Ho-hum. So Barry Bonds knocked a couple homers out of Wrigley today, with one landing onto Sheffield, but no one threw in back into the park? Hypocrites. If fans are going to boo Bonds and hold up signs with syringes drawn on them, then perhaps they ought to uphold those opinions when financial gain, in the form of an historic baseball, comes flying their way.
If you consider Barry's homerun stats tainted by steroid abuse, then any home run ball he slugs should be considered worthless. But in reality, we know that's not the case. Steroids or not, the homerun balls for number 755 (to tie the all-time HR record) and 756 (to break it) are going to command high prices in today's fanatical sports memorabilia market. Unless you actually believe Bonds never took steroids in his life... it's greed, plain and simple, for anyone who wishes to possess these juiced homerun balls.
But if you're looking for the ultimate form of social justice, how could you not throw back the impending historical homerun balls from Bonds? Just imagine look on Barry's face when he's rounding the bases and sees his ball "rejected" by the fans. You would be labeled an instead hero. You would make endless appearances on every sports medium - talk radio, local news, ESPN, Dateline, you name it. You would be instantly famous. It's not everyday in America that someone upholds their moral values in the face of monetary windfall.
Plus, you would have the makings of a classic MasterCard commericial:
Transit fare on the Red Line to Wrigley: $2
Two scalped bleacher tickets to the ballpark: $120
Hot dogs, beer, baseball mitt and smuggled flask of bourbon: $87.50
Catching Barry Bonds 756th career homerun and throwing it back onto the field because this world should not recognize the efforts of cheaters... Priceless.
Poor Barry. If only he'd stayed off the 'roids, he probably wouldn't have missed so many games/near seasons over the course of his grumpy career. Given his immense natural ability, he could have kept a slow and steady pace of homerun hitting and would probably be on pace to break Hank Aaron's hallowed record.






