Don Chavez

I’m not a Barry Bonds fan, and would never come close to defending him in any argument unless it was something along the lines of “Who’s more unemployable, Barry Bonds or Amy Fisher?”

Just for the record, Amy Fisher is now gainfully employed as a webcam model for Imlive.com (NSFW).

What’s been really causing monkey butt for me is the way that the Baseball Hall of Fame presents itself as a publicity whore. Everyone knows that Marc Ecko purchased Barry’s 756th career home run ball just to attach his name/brand to it, but what was with all of the bitching and moaning by the HOF?

I understand that the HOF wants to follow a set of rules so that people don’t accidentally stumble upon the Hall of Anarchy on their next trip to Cooperstown, but Tuesday’s situation was absurd.

“Yes we’ll take it! No, wait, we won’t. Fuck it, hand it over. Ah shit, how are we going to display it with an asterisk?”

Does the HOF think that not displaying this ball will make us forget the steroid era? Do they think that not inducting Pete Rose into the HOF will make history and the fans forget him?

Sure the HOF is worried about Barry Bonds boycotting the HOF if the ball is displayed, but what does that mean? Last time I went to the HOF Carl Yastremski wasn’t standing there to greet me and read off his career stats. They had a fucking plaque on a wall to represent him.

I can’t think of a better way to wrap this bitch session up than by saying, just display the ball and if Barry doesn’t show up to the HOF induction ceremony (assuming he gets the votes) have someone else stand in for him. I know a guy who would love to do it, and for an extra $500 he’ll even close out the speech by saying that he’s sorry he bet on baseball.