[As soon as I finished posting this entry, I see a report that Bonds has backed off the retirement talk. Will everyone please stop playing the Favre card!]
I guess Bonds wants his farewell tour in 2006. In an interview with USA Today, Bonds cemented his place as the whiniest baseball player of our generation.
I’m not playing baseball anymore after this. The game (isn’t) fun anymore. I’m tired of all of the crap going on. I want to play this year out, hopefully win, and once the season is over go home and be with my family. Maybe then everybody can just forget about me.
If Bonds wasn’t such a dick to everyone until it served his needs, then maybe fans is stadiums around the country would show up to wish him well. But I have a hard time believing that many fans will show up to honor Barry Bonds. I’m not even talking about the steroid allegations. Let’s assume that doesn’t even exist. Why would fans show up to honor him when he’s given so little back to the game? Barry is a selfish, arrogant, me-first athlete and he wants us to adore him? Please.
A quick check of Giants blogs shows that even Giants fans don’t really care.
[USA Today]: Bonds: ‘I’m not playing baseball anymore after this’
[SFGate]: Bonds goes back, forth. Stories differ about retiring
2 replies on “Bonds stealing retirement spotlight from Sosa”
Please stick a fork in my eye — Barry Bonds doesn’t like what baseball has turned into? He is EVERYTHING negative that baseball has turned into. He represents the overpaid ahtlete by taking home 18 million last year for how many games? Fine, whatever. If the Gigantes want to pay it, it’s their deal. He’s a horrible teammate, just ask Jeff Kent or Andy Van Slyke and God knows how many other people. Many in baseball won’t come out and necessarily bash a fellow union member, but have you ever heard any player come out and defend Bonds? Me neither. I grew up watching him in Pittsburgh early in his career and he was the same way then as he is now.: moody, miserable and just an all out ass, whether to teammates, coaches or that horrible, predatorial Pittsburgh media who consisted of maybe two beat writers and a handful of TV reporters happy to have a job in sports. He is the center of the steroid controversy and rightfully so. Apologists say he hasn’t been caught in a steroid test by MLB. But didn’t he testify IN COURT THAT HE TOOK STEROIDS?! (I need a bigger font). Please please please please go.
agreed — He hates the media but yet loves telling us he’s tired via the media.
Tired. Whatever dude. try working in a coal mine. Or blogging for a living. ;)