No sympathy for Bonds

Barry Bonds press conference a few weeks ago should not bring tears to anyone's eyes and this is a man who is getting exactly what he deserves.  During the press conference, Bonds with his teenage son at his side was practically in tears claiming that the "media attacks" have finally brought him and his family down, stating he does not know if he can ever come back to play the game again. 

Do not do the fans of baseball any favors Barry and stay home with your family then.  He can live off his millions of dollars and gloat with his bogus numbers and see if anybody cares. 

Bonds currently has a knee injury which he is rehabbing from and during his recent rants he stated that the media is trying to destroy him and has made it increasingly hard on his family.  This all coming on the heels of multiple steroid use allegations against Bonds and many of his fellow players.  In America a man is always innocent until proven guilty, but that being said Bonds is as guilty as they come and his tirades toward the media are doing nothing to help his case.

Bonds has already admitted to using an illegal clear substance that according to Bonds he did not know were steroids and anybody with two eyes can see the how much the size of his head has increased over the years.  Not to mention how his power numbers have skyrocketed in recent seasons and his body continues to get bigger at the age of 40.  However this is nothing new and has been discussed at length, but Bonds comments and interviews this spring simply reek of a filthy rat. 

Prior to his press conference with his son, Bonds opened up camp with another press conference bashing the media for focusing on the steroid issue and blaming the media for the problems of baseball.  What, Barry?

He also stated that steroids do nothing to a player's hand-eye coordination and does not help a batter hit a baseball.  All right, the whole world knows he is a user, but he is not too swift in defending himself.  Nobody in the middle of a huge steroid scandal wants to hear Bonds cry about how steroids would not even help a hitter; he might as well just come out and admit it at this point. 

Then to go on further, pointing the finger at reporters claiming that they need to look at their own lives and the rules that they break.  Huh, what does that have to do with anything? 

Bonds simply does not get it.  He never has and he never well.  We can only hope that his career ends with his current 703 homeruns (most of which should be erased from the records anyway) so baseball does not even had to deal with him breaking the most sacred of all records on an uneven playing field.

Bonds is getting exactly what he deserves and hopefully he has a lot more coming his way too.

Not even apples and oranges

Pat Summit, University of Tennessee women's basketball team head coach recorded her 880th career victory earlier this month in a game against another women's basketball team.  Summit has more victories than any other coach in the history of women's basketball and this is a great accomplishment for her. 

That is all that needed to be said and that should have been the end of the discussion following Tennessee's victory earlier this month.  To claim that she broke North Carolina's Dean Smith's record as the all-time winingest coach in men and women's college basketball is preposterous and to compare her to him or any other great coach at the men's level is equally ridiculous. 

This should not even be a discussion and no way an argument.  The men's game is on a whole another level and there is no other to put it.  The women's game is comprised of a few great teams who completely dominate the rest of the teams.  These teams recruit all the top-notch players in the country and beat up the rest of the teams until they play each other two or three times a year.  The overwhelming majority of Summit's wins were over before the ball was even tipped. 

This is no comparison to the men's game who yes do have elite conferences that at times play the Alcorn States of the world, but for the most part are playing against talents of at least almost equal equilivencey.  Smith's record is head and shoulders atop Summit's and there is no need to mix the two.

Summit is a great women's basketball coach and there is nothing wrong with just leaving it at that.

Selig Means Business

Major League Baseball and commissioner Bud Selig handed out their first suspension for testing positive for steroids and it was none other than Alex Sanchez of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Who were you expecting, Barry Bonds or Sammy Sosa? Please!

Anybody could have seen this coming a mile away with Sanchez and his career four homeruns being suspended for 10 games. Selig's stance is that the testing now works and see, we got somebody.

What a bad sell and nobody is buying it. It was obvious that they were looking for a no-name immediately to prove that baseball is not messing around with this plan.

Sanchez is the one that baseball is making an example of and it is pathetic to think that Selig and company believe this is actually fooling anybody. Congress was right to step in to try and fix the steroids problem in baseball because baseball has no desire to do it themselves.

Hold a minute though, because 38 minor league players were recently suspended too for failing the test. Wow, baseball really is not playing around now. What a disgrace. Do not hold your breath for any high profile players to be named anytime soon.

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