woke up to this travesty that got my blood boiling this morning:

barry bonds breaks hank aaron’s record

what a farce. and i am *angry* – not at barry bonds, but that the people who matter have knowingly allowed this record to be tainted, allowed the sport to be tainted in this indelible way. who stood there like ostriches, and let it happen.

this was, of course, a long time in coming – anyone who watched baseball’s last home run chase in 1998 knew the record was soaked in steroids.

the difference is, they had the chance to put this one right. the difference is, this record is unlikely to ever be surpassed – people just don’t have 20+ year careers anymore. the difference is, this equates hank aaron’s lifetime of dedication and craft – all that is good and noble about the sport – with something mean and cheap and dirty.

that everyone know’s bonds is a cheat, just adds insult to injury. because it’s the generations of fans who care about the game who’ve been cheated – they’ve been handed tarnished fools gold and expected to show veneration. it’s a shabby imitation of achievement, and it makes a mockery of whatever pretext of purity the sport had left.

and the league have allowed it to happen, in deliberate, willful ignorance of what every baseball fan knows to be true – that record does not belong to bonds. that record rightly belongs to the fans who make the game possible – and they’re angry that what has long been lauded as the most hallowed record in american sports history, has been allowed to be defamed in this shameful deceit.

let’s lay the blame squarely where it belongs – at the feet of the commissioners and vips who’s sole job it is to elevate the sport to the best it can be.

the biggest, most blatant asterisk of all has just headed into the hall of fame – and they let it happen.

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