I’ve already made mention of this, but a post from McQ [1] and the timing of it as regards other conversations, I think deserves a response:
Hit number 756
[Yawn]
Says the real home run king [2]:
“I would like to offer my congratulations to Barry Bonds on becoming baseball’s career home run leader,” [Hank]Aaron said. “It is a great accomplishment which requires skill, longevity and determination.
Hank has too much class to add the last reason – steriods. And yeah, I know there’s nothing “official” about that, but I have eyes. It will eventually come out.
The timing of other conversations, involves the whole Beauchamp thing. I said to Billy earlier this morning:
The people who engaged in the “piling on”, as Rick describes it, are average Americans, just Joe and Jane Lunchbox, who are reacting, I think correctly, to being lied to. In my view, the larger the numbers of individuals screaming, (Note the wording) the more the perception gets out there, that “hey, perhaps this does matter”. Which in turn effectively counters the nutty professor and his ilk, and their claims that ‘it doesn’t matter”.
The reaction to this bit with Barry Bonds, is largely the same. The American people have (correctly) identified this as a lie, and are reacting accordingly.
Another parallel; notice where I said in my note to Billy:
As an aside, I would further suggest that their not being pundits, and their not being news people, is in addition to their credibility, not a subtraction from it, but then again, that’s just me.
A similar situation is occurring here. The sports Pundits are forced by a number of pressures, to be heaping praises on Barry Bonds. Those same pressures force them to ignore the fact that the whole thing is a chemically induced lie. Whereas, the American people for the most part have correctly identified it as a large mound of cattle feces and are so reacting.