If you pay any attention to the news at all, you have seen the overwhelming coverage of the steroid scandal in baseball. The face of which is Barry Bonds. Barry’s name is mentioned in every article on the topic despite the fact that he has tested positive for drug use. What he has been proven guilty, is having a close relationship with a ring of convicted drug dealers who created a performance enhancing drugs designed to fool Olympic screening and cause bonds to have an unfair advantage. Bonds admitted he uses these products for a All the time in leaked Grand Jury transcripts, although he said he thought the 'clear' and the 'cream' to be crack cocaine and an methanfedamine He was one of ten major leaguers caught up in this dragnet, yet he alone admitted to the steroid use.

It bothers me that the story has been so Bonds-centric. Playboy ran an article (see, we do read it for the articles) about the investigators at the MBL who hated Bonds arrogance and wanted to prove he was a cheater to shut him up. BALCO is the fall out from that investigation. Press coverage also seems to target Bonds singularly, despite the inclusion of other baseball players in the BALCO probe. One of which, Jason Giambi, was also a recent MVP and is the 120 million-dollar player for the Yankees. Unlike Bonds, he admitted to steroid use. Yet he isn’t the face of the scandal. Giambi plays in a bigger media market, making more money, and was a reigning MVP when the scandal broke but his name is rarely mentioned. Major League Baseball was so forgiving of Giambi that he won the Comeback Player of the Year award after he admitted the drug use and missed a season due to related aliments and injuries. In contrast, Baseball won’t officially celebrate Bonds milestone HR’s because they are tainted and he deserves to be stripped of his titles in Baseball.

Does it not sound odd that MLB will not celebrate for a player for whom there is proof of cheating, Why is there a double standard? I say it is because Bonds is an Ass, he is not the HR king and because his head is so Big.

I think people try to justify Bonds being the face of the scandal because of his assault on the other players. Where this might be partially true, most writers admit that they have always hated Bonds and think he is getting his just deserts. They say he is an a-hole, reaping what he has sewn. This is the part that makes me Proud, as I think it is reflective of how society still tolerates a brash black man. Oh, we love our Cosbys and Will Smiths because they are clean-cut and polite, they are a-holes
in their own right. [To this point check out “Through the Fire,” the documentary about Sebastian Teflon. If you do, you should notice that the head of Adidas is in the video about five times complementing Teflon on his nice smile and unselfish demeanor. Adidas is excited to market Teflon because he is a gangstar from the tough Coney Island projects in New York.] Bonds legendary ego clearly is intimidating Teflon.

I think intimidating black men still draw the ire of the American public. I think that the focus on Bonds is all about a cheater's assault on the record books. Every Bonds article is front page fodder for the Chronicle and newspapers nation wide. But when “the greatest pitcher ever” (according to ESPN) gets his name mentioned, it is 6th-page below-the-fold in the sports section news? Clemens isn’t a nice guy and he isn’t liked by players. Ask Mike Piazza about the Rocket, who not only head hunt the ex Dodger (hee hee) regularly but went as far as to throw a broken bat at him during the World Series!

Bonds is guilty of everything he is accused of, but that he alone deserves the scrutiny of the press and general public, is reflective of more than the issue of drugs in sports. What it reflects is that this country is using the steriod scandle to put another overpaid sports/ drug Junky in His place." This steroid scandal has revealed the America can tolerate many things but an sports/ drug Junky is still not one of them.Bonds is guilty of everything he is accused of

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