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Barry Bonds’ credibility is pretty much shot with this news:

Barry Bonds failed a test for amphetamines last season and originally blamed it on a teammate, the Daily News reported Thursday.

When first informed of the positive test, Bonds attributed it to a substance he had taken from teammate Mark Sweeney’s locker, the New York City newspaper said, citing several unnamed sources.

“I have no comment on that,” Bonds’ agent Jeff Borris told the Daily News on Wednesday night.

“Mark was made aware of the fact that his name had been brought up,” Sweeney’s agent Barry Axelrod told the Daily News. “But he did not give Barry Bonds anything, and there was nothing he could have given Barry Bonds.”

Talk about a stand up guy. He’s dirty according to a 2006 test, then he blames his teammate for giving him the illegal substance. I’d ask what type of man would do that but I think people already know what type of man Barry Bonds is.

As a lifelong fan, I’m appalled with Bonds’ actions but I’m sickened by his total unwillingness to accept responsibility for anything he’s ever done. That isn’t what real men do. That’s what total losers do.

For the record, I hope that Barry Bonds never eclipses Henry Aaron’s 755 home run total. I hope that his body continues deteriorating and that he’s forced to retire without the record. That said, I don’t want MLB to put an asterisk after Bonds’ name if he breaks Aaron’s record. I don’t want MLB to keep him out of the record books because, statistically, he will have broken the record. What I do want is for the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), responsible for Hall of Fame voting, to not give Bonds serious consideration for the first decade that he’s eligible for Cooperstown. In fact, if he’s ever inducted into Cooperstown, I hope fans show up and boo him at the ceremony.

I also hope that books get written telling everyone what a dirtbag of a teammate he was, what a prima donna he was, how he didn’t talk often with reporters. In short, I want him utterly stigmatized for being a poor excuse of a human being.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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