Everytime I tried to like Barry Bonds, he did something to piss me off. In spite of this, I thought he was a great hitter. He may have broken Ruth's and Aaron's records without the steroids--the home runs would only have reached the right field stands instead of McCovey Cove. What a tragedy.
By the way, Roger Kahn recounted how an editor once helped him refine his sportswriting by showing him a sentence from the archives: ". . . he pitched as if the plate were high and outside."

The sad thing about ballplayers (like actors) is that we think we know them. We don't know squat about them. As for Bonds' many apologists (like the S.F. Giants fan at my work place) I want to ask "where will you be 12 years from now when he is either broken up, crippled or God forbid dead"?

Role Models,

If there are more professional Artists than professional Athletes, why then do we drug test athletic students and not artistic students? If more children grow up to be teachers than sports stars, why aren’t college professors in line with Rickey (Running Back) Williams proving their clarity of mind through drug testing? This looks more like revenge of the nerds than a war on drugs to me. It is a war on Jocks. Or war on the athletic kid that broke an intellectuals’ glasses in 4th grade. Michael Moore can try to influence an election by creating hate and mistrust by using snippets of artistic film and sound bites, while college professors across America regurgitate Moore’s brilliance to our future leaders. But who cares that these influential pot-heads mold the minds of the impressionable. If Mary K Letourneau had been randomly tested like Rickey, she may not have got knocked up by a 6th grader. An Overland Co 10th Grade geography teacher was just recorded for 20 minutes ranting about Bush being like Hitler, Terrorist being justified hitting the Towers and the American flag looking like the Nazi flag. One heck of a role model there, I tell you. And yes we all know there are 100 Lawyers for every guy who can hit a 90 mile an hour fastball.

If I want to save a baby Fur Seal, I will ask Barry Bonds how to do it, because animal activists and Green Peace are not tested. Barry gets the bat through the zone so fast he could send that pup skinned and into the skiff with one whack. Yes I know I just offended Yoko Ono but she and Snoop Dog are on the same drug test policy. Artistic Freedom is equal to overlooking the fact Van Gogh is put on a pedestal because he drank absinth (a liquid hallucinogen) cut his ear off and sent it UPS. Hello education system, are we still teaching his greatness to the impressionable.

Every parent has the right to implement a drug policy under their own roof. Socialism believes in the institution parenting, whether you believe in the deflective mantra of Youth-Problem or not. In the 50’s the deflective term was the Beat-Nicks and 60’s it was the Hippies. The 70’s, corporate Yuppies did more Coke than all the High schools in our nation. I happen to think it is an adult problem that trickles down to our youth. When we send the message through a public school system that student athletes need to be drug tested? Are we saying those students can’t be trusted, or are we saying they are the only ones worth saving? You-Pick, and then justify it to yourself.

If Student Athletes stood outside the school and chanted (to Yoko’s favorite tune) All We Are Saaaaaayyyyyying (is) Let’s Watch You Go Pe-Peeeeee! Would Michael Moore love them or accuse them of being Bush’s minions. Revenge of the Nerds I tell you, until then, if you want Higher Standards? Send your daughter to an NFL locker room, not Berkley!!!! Rickey Williams should grade test papers, if he wants freedom from testing.

The next college professor that stands before a class and says our enemy is the freedom fighter and Bush the dictator? I would hope that George Bush would bust into the class room, hook up a set of jumper cables to the “knowledgeable ones” Gonads and say; “Pardon me Ho-Chi-Men, but the Dictator is in the house”, just to prove that teacher right for once. The day news annalist, pundits, entertainment industry and news paper employees are drug tested is the day a real drug education begins. Either bring drug testing on strong, or get it out of here completely. Hollywood can go smoke another bowl, and influence this nation.

I think if Pete Rose was a 1st grader today? He would be medicated for his hyperactivity, he would bore of T-Ball because keeping score hurts feelings, and he would never grow up to hit more baseballs than any man alive or dead.

If Charles Barkley said “ I am not a role model, parents are” And a Oscar winner said “ The Arts are a Hammer that molds society” Never expect me to think we are drug testing the appropriate Sub Group of human-society. Revenge of the Nerds, has provided rights to them selves that do not apply to large, aggressive, fast men. America hides its drug use well by pointing fingers at Jocks is all?

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