OK, so he has nothing to do with the Red Sox per say, but how can we ignore a chance to really ridicule the biggest idiot in baseball today?

First, lets look at his rookie card. Draw your own conclusions on whether or not he ever did steroids (this comes from an email, so I don’t know who to give credit to on this one)

And of course, the I hate Barry Bonds rant that we are all thinking, but Sean actually wrote down:

Barry Bonds:

• Great hitter for power and average, baseball’s all time HR leader
• Excellent fielder and could steal bases regularly before he “bulked up”
• Never won a championship

The third alone is what will always sullen his “legacy” with me, even though he is a stats machine and is probably the best 5 tool player, ever.

But talent isn’t enough.

Sure, lots of great players never won titles; sometimes it out of lack of talent and bad luck surrounding them in a bad situation (Cubs and Ernie Banks in the 50’s and 60’s; Barry Sanders with those god awful Lions teams). Sometimes it is because you are just a non-clutch player and a self-absorbed teammate.

Bonds is the latter. It was always about him and his HRs; him and his battle with the “biased” media; him and the “lack” of talent/coaching around him.

Sure, he has Hall of Fame stats, but no Hall of Fame memories. Lots of record breaking home run clips………..but no Reggie Jackson/Michael Jordan-like performances in a deciding playoff game. No Kirk Gibson/Joe Carter walk off HR moments to send his team to the playoffs/WS.

Typical Bonds: during the 2002 WS, he closed out one of the most dominant overall World Series performances ever. He went 8-for-17 (.471) with four homers and a .700 on-base percentage. Pretty good numbers.

And you know what he says after he lost Game 7?

“I went 1-for-3 with a walk, that’s a good day. Am I supposed to go 3-for-3 with three home runs?” Bonds said. “What do you want from me?”

You think Peyton Manning says that? Tom Brady? David Ortiz? Tiger Woods? The greatest athletes, IMO, are not the ones with the most stats, talent, or drive…….they are the ones with the most accountability to know that in the end, when they didn’t win, that they didn’t do enough. Bonds never understood that in Pittsburgh or SF, he never will. To those players, 1-3 with a walk isn’t a good day. A good day is when the game is over, that they got the W.

Yeah, maybe you could of used the reasoning for that teams pitched around him and he in fact had a “lack of talent” around him for a good portion of his career.

He can’t handle the pressure of owning up to the media and answering questions about his steroid use, always hiding behind his children or his lawyers. What makes you think he would be able to fight off pitch-after-pitch and drive home the winning run at ANY cost when his team needs him the most?

In the end, the prime time players get it done and he never did, and probably never will because he’s most likely to retire after this year.

I’m glad he did it……for his sanity. For the sake of his family. For the sake of his career. But more importantly, for us, now the media can just STFU about Bonds and focus on more important things in baseball:

Like teams and players who actually have a chance to win.

Stumble it!

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