The Barry Bonds Countdown
Barry Bonds will be in Fenway Park on June 13. He needs 11 home runs in just under a month in order to break the record at Fenway. There is a very real possibility that he will be here when he does it (Wonder what those bleacher seats will cost on StubHub?). This, of course, will not sit well with most Sox fans. Bonds has come out and said he’d never play for Boston, we’re all racist and expressed a general disdain for all things Boston and Red Sox on numerous occasions in the past. I, personally, don’t know anyone who actually likes him.
In addition to all the negativity he expressed toward us Bostonians, the guy is also a cheater and clearly a steroid (past?) user. I’ve connected with the folks over at Fans Love Baseball in order to try to really piss him off while he is here. These guys don’t necessarily hate Barry Bonds as much as I do (personally at least) and are a lot more focused on the steroids aspect of all of this, but its still a great site and product.
In their own words:
We make no attempt to single out Barry Bonds. Barry just happens to be carrying the steroid banner presently. McGwire, Sosa, Bud Selig etc… all of them may be guilty of drinking from the steroid trough. We do however protest the steroid era… and the efforts of Bud Selig. Like a good parent… we do not accept the “everybody does it” excuse… the integrity of the game is at stake. We know the asterisk will never be applied but at least we fans will have said to the future fans … we knew what was going on and we did not stand by and ignore it.
Our asterisk is simply an acknowledgment that we the fans were not ignorant to the truth. Future baseball fans will certainly look back on this time… the steroid era… and they will wonder why no one took a stand and called foul. So this year, we stand up for the past, to show the future, that the now matters. And we will make our stand… in the stands… at the ballpark… for all to see. Our little piece of foam does not attempt to change the record book or right a wrong. That would certainly be beyond our ability and would only add to an already convoluted tangle of words and facts. This little foam asterisk simply allows the fans to demonstrate, in a peaceful simple way, that we were not blind. We were not fooled. And we did not stand by and look the other way while the integrity of the game was ground into the dirt.
These guys have been featured in many news sources and are legit. Read more about them at the following sources:
- The LA Times
- Their local publication
- and of course, Their Own Press Page
There will also be a Fenway Asterisk Party at a local brew house around Fenway before the Giants games - more details on that will come once we are closer to the date.
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