If you are going to comment a “blog” type post, then maybe it would be best if you um, started your own blog?

Sean Penn is an actor and anything he says about anything other than acting is meaningless.

So while Bonds may have taken steroids, it is true that some people have higher levels of steroids to begin with. If sports were all about being totally fair, then we should have doctors take tests, measure all body chemistry, and make sure all chemistries are even. Think that is going to happen anytime soon?

Bonds also got me to thinking about why I and others watch sports. I remember the movie Vision Quest about a wrestler, and a speech one of the kid’s mentors made about how watching Pele made him cry. He said that it was amazing to watch a member of his race, the human race, do something so beautiful. Watching Bonds hit, Jordan shoot, Elway throw, or Gretzky pass is art in motion. There isn’t an athlete alive who doesn’t envy their talents.

As far as why Bonds record is “tainted”, I think it has zero to do with steroids and everything to do with the media. The media hates Bonds; they think he is an ass,and he probably is but so were a lot of legendary baseball talents. The media envied the spitball pitcher who got away with it but not Bonds. The spitball pitcher kissed the media’s ass while Bonds kicked it. The “issue” has less to do with Bonds cheating than the media not liking him.

I for one have gotten totally sick of our profit driven media. My younger brother got back from travelling the world and was shocked at how tense the U.S. is compared to elsewhere. The reason is simple: fear sells, and our media is scaring the shit out of us. Pick up a typical magazine and read about all the ways you are going to die: AIDS, global warming etc. And because of the money, the media is now making news not reporting it.

Our media has learned that telling you things you want to hear is a great way to pump up the dough too. The entire news media is loaded with people who say, “If I were Barry Bonds, I would do this…” Yes, you and the media are more deserving than Bonds is.

I can never understand morons who think that if they had Bonds talent, money, or fame, they would do better with it. To all those envious morons, I say go out and make it on your own. I have news for you: Barry Bonds is not holding you back.

I hope the internet with blogs like this one are the death knell to this media empire. So often I have found the driveby media (an expression borrowed from Rush Limbaugh) is too afraid to say anything controversial. No one in the media had the balls to call Bush’s bluff on Iraq, but Sean Penn went to Iraq and saw first hand Iraq was not a threat to us.

Maybe you don’t like Sean Penn, but Sean Penn was right about Iraq, and the entire media was wrong.

I say we celebrate Bonds achievements and tell the media to go screw itself.

Considering the amount of beer & whiskey golfers drink during these tournaments any advantage given by the steroids goes down the drain.

Good point. Very few gave Tiger Woods flak for his laser surgery to improve his distance vision.

We’re in the steroid era, deal with it. Barry Bonds is unquestionably the best player of the steroid era, deal with it.

Some lucky winner is in the blog wings, I can just feel it.

#32, Mr. Mustard, Unlike most on this blog, I’m anticipating the college football season. So I’m crazy, so what. Ya’ll go watch whatever entertainment you want. But yes, I’d rather go watch kids play then some of those overpaid steroid athletes. I miss Nolan Ryan.