Ken Rosenthal is not a nice man

The signing of Bonds would put the sport's problem with PEDs back in the headlines at a time when the fallout from the Mitchell report is fading, a time when Roger Clemens is more of a question for the government than a question for baseball.

If anything, this is an argument for Bonds to play in 2008.  He would represent a very bold and symbolic UP-YOURS to Mitchell and Selig.  Bonds isn't putting PEDs in the headlines...these A-holes and the reporters who get paid to write unreadable trash about their sport do.

Nice title.

that article gave me the feeling that if i ever saw ken in person i would spit in his face. i am so tired of the way BB is vilified, yet everyone else seems to get what is close to a free pass. the only reason most fans despise PED users in the first place is because of the jaded way the media NOW wants to portray them.

why cant people accept the fact that the main reason the game has changed is due to the progression of time. athletes have year round training programs, nutritionists, and an infinite amount of other things available to them that was not there, nor thought of, in the supposed golden era of the game.

we can sit there and praise players of yesteryear for trying to gain advantages, ala scuffed balls, flattened bats, and numerous other means, yet BB gets thrown under the bus for supposedly taking advantage of things that were readily available to him and others.

the other thing i want to know is, what makes what BB supposedly did that much different than any player taking every supplement under the sun to gain an advantage? is it just the legality of said substances?

A dickless motherfucker? How can he do that if he doesn't have a...You know what I don't want to know.

Well Ken's certainly a gaping a-hole.

Hey dickless, what about writing some shit about Roger Clemens being bad for baseball?

"Is this true?"

"Yes sir, this man has no dick."
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That's really the only quote I ever need.

Rosenthal just adds his name to the long list of sports media who are making idiots of themselves on a daily basis with nonsense like this.

Rosenthal is basically saying here that the owners should all agree to not sign Bonds--collusion, in other words. Collusion was wrong when the owners were trying to keep payrolls down. But this is different, right Ken?

Look, we have a set of rules meant to govern and protect the game. They now include testing for steroids and other PEDs, and they include penalties for testing positive for their use.

Rosenthal, and the sports media in general, keep trying to set themselves up as the arbiters of who is clean and who isn't. I can think of a few problems with this approach:

• The media's subjectivity and bias are astonishingly blatant.
• The media doesn't have access to complete information on every major league player. They certainly are able to dig up their own dirt, but when the media digs up dirt on a player, it calls into question why that player was singled out, who else has been ignored, and what was the determining factor either way. Today, we all "know" that Barry Bonds used PEDs, but we have no idea how many others have used as well.
• It's not the media's job. Ken Rosenthal has no authority, moral or otherwise, to tell any baseball owner who to sign or not to sign. It's MLB's job. Have they been doing that job? No, and that's certainly a big part of the problem. But the fact that Bud Selig is a buffoon and Gene Orza a sleazebag still doesn't mean that we need the game to be policed by the likes of Ken Rosenthal, Jim Rome and Rick Reilly.

Here's the only important point that needs to be made regarding whether or not Bonds should be allowed to Major League Baseball: Barry Bonds has not failed a test under the drug-testing rules adopted by the most recent collective bargaining agreement, nor has he done anything to warrant a suspension or removal from the game. If Bud Selig and MLB think that he has, then by all means, they should suspend Bonds. Or try to. Otherwise, Rosenthal and everyone like him should all pour themselves a nice, tall glass of shut the heck up.