Let me make this clear: I don't like Barry Bonds. I believe he cheating the game of baseball and is poised to break Hank Aaron's record only because he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Making matters even worse, he doesn't speak to the media frequently, and is a jerk to people on and off the field. But if the guy supposedly got voted into the All-Star game by the fans, and if he's about to break the record without us being able to do anything about it, then the least he can do is put on a show for the fans at his home park.Yes, you hear me correctly. Barry Bonds owes it to the fans and to baseball to participate in the Home Run Derby at AT&T Park. He has no excuse not to. His team is terrible, and definitely out of the race. He's also at 751 meaning he's close enough to the record where even if he goes in a Bobby Abreu post-derby slump, he can still break the all-time record. He has admitted to taking flaxseed oil -- and based on Game of Shadows, he took performance-enhancers for himself -- to get better and compete with inferior players who had usurped his play on the field. It was not to make money or to entertain fans, it was to be better than everyone else.
So for once, Barry, I implore you, do what's right. Participate in the Home Run Derby. Your performance-enhancing substance displays of power on the field have no place in games that matter. In an exhibition designed solely for purposes of pure fan entertainment, they're perfect. We know you're going to break the record. The least you can do is go out with a bang, slugging in the derby in your home park. If you don't do it, you'll be proving once again to everyone out there that you're a jerk. You have no reason not to participate, so do what's right, and give the fans a thrill. It's the least you can do.
Previously at FanHouse:
Barry Bonds Voted in by Fans? Yeah Right
Barry Bonds Smacks Home Run No. 751
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
7-05-2007 @ 5:16PM
Chris said...
You have reached a new level of stupidity. You hate him, the fans hate him, he's a cheater, etc., but HE NOW OWES THEM SOMETHING? For getting heckled and hated upon everywhere he goes?
Your blogs are a moronic joke.
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7-05-2007 @ 5:22PM
Chris said...
You have reached a new level of stupidity. You hate him,the fans hate him, he's a cheater, etc., but HE NOW OWES THEM SOMETHING? For getting heckled and hated upon everywhere he goes?
You are ridiculing him for wanting to be better than everyone else!?
Your blogs are a moronic joke. F this site, I'm officially done.
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7-05-2007 @ 5:48PM
Larry Brown said...
You will be missed Almanorjoey, err Luke, I mean Chris.
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7-05-2007 @ 6:03PM
Chris said...
Uh, what does it matter if I post under two different names (my first and middle- I have no idea who "Almanorjoey" is)?
But regardless, way to avoid having to defend your brilliant blog buddy. Guess you are too busy drafting up the new one "barry cheats (i've never cheated) he sucks but he should do this and this and this and not be surly and be nice to the fans and the media even though they hate him and he cheats."
What you are asking him to do would be the equivalent of me asking you to do me, a person who thinks you suck and are talentless, a favor. Why should you? Why should he? So you and people with actual journalistic credentials can rip on him some more? "Oh, Barry took part in the home run contest and won because of the steroids! What a cheater!" Either way he loses. If you had a bit of common sense or weren't completely biased maybe you could see this...i.e., if you had what people actually want (insight and impartiality) you may not suck so much.
So easy to be a critic, especially a "blogger" that does no research. How about some actual insight? Oh, no, wait...that would require effort. Nevermind.
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7-05-2007 @ 6:06PM
early jones said...
THE mAN IS 42YRS. OLD. hE HAS NOTHING TO PROVE TO
ANYONE NOW! He has played great all his career and
to sit out for the HomeRun Derby does'nt make him
a loser to anyone. He'susing his head and saving
himself for the big game. That's what he owes!!!!
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7-05-2007 @ 6:12PM
Larry Brown said...
Nice to have you back Chris, Luke.
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7-05-2007 @ 6:15PM
Chris said...
Just trying to get an answer out of you before I go...though it appears hopeless to ask you to think or respond intelligently.
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7-05-2007 @ 6:22PM
The U is dead said...
Like Barry Bonds has every cared about anything but himself.......Be Real here,
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7-05-2007 @ 6:30PM
Larry Brown said...
Nice to have you back Chris, Luke.
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7-05-2007 @ 6:52PM
rank said...
They should just have Russell Martin do it. He's a much bigger star than Bonds anyway.
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7-05-2007 @ 7:30PM
The Roach said...
Barry Bonds is much more complex than all of you are making him out to be. This is a man who grew up amoungst some of the greatest players of all time. Most of them were black and Barry witnessed what he precieved as a bias against them. He has choosen to play the role of the villian with his career and this was done with logic. He uses the public outcrys as motivation. He wants you to tell him he is dumb, a cheater and a bad human. For you to say "dance monkey" is just proving what he has believed all along.
I met Barry several years before he broke the single season record while I was on vacation in Hawaii. He was there with his family (Bobby included) and I approached him while he was with his wife and kids playing at the pool. He talked to me and even signed an autograph. Several other people approached him after and he signed all of there autographs. He puts on an act for the media because he will never win with you. Even if you discount him because he used steriods, you should still acknowledge the fact that he put on the greatest show in baseball that anyone has ever seen. He will unite the single season record and the all-time record for the first time since the Babe. Funny how the Babe invented the corked bat. You may not like the man as a person, but for pure entertainment value history has never seen a Barry Bonds. Were lucky to have.
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7-05-2007 @ 8:37PM
Jay said...
Let me make it clear that I don't like the author of this article because he is a moron to the umpteenth degree. 1. Barry Bonds has never tested positive for steroids. 2. There is ZERO! proof that he ever took steroids. 3. Baseball had a chance to test for roids, they never did, so to go back and speculate now is BEYOND STUPID just like the blog author.
Barry will break the record and you can kiss his azz and lick his baseballs, just like your dad did when Hank Aaron broke it the first time. It's no coincidence that a generation later another black man is about to break the record and he's hated for whatever "reason".
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7-05-2007 @ 9:09PM
rob said...
he doesnt owe the fans anything he did his time and now the fans are turning on him if he doent do the hom run derby he shoulnt have to
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7-05-2007 @ 9:34PM
SportSnipe.com said...
It's time Barry does something to improve his image with baseball fans. He's about to break one of the most cherished MLB records and everything you hear is negative. I really don't see why he wouldn't hit in the derby and at least portray a positive image before the breaking the record. Seems like a dumb mistake.
http://www.sportsnipe.com
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7-05-2007 @ 10:51PM
mrmikebruins8 said...
bonds sucks hes a cheater
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7-05-2007 @ 10:53PM
mrmikebruins8 said...
if pete rose is out of baseball for cheating and hes still in then rose back in
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7-06-2007 @ 1:22AM
Brad said...
Snipe-
Even if you assume participating in the homerun derby would rehabilitate Barry's image (it wouldn't), that is completely different than Barry "owing" it to the fans.
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7-06-2007 @ 5:56PM
Tom Coleman said...
According to past rules, only the top five leaders at the All Star break are allowed to be in the Home Run Derby. Bonds is not within the top ten, so he doesn't deserve to be there.
The only reason he was voted onto the All Star team was a last minute voting rush which was paid for by Bonds and his people. It's sad how many people will spend hours casting phony votes for money. - No wonder Baseball is losing ground to Football and Basketball!!
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7-06-2007 @ 5:58PM
Jack Brady said...
BARRY BONDS...........ASTERISK
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7-06-2007 @ 6:02PM
Tom Coleman said...
Isn't it odd that Bonds can't catch up to a low outside fast ball now that he is off his undetectable drugs?
Anyone who would respect this lowlife (Bonds) needs to seek treatment as soon as possible. Baseball might have a chance to heal the wounds of the drug era once we don't have to look at "Mr. Asterisk's" ugly ass anymore.
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