February 20 - When you bet on a San Francisco Giants baseball game or even pick your fantasy baseball team you wonder about Barry Bonds and whether or not he will play. But why bother? Bonds remains as selfish, paranoid, and maniacally egotistical as always, so if he does play this season the only one affected wll be Barry.
Barry Bonds may or may not be a liar. He may be a forty-something player who woke up one day blessed with a Herculean build, who mistakenly rubbed steroid cream all over thinking it was flaxseed oil (who of us hasn't done that?), who jacked 73 home runs one season based on raw talent alone only to be shocked that his personal trainer and "vitamin" suppliers all went to jail for dealing illegal performance-enhancing drugs, or he may be lying. Whatever the case he remains a world-class whinger; in Barry's mind he is the most persecuted superstar since that long-haired dude who walked on water.
Barry's Pharisees are the Evil Media, the very people that he grudgingly gives interviews to in which he says that baseball isn't fun anymore, that he doesn't care about home run records, and that he just wants people to forget about him.
Baseball isn't meant to be fun for Barry Bonds. It's his job and he gets paid millions of dollars on an annual basis to help his team win. Winning should be important to him, but time and again he has shown that the San Fransisco Giants, an overrated team from a sports betting perspective (old, mediocre pitching - far more important to wins and losses than Barry right now - and poorly coached), are a subordinate concern to chasing personal records. Barry waits for his pitch, the one he can hit out of the park, and if it doesn't come he'll take a walk, regardless of the situation. He'd like people to forget about him, and that's clearly why he gives interviews to USA Today that will be read all over the country.
Here is what we do know: Barry Bonds would sooner be wheeled out to the plate than miss out on breaking Hank Aaron's record. He would do anything, absolutely anything, to get that record, and most adults probably comprehend this in the same way that we comprehend that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are sweet gestures to an idealised life we wish was true but acknowledge to be nothing more than ultimately false promises we make to children.
Barry Bonds and his records are false promises. Major League Baseball is not Christmas although it would dearly like to package, market, and sell itself in the same way in order to boost revenues. It is a business that trades on emotional currency, and the men employed by that business must do what they have to in order to make more money. You can probably make money on your own by betting against Barry's Giants this season, and every online sportsbook will offer daily betting on baseball. Furthermore, when those 'books offer odds on whether Bonds will break that home run record, another chimera masquerading as an unsullied American Dream, you are advised to bet on Barry hitting those 48 home runs without any hesitation.
Barry Bonds might hate the fans, he might hate the media, and he might even hate baseball for giving him a fortune and a comfortable existence, but he doesn't hate it enough to stop short of that one great record. Even though stopping short would be his first gesture of humility and humanity and might well save him from history's scorn. Then again, no man consumed by hubris ever thought to stop short of the sun.
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