Rationalization Pop Quiz: What Do Barry Bonds And Elizabeth Warren Have In Common?
“It’s the cheating, stupid!”
“It’s the cheating, stupid!”
I’m sorry, but I promised.
Blame Brad Lidge.
He should not be in the Hall of Fame. Selig belongs outside looking in, and required to buy a ticket for admission along with Barry Bonds and the other cheats he allowed to defile the sport.
Barry Bonds was not a great baseball player. He had the ability to be one, but not the character.
The MLB network promotes these guys as “experts,” which means their unethical arguments will be aped by gullible listeners, who will also absorb their unethical reasoning to apply in other contexts. Thus does sports corrupt as well as inspire.
The worse the Rodriguez saga gets, and it will get worse, the uglier Bonds’ slippery slope looks.
You think it’s wrong that Chris Davis can’t get the respect and admiration he deserves this season, Craig? So do I. And your boy Barry Bosnds is the primary one responsible.
Craig Calcaterra thinks that it’s obvious that Barry Bonds belongs in the Hall of Fame. He could not be more wrong.
The four words rank near the top of my list of “Things I Will Never Think, Feel, or Write,” somewhere between “I love the New York Yankees” and “I’m skipping the ethics seminar because I don’t want to miss the finale of “Dancing With The Stars.”
Barry Bonds stands as a monument to the value of cheating and lying. His smug success at reaping all the benefits of illicit PED use—wealth, fame, and immortal records—with no significant negative consequences is a big, cultural green light to cheaters everywhere, at a time when cheating is a growing problem in American society.