A New Order

Bonds
Aaron
Ruth

That's the new top three, I don't care what you think about Bonds personally you can not deny that he is one of the handful of greatest players ever.

Congrats to the fans in San Diego, it had been feared that if Barry knocked a historic big fly in a field not named Pac Bell the incident would be marred by booing and protesting. The vast majority of the 42,497 sell out crowd on hand gave the moment the respect it deserved. It's a fact, San Diego is the greatest city in the history of the world.

One of the few not cheering after Bonds lined the 2-1 Clay Hensley fastball 382 feet over the right field wall was Allan Selig. Selig put his hands in his pockets as Barry trotted around the bases for the 755th time in his career. In a press release after the game, Selig once again pointed to the innuendo surrounding this era of baseball. At this point I don't even want him at the games anymore, just send a big cardboard cut out that way it'll look more life-like...and less like a dead fish wearing a toupee.

As much as Selig/Aaron don't like Bonds, apparently the fans in San Diego do as do the fans who voted him to start the All-Star game (deservedly so) ... maybe he didn't hear the fans cheering.

It makes no sense for the Commish who wants his lasting legacy to be that he implemented the strict drug testing policy that ends the steroids era (never minding that he was in charge when things escalated quickly) to publicly condemn the games biggest star without a failed drug test. Selig wants to stand stand in defiance of the evil players who rape the integrity of the game buy using illegal steroids to gain inhuman power. The best/only way for him to go about that is to stand behind his testing system, last time I checked Barry has 755 more home runs than failed steroid drug tests.

Bonds is the best player I've ever seen, and even at 42 years old still far and away the most feared hitter in the game.

Here's what BaseballProspectus wrote about Barry: "Insanely great. No longer the best player in baseball on a one-year basis, but only because he plays left field instead of shortstop. In career value, he has passed all left fielders except Williams, Musial and Henderson. He’ll pass Henderson in about two years, Musial in three and Williams in seven. By the time his career ends, he will displace Ted Williams in those “best player ever” discussions between Ruth and Wagner. Believe it or not, Bonds is still underrated."

That was written a decade ago. Bonds should be remembered more fondly than Selig

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(here's what I previously wrote about Selig and steroids.)