he brings. If Bonds is signed for a 3-4 month period, his commitments to appear before the courts will be better known.

I won't deny that collusion is a possibility, though. Major league sports in North America are run like intramurals and are essentially a party for a select few who can run their affairs with near impunity, and that is a far bigger story, and essentially undiscussed, story than what is happening to Barry Bonds, a man who really does not need to find work.

Take it from one who is a radio show host at a low powered college radio station of "the 9/11 Truth Hour". I understand all too well how it feels yelling truth into a tidal wave of name calling, filthy lies and a killing of the messenger. Once in awhile I change topics and read an important article on my show. So Keene, NH will get a dose of truth concerning Barry Bonds, courtesy of one of my favorite writers: Dave Zirin. Anyone interested can hear it live online at wknh.org (Fri 5/16 at 6pm). Forever in pursuit of any and all truths no matter how others perceive us,
Mike Casner

As long as we're on the subject, I've been reading "The Echoing Green," an account of the famous Bobby Thomson homer of 1951. Turns out they cheated, stealing the catcher's signals with a telescope and relaying them to the batter.

Plus ca change....

I really miss checking in the morning (or staying up all night to get it live on the internet -- I'm in Europe) to see how many times Bonds walked, or it he hit another homer, and I'm sure there are millions more fans like me.

But what I don't get is what do the owners have to gain from blacklisting him -- does his absence make the game seem any cleaner? The steroid story is all about greed (on all levels) and human frailty -- but it doesn't diminish the joy of watching baseball

I agree the Bonds is the greatest player ever, whatever he did or did not take (as the great Hank Aaron took greenies). I miss him too. He certainly could be helping an American League team. I think he has been singled out, unlike the many others still playing who are steroid suspect , e.g. Tejada. As a long-time baseball fan, I rarely care to check the box scores anymore since Bonds' banishment.

Dave, thanks for another great article. I hope Bonds wins the collusion case, because it would be just what MLB deserves for its arrogance, smugness, self-righteousness, disingenuousness, ... and for thinking that we're all stupid.

Tying MLB to Stalin is great analogy. There is nothing more Communist than professional sports. Not only do the owners decide "who gets to take the field, who gets to be heard, and even who gets to be remembered", they also decide who gets to own a team and where that team can play. On top of that, the value of their franchise is subsidized by tax payers. They can set higher prices while putting out a losing product. So much for real free market competition and baseball is supposed to define America.

Regarding the comments above----

(“There is a certain irony here as Bonds was hardly Big Bill Haywood during his career. In 2003, he became the first player in thirty years to not sign the Player's Association's group licensing agreement.”)

and

"Bonds deserves far better than to be forced into retirement and have his history coarsely expunged."

A bigger question is---Barring any collusion among Selig and the owners and if players could vote guys on and off of a team.....Is there one team whose players would vote to have Bonds join their team? What team has a majority of players who would want Bonds as a "teammate?"

In '03, Bonds made a choice to set himself apart (and way above) every current and former ballplayer. Forget any possible collusion among Selig and the owners ---You can't get on a MLB field without "TEAMMATES." You cannot play the game yourself. If Bonds is being mistreated by anyone, why don't his ex-teammates come to his support?

My guess is that if the players on each team voted on having him or not, he could not find a job.

My ex-"teammates", George B and Frank W have bronze statues outside of Royals Stadium. Although the Royals could use some offense from somewhere, the statues would probably wobble some if Bonds wore a Royals uni…

The statement above ---("There is a certain irony here....) that is hidden in brackets should have been put in bold letters.

How about an article titled, “How to Burn Bridges with your "teammates” on your way to the top?

A last thought--If Bonds were to come back it would be as an AL DH. He wants to be on a Series winner so there is no team in the AL that fits his "biggest desire". Of the handful of AL teams that can go to the WS, he would not fit in.

If that is the case, what is his reason for wanting to continue playing? To help the Royals and the other no-chance teams get into a playoff postion? Gimme a break.

Bonds should retire gracefully while he still has more "face" than Clemens..

There are a lot of players of whom their teammates might not want them on their team (Jeff Kent comes immediately to mind) . . . why does this matter? Players don't run teams . . . players that want to win would want BLB on their team.

By the way, firejoemorgan's undressing of St. Louis writer Jeff Gordon on this topic last week was great.

Unlike Bonds, Nader is not suspected of committing any crime, although his detractors (political bigots) would like us to think he is.

No, Nader did not cause Al Gore, who ran as a saber-rattling neoliberal hawk in 2000, to lose. If you doubt this, ask Gore, who now admits that his election was stolen (eight years too late).

Nader and Bonds are the best at what they do, but both are being deleted from those fora that should be arguing for their inclusion.

I enjoyed reading the Dave Zirin article and ALL of the comments. To me, I agree with the guy who hasn't paid a bit of attention to Baseball for years and years, except that I DID pay attention to the home run efforts of Barry Bonds. I don't think about baseball now. I guess that's sort of the way it goes, but as a kid I used to love watching major league baseball.

I really don't understand why people, including Bonds didn't expect this to happen...this is the legacy of major league baseball...this is a pattern that has been a part of this corrupt, racist institution since it's beginning...Bonds, notwithstanding.

The fact that baseball would not accept any responsibility in the matter of steroids/hgh usage in baseball, when it was clear from the commish's office all the way down the line, including the owners...and for them to not come out with a statement stating that this has been a difficult and unfortunate period for MLB and we are going to put it all behinds and move on, by starting everyone off with a clean slate from this moment on...as opposed to going along with the investigation which came up with a list, which allows MLB to play the "gotcha" game and transfer all the blame to these players.

Steroid and HGH users saved MLB and lined the owners pockets, when by rights half of the teams should have gone broke....

The hell with baseball....

Dorsey

If anyone is Trotsky it's Jose Canseco.

"is a violation of Bonds' rights and the unwritten social contract they have with fans."

Anything in that contract about steroids?

Just ditto for me on that post.

I do have to point out that the "purging" of Bonds from the Giants' ballpark is yet another media exaggeration. An SF Chronicle reporter toured the park before the season and didn't see any of the old Bonds stuff, and concluded that Magowan was trying to pretend Barry'd never been there. 'Tain't so. I was there on opening night, and there's a Bonds 762 plaque in center field, and a home run counter with Bonds, Aaron & Ruth and their numbers. Outside the park all the sidewalk plaques honoring Bonds's milestones are still there. The big banners are gone, the home run heroes are off the left field fence, but those would be a little awkward, considering that Barry's gone, and might be playing for someone else this season. I'd expect that once he's officially retired, there will probably be a statue outside the park, along with Mays and Marichal.

The Simmons quote is nonsense - I've had a bunch of those conversations - had one this morning right before I read this, in fact. How could anyone really not notice that Bonds isn't playing? I reckon Simmons only talks to the rest of the ESPN crew. It's ESPN and SI that wanted him gone, not the fans or players.

I do have the distinct feeling, though, that Barry is Bud Selig's biggest nightmare. He'd love to have Bonds dragged away in chains so he could stand up and say that all the game's problems are over (saved by the grand commissioner, of course!). Instead, his appointed villain refuses to shut up and go away, and the house of cards the commish constructed has been crumbling from a bunch of unexpected angles. Just imagine how Selig would feel if Barry not only came back and continued to put up spectacular numbers, but was found innocent of perjury, and let off the hook for PEDs! The only way to avoid that is by making clear that no team should touch him.

Of course Bud would never do such a thing - he's just standing there with his hands in his pockets. . . .

Does it always have to be a conspiracy? Could it just be that nobody wants this guy around? I lived in the Bay Area for years and watched this guy play. He is a "clubhouse cancer", that's no bull. The Giants were generally a fractious bunch beneath the surface, with a lot of resentments at the way Bonds handled himself both on the field and off. He's not a team player, can't field, demands special treatment for himself and his entourage, shows up opposing pitchers each time he flings his bat after a home run (and yes, that is an issue around the league), and he costs way too much for his ever more limited production. Oh yeah, and there's the stigma of steroids that will linger with him forever. He was safe in that happy little bubble called San Francisco. Take him out of that and put him on another team, he won't be nearly the box office draw.

Do I think Bonds has been unfairly singled out for the steroids allegations (among other legal battles, past, present and pending)? Maybe, but then again, I think Bonds has nobody to blame but himself for that. Bonds invited the attention as much as he seemingly despised it. Here's a guy for whom being a first-ballot Hall of Famer wasn't good enough. Can you imagine that? He had to juice up and get himself the sexiest record in sports. Do I have a problem with him being singled out? No. He was the first to do it.

Now he's nothing more than an albatross to any team that would sign him. I don't think it's collusion. I can't think of a good enough reason why anyone would want this guy and all the baggage that comes with him. Good riddens...

I think about Barry everyday, the same with Sammy Sosa. I would love to have them hitting 3 and 4 in the Royals lineup.

We have to remember there have been other "cancers" in the clubhouse. Clemens' yearly dance with retirement was surely tiring to his teammates. Ozzie Guillen leaves sex dolls in the clubhouse and tears down the fans of Chicago. And the worst cancer: the former owner of my team, one G. W. Bush. I'd love to have Bonds hitting DH for the Rangers. Wish he could pitch, too. He may be out for himself, but he's not making a killing off of people's tax dollars and flipping that into the imperial presidency.

My theory is this: Bonds is only a few hits away from the magic 3,000 hit mark. No player who has reached that milestone, has been denied entry into the HOF.

Sports writers won't vote for him, because of the "steroid issue." However, they would almost have to vote for him if he got 3,000 hits.

If he can't play, he can't hit.

Hank says,
"he's a schmuck in the clubhouse, and a pain in the ass personally. If he was 10 years younger, they would put up with him, as they did before."

-This is just stupid pontificating by Joe Public tuned into ESPN etc. Exactly how do you know this? Are you in the clubhouse? A player? A ball boy? Back scratcher? Jock washer?
You realize you're basically speaking for his teamates when you probably have no knowledge of his former team dynamics.
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Right now the Cubs are looking at Jim Edmonds if that isn't a sign that Bonds is black balled I don't know what is.

Dave great article as usual touching on important issues many ignore.

Joe Stalin played a very small part, if any, in overthrowing the democratic Kerensky government in Russia. But once he got into power, he killed nearly every one of the goddamn Commie Bolshevik bastards who DID overthrow Kerensky and murder the Tsar. For that, Stalin deserves to be remembered as a great man.

If you think Barry has gotten a bad rap from MLB Think Curt Flood!!!! This man has been buried by MLB. He was the first player to challenge the reserve clause (not a good thing for a Black Man to do in his time). Every baseball player should hold Curt in the highest regard. He started pushing the door open for better salaries. Players today would not be making the monies they make if it had not been for Curt Flood. He sacrificed his career so that other players would flourish and they get paid. Barry is getting the Curt Flood treatment no doubt about it. When they talk about home runs they will talk about Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron but you will not hear any reference to Barry.

I can't believe Jim Edmonds draws any kind of comparison to Barry Bonds. (And I despise Barry Bonds.) The Cubs are considering Jim Edmonds for two reasons: A) They're the Cubs, and B) he won't command half the salary that Bonds will demand.

And to the 3000 hits guy, you mean Bonds doesn't have enough credentials numbers-wise to warrant a Hall of Fame ticket? All-time HR, 500-500 - cross that, 700-500 - gaudy walks, runs, RBI, slugging pct., etc., but it takes the 3000th hit to push him over the threshold? If he doesn't get in, it won't be because he didn't get enough hits.

How do any of you know he's been blackballed? If some team offered him fair market value, he wouldn't warrant $10 million a year. Do any of you think Bonds would play for under $15 million? Do any of you think he would broadcast an offer he considered a lowball?

Regardless of any answer to the above questions/suggestions, it doesn't change the fact that the man is a walking douche.

Cameron well put "they're the Cubs" .....well thought out and reasoned. Either you're southside white trash or one of the 'children of the corn' down in southern Illinois and a Card fan.

-no kidding he won't command a salary the bum was cut by San Diego, he's being paid lunch lady salary. But since when are the Cubs shy about spending?

I don't want to see Edmond's old bionic shoulder anywhere near Wrigley, and for that matter Barry either. But if I had to choose btw the two, even though the Cubs need a center fielder it'd be Barry all day.

-If some team offered Barry a contract it wouldn't be in secret...you actually think that wouldn't get out through some leak? The dam whitehouse can't keep secrets but MLB teams making offers to Bonds can? Ha GTFOH.

Thank you Dave Zirin for this piece. I was waiting for it, almost hoping it would be a little bit more biting....or cutting. Call it what it is......racism. And this all has to do with Bonds having the all time hitting title, which will be purged through all of this.

I'm not a fan of the USA Today. I call it the USA propaganda sheet. Available for free in every (almost) hotel in the country----to keep us all on the same page--so to speak--I say. Anyway, the NBA playoffs are in full swing and where do I have to go to read about it in the sports section of that paper??? Page 7 or 8!!! What is on the front page?? Baseball. Why??? Do I have to spell it out for you?? Look at the owners. Look at the managers. Look at the teams. Look at the audiences. Not the fans, the audience, the ones that can afford tickets. There is your answer. Now, to semi-steal a line from Matthew McConaugheys (spell) character in the movie, can't think of the title this moment..........imagine if Bonds was white.

I'm a Dodger fan. But I'm also a fan of justice. And such has not occurred for Barry Lamarr Bonds. It's amazing how such an abrasive character can become more sympatico simply by the unjust treatment at the hands of some insecure, small-dicked men. I wasn't much of a fan of Bonds...at least as a person. I always found him to be arrogant, surly, difficult. But over the last couple of years, as Bonds has been scapegoated-and has never refused to address the constant goading questions from corporate sports trainwreck-inducing-and-watching, media-Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire have been oh-so-surreptitiously been largely winked and nodded at by the corporate media while the corporate media has tutted and clicked its tongue occasionally, while never examining their shortcomings and misdeeds with the same intensity as it has harassed Barry.

Really, I didn't like Barry. I've been a Dodger fan 25 years and there's no team I dislike more than the Gnats. No player I dislike (just as a matter of course) as much as Barry. Of course this was/is largely for amusement but still, the fact that I can be convinced that this is an absolute witch-hunt for Barry is truly testament to the unhinged racism and corporate slavishness with which most of the corporate media work.

If it wasn't for Barry, that beautiful park in San Francisco would not be there. The suits did not get it built because people liked them. The stadium was built because of the all-time greatness of Barry Lamarr Bonds. Magowan and the ownership and leadership of the team was happy to ride Barry's broad shoulders to very nice profits in merchandising and luxury-suite sales. People talked about Barry's performance in the same way people would analyze Michael Jordan's performances ("Did you see that shot by Barry? How did he do that? OBP of .550....unbelievable"). And now he's persona non grata. I think you made a great analogy Dave. Magowan et al. took Barry throughout his tenure as the greatest hitter and never said a bad word about him. Indeed even last year, even when the press was bad about him, and Barry was finishing up his time with the Giants, not a peep about him publicly, although even then, the lack of recognition of what the man did was certainly an excellent example of foreshadowing. But you're absolutely right. He's been disappeared. A bit of cut and pasting; some fine Adobe Photoshop editing, some convenient exclusions by omission. Barry was never here. And again.....I was saying way back in about '02 that Clemens was juicing. I could never understand how a man getting that big that late in life didn't at least merit some discussion about such success. What's happened, and continues to happen, to Barry, is shameful.

I'm glad the Giants suck this year. I hope they suck forever for how they've treated this man.

Dave Z - always on point.
But I wonder if the Bonds story simply reflects a larger problem with corporate America in that collusion and monopoly remain the status quo. If Bonds played football 25 years ago he would have a job in the USFL for sure. Capitalism is an inherently inhumane economic system, but it would be a hell of a lot better than what we have now.
Mainstream media has made the observation that owners want Bonds to disappear but fail to explore what they gain by this: the sooner the steroids issue fades away, the less likely the owners are to be exposed in their own complicity. Exploit labor, make money, deny responsibility. Maybe the owners aren't that smart or that organized but ultimately we need to understand what cost would prevent all these teams from signing him. It all starts with asking the right questions.

I can't imagine this kind of discussion on Bonds or any other sports topic on any other website besides this one. Dave, who the hell are you getting to read about sports? or write about sports.

Hank Siliver- who are we to judge a player's beavior in the clubhouse and how do we know if he was a pain? were you there? Bonds is blacklisted because he wouldn't play the game with reporters and he criticized the Bush regime about Katrina. Shame on the Giants. i hope they finish worse than the Yankees

dave you are truly looking years ahead of the curb in terms of the effect Bonds has on a game. people take for granted the presence bonds would have in the batters box. Though as bonds' perjury case unfolds the unfolding story of roger clemens who's on field performance saw a rebirth that many fireballers havent been able to come back from due to the constant wear and tear of tendons during the act of throwing. But who knows maybe it was love that saved his career. Ultimately as these two stars believed to have taken steroids watch baseball from afar, all attention has gone to Clemens as opposed to Bonds. The thing is (looking at Bonds' situation with court, fans and media) I do not believe this to be a bad thing. I believe you will see Bonds signed by midseason which will allow Bonds to suit up ina major league stadium once again sometime after the allstar game. Although Bonds not playing opening day should be seen as an injustice, the silence is goldy for Bonds which is something that could only benefit the situation for his family. Since the attention of the media and others opinions about his character have never affected him yet, im curious to see what the next chapter for bonds is.

Thanks as usual Dave for validating my opinions I argue daily with my coworkers. It is frustrating to hear in my break room intelligent and compassionate people(teachers) spew the ignorance and rhetoric of espn. The most common excuse they give is the clubhouse thing in which I retort that the main incident between Bonds and a teammate was a fight with a lying idiot Jeff Kent. I also here the comment from an earlier poster about him being paid too much for a part time player. Is david Ortiz a part time player? Was edgar Martinez a part time player? Bonds could have put up 35 home runs an 90-100 rbi's as a dh in the right ballpark. Wake up baseball, erasing barry Bonds does not help the image of your game. Although dave touched on the role of ESPN, hey and other bigoted sports media, which seems to be most of sports media, is in an absolute horrid state right now. Barry has always been disliked by the media, even before the Balco stuff because he doesn't respect them. Guess what you arrogant fools, he has valid reasons to not respect you and your job as a journalist should be to ignore his personal feelings and do your job reporting sports in an unbiased manner. I have thought for a long time that pro sports leagues should find ways to distance themselves from ESPN which has become a tabloid news outlet in which the arrests of a handful of payers overshadow the on field and positive off field actions of the majority of pro athletes.

THAT IS THE REASON HE IS NOT BEING PERSUED BY ANY TEAMS. BONDS TOOK STEROIDS, YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT

When it comes to professional sports and race, white fans are like pre-speech toddlers attempting to deliver a lecture on physics. Dave Zirin, whom I don't always agree with, is one of the only non-Black sportswriters in this country who has a clue.

Professional sports is the national sociological paint canvas upon which racial-psychological politics are metaphorically drawn. Being on the outs in this society, Black folks see this clearly. White folks, rarely actually having to think about race, when called to speak on it, always astonish us with their arrogance but far more often with their extreme ignorance and foolish statements.

The Bonds debacle is all about race. To understand this you have to first understand something political. So if you don't have the patience to think about things, move along and keep being ignorant cuz you'll never understand the Barry Bonds saga if you don't get that this, the United States, is an empire. Like Rome and other empires before, we rule internationally with an unelected, authoritarian iron fist. Domestically, like Rome, we do a lot of jawwing about democracy. Of course the domestic population gets screwed just like the foreign black and brown and yellow people around the globe. In order to keep all of this moving, the US does what so-called democratic empires always do, it provides a circus to turn the population into spectators of spectacles while the rulers do the heavy lifting on stuff that actually matters in the real world (which is not sports). Because the US', as Rev Wright put it, birth defect of having been born enslaving a large sector of its working class, the US' circus of choice has always been race. Ostensibly the circus is the big pro sports. But actually, the circus is race.

The biggest pro sports in the US are football, basketball and baseball. The NFL and NBA are largely Black sports and thus tend to not be as reactionary as other sports dominated by whites because the Black population of the country is generally left wing while whites generally numerically are right wing in a political/ideological sense.

Black people dominate football and basketball overtly. Unlike the NFL and NBA, MLB is only 8% Black and thus it is the most reactionary of the big 3 major sports. Though Blacks aren't represented much in the composition of MLB, still the most coveted mark in all of baseball is held by a Black citizen. This presents a grand opportunity for the white power structure (and regardless of whether or not you believe it is a good thing or not, no one can deny that there is a white power structure; this is an observable fact. The MLB teams and corporations that provide ad revenue are owned almost 100 percent by white males. This is a fact, not opinion)...so the white power structure takes advantage of its largely white MLB audience to use baseball as a stage to play psych games with the minds of Americans as well as to do what circuses do--distract people. In our case, distractions are designed to keep us from paying attention to politics and the rest of real life.

A quick thought experiment makes this clear. Of course, thought experiments are only as effective as the mind of the person attempting to perform the experiment. And as I mentioned before regarding whites thoughts about race, not so impressive. But anyways, imagine if Barry Bonds was instead named Dale Murphy. Nothing and I mean nothing save him being caught in a photograph--no, a video--shaking hands--no, making a bomb--with Osama Bin Laden would keep him off a team or out of the HOF. White players in the big three pro sports are just about impenetrable when they are superstars. Even Clemens, who has far more evidence against him, isn't being handled the way that Bonds was/is handled. Bonds, who hasn't been convicted of anything and who wasn't even being investigated til it was simply decided that he would be. But the thought experiment. Imagine Dale Murphy had broken Hammerin Hank's record of long balls. The steroid thing would never have come up. Anyone who is honest knows that this is true. We would be discussing building Dale Murphy skyscrapers, naming ballparks after him and sending him around the world as a diplomat for world peace or something. When white players achieve the highest heights only convictions and getting caught red-handed will get them in hot water. And as evidenced by Pete Rose, even when caught red-handed, the punishment has temporal limitations. When Black players f/k up, they're done. They either go to prison never again to see any kind of contract or even positive publicity, or they are just erased from memory. There are more examples of this than I care to take time to cite. But just look at the behavior of a very white sports like tennis or cycling and the kid gloves deployed to respond to it.
Jenifer Capriati - was on crack but now hailed as comeback kid
Martina Hingis - also caught doing crack; gets to keep all her titles and no bad publicity circus
Lance Armstrong - lots of testimony from people close to him that he used cocaine cocktails and steroids to enhance his performance yet he still gets big endorsement deals and commentators ignore the same kind of hearsay they have virtually convicted Bonds with. Actually the Lance Armstrong hearsay they ignore is much worse than Bonds. But anyways. You get the picture, I hope.

The racial double standard in pro sports is undeniable by anyone that can put two brain cells together for a thought or two. But the Barry Bonds hearsay attack saga rolls on unabated. Meanwhile, over a million Iraqi kids are dead due to a military conflict ordered by white CEOs and their political representatives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Millions more suffer torture in US prison gulags for petty drug charges and tens of millions die slowly because white CEOs won't allow them or their kids to see a physician until it is too late to do much to help them. All these things happen day in, day out and the same whites that will spend all afternoon coming up with cute remarks to make about Barry Bonds' lack of a moral code ride around with facist yellow ribbons on their cars and trucks. Right underneath the "W" or "Kerry/Edwards" sticker. They worship those killers while taking a stand on Barry and his behavior in the clubhouse. You people aren't hypocrites. You all are psychopaths.

If there was a God (which there isn't) I wish she'd transform this country into something with humanity.

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