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Barry Bonds, Our Nation Turns It’s Eyes Away From You

Paul Simon wrote a song in 1967 called Mrs. Robinson with the lyrics,

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo)
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson
Joltin' Joe has left and gone away
(Hey, hey, hey...hey, hey, hey)

It was at the height of unrest and juvenile rebellion during the late sixties and Joe DiMaggio was someone who represented the stoic demeanor of men once were. It was now the age of guilt and the new intellectual mentors were “infecting us with this sense of guilt-about Vietnam, the Negro, the poor, pollution-and frown on shame as reactionary and repressive. But, whether or not a sense of guilt will make us a better people, the loss of shame threatens our survival as a civilized society.” 1

Bonds possesses neither stoicism nor shame. He is a black man forged in this new world of guilt without shame. Our society will suffer as a new generation comes of age while another shameless person who lacks wisdom and morals is celebrated as a hero. At first it will be the leftist black second class who suffer most, yet in the end, without condemnation of guilt and a return to shame, we will all suffer greatly.

1 Hoffer, Eric Spirit of an Age Chapter 3
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[BuffaloJack]

Barry Bonds will never be as good as Hank Aaron.
I'd like to see him do it without his elbow protector. A steel, hinged contraption that adds weight to his arm and swing, takes all the strain off his elbow with the hinge guaranteeing that every swing will be exactly like the last. This would be banned except that the league is so greedy that it loves the money Bonds draws in. (I won't even bring up the steroids, cheat gadgets are enough.)
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[Guest]

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[greasepaint]

keep in mind,

had Bonds never used steroids,
most people would never have heard
of the guy...

he would have been , just
another average player.

on top of that, he is cheating
some unknown person out
of his spot, on the roster

[Me#1You#10]

Other than some fleeting melancholy for the demise of baseball as I knew it in my youth, I lost interest long ago. As a kid who grew up in Brooklyn and had a piece of my life surgically removed by Walter O'Malley and the "business", I suppose I'm one of baseball's earliest losses. For a time, the Mets managed to ease the pain somewhat, but my interest for the sport was irretrievably buried under the foundation of the Ebbet's Field apartments.

Next year they raze Yankee Stadium. Unthinkable. True. Who cares.

Baseball ended in 1956. Since then we have baseball* and Cooperstown*...and Barry Bonds*.

For what it's worth...

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