Tha Artivist: Barry Was Robbed…

Tha Artivist: Barry Was Robbed…

Barry Bonds will go down as the greatest ballplayer ever. He will also go down as the man whose brilliant Hall Of Fame career was short circuited by the hypocritical MLB (Major League Baseball) establishment…He became the sacrificial lamb for major league baseball’s sins…His godfather and another all time great Willie Mays said that Barry had three good productive years left…2 of those 3 years have already gone (wasted) with the 2010 season coming up...

Barry is being punished by the powers that be not because he used a steroid like substance which wasn’t illegal let alone known by the general public at large…He is being punished because he is not just a strong black man but a defiant one who refuses to know his place and play ball by their rules…He is cut from the same unforgivable Blackness cloth like boxing great Jack Johnson…He is also like Jim Brown: a Black athlete who knows his true worth and limits…

He is being crucified like Mike (Jackson) because he wants to control the economics that control his destiny…He is the only major leaguer in its 30 years history to opt out of the MLB licensing program…You know that’s the program which allows Major League Baseball to act as a baseball players’ de facto agent in terms of representing them for licensing agreements say for a company to use their likeness in a video game…Barry shrewdly reasoned why should he deal with a middle man when he could probably get a better percentage of the profits from the interested business entities dealing with them directly…Barry Bonds is of the Sam Cooke and MJJ as in Michael Joseph Jackson School of Business philosophy: He rather run his own business than to make it somebody else’s business to run him…

That also means that Barry must pay the cost to be the boss and just like Michael they will be demonizing him until he is silenced...And that’s when they start to remake you in the image they see fit...They do not have to wait for you to die a physical death (for example look at Parkinson stricken Muhammad Ali and the multiple sclerosis ridden late great Richard Pryor for recent examples) in order to revamp you…They can make you so irrelevant and misrepresented through the use of the state controlled corporate media apparatus that you will become unrecognizable to the masses that you once appealed to as well as well placed co-signing propaganda for your enemies who despised you (think of the postmortem image emasculation/neutering of MLK )…To paraphrase Malcolm, the media is the most powerful entity on earth and it has the power to make your friends your enemies and vice versa…

Within three years times Bonds would have accomplished something that would have provided enough substantive facts and figures to prove that he was not only quite possibly the greatest left handed hitter ever, but the greatest hitter that ever lived…

One of the main reasons that Bonds was shut out is because baseball is truly a white man’s game again...Less than 9 percent of the current players are African Americans and there is only one Black general manager in all of baseball with no black owners…To add further insult is the fact as recently as 2005 that the Houston Astros became the first team in 40 plus years to not have an African American baseball player on their team during a world series…

Bonds even in his early 40s was one of the best hitters in the game still and although he may not have been the brilliant all around player he once was, Bonds could have substantively contributed a homerun power surge to any American League team just one player away in needing to make a late season run into immortality…Bonds could have been the extra bat that the Red Sox could have used to help them win World Series number 3 in a decade or he could have helped the Yankees to win more than just one world series win that same decade...Could you imagine what he could have done in Yankee Stadium then and now if the Yankees had the balls to ante up and sign him???

I actually believe what happened was that Bonds was considered a pariah and bad news as he was suppose to be the poster boy for what was wrong with baseball…The owners probably conspired among themselves not sign him in order to put the steroid era solidly behind them…Needless to say that they were shortsighted thanks in large part to the muckraking of none other than fellow Bonds 40/40 club member Jose Canseco (only 4 players have had 40 homeruns and 40 stolen bases in one season: Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Alfonso Soriano) whose book exposed the MLB world of loose morals and high octane steroid consumption okayed by the powers that be from the commissioner’s office to the clubhouse for the world at large…Steroid use was a big public secret for all to see…As in the nihilistic movie Casino, nobody cared how the money was made and got there, as long as it kept coming and in bunches…

I remember as an incoming freshman at Washington University in St. Louis I was reading an article about the then historic and nationally celebrated homerun chase between Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs…I read an article in the St. Louis Post Dispatch where some reporters asked Mark McGwire if he was using a drug known as androstene or “andro”, which was outlawed by the NFL but wasn’t by the MLB…He said yes and told them that it wasn’t illegal by MLB standards...They complied with Big Mac and went back to kissing his ass...In other words they gave him a pass and try not to emphasize that his prodigious homerun totals that year wasn’t what they now call “natural”...

Now fast forward to several years later when Mark is testifying before U.S. Congress in tears trying to say that he doesn’t want to talk about the past…Hell he is on record already confessing to using something which wasn’t illegal to use so why is he crying (read whining)??? And why in the hell is Congress wasting tax dollars grilling a grown ass man over a kid’s game when 40 million plus American citizens are without health care insurance??? And the same hypocrites who were writing homoerotic love letters in their sports columns to him in 1998 are now trying to keep him out of Cooperstown??? Hell hath no fury like a journalist scorned…Only in America…

And fast forwarding to 2012, Barry’s first year of eligibility for Hall of Fame consideration if the powers that be decide not to let him come back in the foreseeable future, it will be interesting the excuse these schmucks will use to keep a 7 time MVP, 14 all-star, 8 time gold glove winner, all time walks and career and season homerun leader out of the most illustrious lineup in all of baseball…

The Big Payback: Bonds About To Get Even With The MLB...

http://weallbe.blogspot.com/2008/10/big-payback-bonds-about-to-get-even.html


Barry Patiently Waiting For His Chance @ Bat...
http://weallbe.blogspot.com/2008/07/barry-patiently-waiting-for-his-chance.html

Broken Bonds...

http://weallbe.blogspot.com/2007/06/broken-bonds.html

More Bonds On W.E. A.L.L. B.E. :
http://weallbe.blogspot.com/search?q=barry+bonds

http://www.barrybonds.com

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Outraged Negro says MLB Wrong For Not Celebrating Barry's Homerun Milestone

Barry Good Even When THE MLB ISN'T!!!

On Sunday May 28, 2006, Barry Lamar Bonds became just the second documented ball player to surpass the mighty White Giant known as the Babe Ruth in the most macho of sports categories: career homerun totals…However quiet as it is kept Barry did break a baseball record Sunday and it was significant… 
 

When the specially hologrammed marked baseball left the fat part of Barry's Black bat for a 445ft journey into the bleachers and the annals of sports history it cemented Barry Lamar Bonds as the most prolific left-handed homerun hitter of all time in Major League Baseball History…Up until Barry crushed the ball, Babe Ruth was the record holder for most homeruns by a left-handed hitter so you see Barry not only accomplished a major milestone but also broke and set an actual MLB record!!!
 

All this pigeon crapping and media downplaying by Bud Selig and his lackeys is pure posing because he's too smart not to know…What this actually shows is the cowardice of Major League Baseball to not stand behind one of its most talented and bankable if highly controversial stars because of the guilty cloud put upon Barry by many in the mainstream media regardless of the fact that the man has yet to fail a drug test and is probably tested more than any one athlete except perhaps the great champion bicyclist Lance Armstrong…Public scrutiny and perception which is shaped by the narrowmindedness and factless speculation of the mainstream media is what it is and is the price one pays for seeking fame and fortune in a tabloid addicted society… 
 

Although Bud and the Major League Baseball establishment have already shown how they felt about Barry and his accomplishment it is great to know that many people involved in the game feel otherwise…The great St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols, who is on pace to break Barry Bonds' single season homerun mark of 73 homeruns, publicly came out in support of Bonds and offered the beleagured player nothing but praise and respect and chided the media for not being fair in their assessment and portrayal of Bonds and his achievements… 
 

Another note is Barry's next record to break isn't Hammerin' Hank's career total of 755 homeruns, but the underappreciated Hammerin' Hank's National League homerun record of 733 homeruns…Barry who's has played all 21 years of his spectacular career in the National League needs just 19 homers to pass this record/milestone and will probably do that this year…And oh by the way Babe Ruth still holds the American League record for most homers hit by a player at you guess it 714...No matter what ladies and gentlemen that Fat Bastard (R.I.P.) like Freddie Kreuger and Jason Voorhies refuses to die!!!
 

Yours Truly Even If Maury Povich's Birth Test States Otherwise,
 

The Outraged Negro


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Barry Bonds: The Most Hated Giant Since Goliath???

Bro. Ron aka Tha Artstorian Reports...

'Passing the Torch':Barry celebrating with his Godfather Willie Mays after the superstar passes 'The Say Hey Kid' on the all-time career homeruns list.
As he approaches one of the most heralded records in all of American Professional Sports History the home run record held by Hammerin' Hank Aaron and formerly Babe Ruth, the San Francisco Giants superstar baseball player known asBarry Bonds (holder of the current record for homeruns hit in a season-73) has come under increasing attack and scrutiny from the mainstream media and from some individuals in Major League Baseball for his alleged use of steroids to help him hit homeruns…Barry's life it seems is the stuff made of legend and mythology of the highest order…His father was the late Bobby Bonds, a dynamic and very talented baseball player in his own right and his godfather is Willie Mays, considered by many to be one of the greatest if not the greatest baseball player to ever play the game…The fact that Barry is often considered the greatest player of his generation if not the greatest ever has also got many people concerned over the possibility that many of his records may be 'tainted' by possible steroid use…It should also be noted that baseball has a long history of 'tainted' records simply for the fact that known Blacks with the ability and talent to play baseball were not allowed to play with Whites for over half a century in what is now known as Major League Baseball which should bring up the question about the validity of any records set before 1947, the year Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball…Since Babe Ruth and other notable White baseball players pre-1947 were not allowed to play against some of the best baseball players of their generation who happened to be Black (the Babe once told a news reporter that the greatest baseball player that he ever saw was John Henry "Pop" Lloyd, a Black man) should their records also contain asterisks by them as well??? Think about it would there be a Babe Ruth if more people knew about what Josh Gibson did or was capable of doing against all pitchers (Josh hit 900 + homeruns to Babe Ruth's 714 and also hit 70 + homeruns for a season back in 1930s while the Babe's highest total for a season was 60), how about Martin Dihigo vs. Joe Dimaggio??? Also would their be a Cy Young Award if Satchel Paige was allowed to play against all comers in his prime (by the way Satchel Paige won 2,000 games to Cy Young's 511)???

It should also be noted that every since Major League Baseball implemented steroid testing back in 2002 Barry has yet to fail a test while 12 other players have, including future Hall of Famer (???) Rafael Palmeiro who even allegedly lied about taking steroids during a U.S. Congressional hearing on the subject of drug abuse in baseball…Another reason why Barry isn't liked is because of his disdain and lack of cooperation with the mainstream press…He has been labeled a racist by some (which is ironic considering that his first wife, Sun Bonds, is white and his kids are racially mixed) and a cheater by others (although to date no exact proof exist that he ever knowingly took any steroids which is why an investigation into steroid use was launched by Major League Baseball among other reasons)…His 'personality flaw' acording to his detractors has cost him untold millions in endorsements over the course of his career, but in baseball Barry is one of the best paid players in the game (Barry earned 22 million dollars last year, bested only by A-Rod's 25 million dollars)...To me Barry Bonds is the "most controversial" Black athlete America has seen in decades …Even for the sake of argument that Barry took steroids pre-2002 would it be right to persecute people for breaking a law that did not exist in Major League Baseball before 2002??? These type of character assassinations of a prominent Black athlete haven't been seen since the days of a young Ali or Jack Johnson...All three represented and represent very intelligent and articulate Black men with exceptional gifts and talents who raised the ire of White America as well as some in Black America with their refusal to conform or reform to the status quo…Please take time to look at these links and always feel free to form your own opinion on the man known as Barry Lamar Bonds and his achievements:
http://www.barrybonds.com
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/giants/2006-03-29-bonds-cover_x.htm
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AoYqJNA8yaumGFirSQCsRrARvLYF?slug=ap-bonds-syringe&prov=ap&type=lgns
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-bonds-homelessaunt&prov=ap&type=lgns
http://www.starpulse.com/Athletes/Bonds,_Barry/Articles/
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/sports-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/03/28/20060328-E7-01.html