Sunday, September 23, 2007

Walking Slowly Down the Hall of Fame

"Unsavory is a polite word for the trashy way big league baseball has gone about its business since the mid-1990s. That was when rafts of players began beefing biceps and boosting stats by turning their bodies into walking pharmacies.
"Bonds has been the most vilified. It is widely assumed that the last portion of his career has been fueled by steroids. He denies it. I don't believe him, and I don't condone what I think he did. I doubt that he'd have the record otherwise."

In the Los Angeles Times, Kurt Streeter considers clothing designer Marc Ecko's purchase of and call for voting what to do with Barry Bonds's record-breaking home-run ball. (Public vote ends at 11:59pm EST on Tuesday, September 25.)

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