I wanted to once again steer away from my normal “locker room” talk and discuss Bary Bonds, our fallen baseball hero. Bonds has at times been vilified in the press. His recent indictment on counts of perjury and obstruction of justice there is even more reason to call him a villain. Bonds has always had a shaky relationship with the press and even his fans so some might not classify him as a fallen hero but as a villain who simply got caught.
This is the second time in months that a African American athlete has been indicted charges of perjury and placed under the suspicion of using steroids. Bonds will always remain in the history books, such as Marion Jones is but now there will be an asterisk next to their names. Bonds may or may not have used steroids but Marion Jones has admitted to usgage and because of their dishonesty a cloud of suspicion is now under all our African American athletes.
