Re: OT - Congratulations to the Greatest Player in Baseball History!

<bryguy58@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:E4nui.2783$IE5.2678
@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net:

mozark wrote:
It's been an honor to watch you, Mr. Bonds.

On to 800!

Of course, for all you racist mooks who look like
over-stuffed burritos out on the slo-pitch softball
diamond -- and who are all such experts in things like
rules, and fair play, and competitiveness, and clubhouse
presence, and taking one for the team, and making nice
with the media, and what it feels like to be crucifixed
-- go *** yourselves. This is a 43-year-old man who must
deal with more vilification in any 10 minutes of his life
than all of you will ever deal with in the entirety of
yours. The 43-year-old man who is LEADING the Major
Leagues in OBP, Runs Created, and OPS. Right now. (What
are those?!?) (But that's probably because he's still
cheating, says Homer Simpson.)

Barry, you are the greatest. And how this all went down
will smell as badly as everything else from this savage,
sick and corrupt time.

Impressive defense. (Not that I give a *** about the GOG,
but I appreciate your passion--although I dislike Bonds--but
I dislike the racist angle on Bonds much more.)

I still don't get where the "racist" thing comes from. I do understand
that people who hated Aaron when he was persuing Ruth's record could
have (and did have) a racist basis. Ruth was white and Aaron black. But
when a black man is breaking another black man's record, where does race
play into it? In a country like ours, where racism is far more pervasive
than most people think or are willing to admit, it seems to me that to
cry "racism" in defense of Bonds is weak and also betrays the weakness
of any defense of him.

--
If I were a cactus, I wouldn't need so much water
.