Barry Bonds is a jerk.  Barry has never cared much about the media, fans or his teammates.  I am convinced that at some point, Barry Bonds used performance enhancing drugs.  OK, I've admitted it.  The world knows it.  Can we please leave this man alone?!?

My whole contention about the "steroid controversy" in baseball is that it's not about steroids at all.  IT'S ABOUT BARRY BONDS.  People hate Bonds.  They don't want this jerk to possibly be considered the greatest player or hitter of all-time.  They'd rather glorify the Gentleman Henry Aaron, or the legendary Babe Ruth, or the splendid Ted Williams.  "Anyone but Barry" is the baseball fan's cry.  So reporters that he has shunned have spend endless hours trying to dig up evidence to prove something that people are already so starved to believe the evidence is just a nice side note (the guys who wrote "Game of Shadows" are investigative reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle).  People in the cycling world will tell you that just as compelling and convincing a case can be made that Lance Armstrong is juicing.  Americans don't want that.  He's the American guy that went to France of all places and dominated their most hallowed event.  We like that over here.  Lance gives good interviews.  He dates celebrities.  He overcame an ailment that has or will touch all of our lives at some point.  He's a "hero".  We can't tarnish him.  So we say that all of the French media he has shunned over the years are just jealous and out to get him.  They are French after all!  But the San Francisco media, they are fine upstanding Americans who are just looking after the game we love.  You all mark my words.  Once Barry's career is over, you'll never hear the steroid controversy again.  At least, not anywhere near as loudly.  Notice that when present players test positive it's just a blurb on the banner on ESPNews.  That's because people don't want Juan Rincon to test positive.  Who cares about him?  We want Barry Bonds to test positive.  That way we don't have to call him one of the 3 greatest hitters of all-time, which he is.  We don't have to call him one of three greatest players of all-time, which he is.  We don't have to call him the greatest player in baseball since Mays, which he is.  We just get to call him a cheater and pretend he never existed.