What? Not one major league team wants a slightly used and abused home run king. Come 'on folks, he's good for at least 20 homers this year.
Showing posts with label Barry Bonds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barry Bonds. Show all posts
Friday, July 18, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
ROGER CLEMENS THE LIAR, THE CHEATER* (ASTERISK)
I don't want to say we told you so... but we did. Yesterday, we ran this picture.
And we told you that baseball's MVP , seven time Sy Young Award winner and World Series winner Roger Clemens is a liar. And we also accurately told you that the testimony would hinge not on what Roger did or didn't do but on his wife Debbie's obvious use of steroid and/or growth hormones. If Debbie is not on the juice... Roger is married to a Terminator. I'm telling you Debbie has gone Bionic Woman and Roger knew it. He not only knew his wife ...was taking HGH (growth hormone), but he knew the guy who was shooting her up Brian McNamee, is his own trainer, the same guy who says he shot Roger up with steroids.
Roger Clemens thinks the public is stupid enough also to believe:
A. He doesn't know what HGH is. (Roger, Yogi and Boo Boo live in a cave)
B. He didn't know his wife, who he sleeps with every day, was taking it.C. That his own trainer, Brian Mc Namee, the guy accusing him, was the one shooting it into his wife.
D. That he didn't know Andy Pettit, his best friend, took them.
E. That Andy has gone Mr. Magoo, and doesn't really remember hearing Roger talk about taking his own HGH or steroids.
F. That Andy's wife must be crazy because even she knew her best friends, the Clemens family, were on the juice.PEOPLE, PEOPLE, PEOPLE... If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and throws strikeouts like a mechanical cyborg. It's a juiced up Duck on growth hormones!!!
Roger you need to come clean. Media and press you need to press this just like you pressed Barry Bonds for the last two years **** asterisk, asterisk on all Clemens records and awards.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
ROGER CLEMENS WON'T COME CLEAN AND NEITHER WILL THE SPORTS MEDIA
Though a video on his website, Roger Clemens has again denied any use of steroids and HGH. Clemens will also have a 60 Minutes interview this week. We expect he'll continue to deny it. Clemens' friend Andy Pettitte has acknowledged his own use. And you and I both know, you usually do what your friends are doing. You can not stray too far away.So when will the sports press and other "investigative reporters" start blasting like they have already done on slugger Barry Bonds for this pastyear? When are we going to get the interview with Roger Clemens and Black ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith, firing the questions. That's what I call kicking this whole investigation and discovery up a notch. Until then I agree with Barry, this is all so lame.
Friday, December 7, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Online Black Entertainment News With The Latest On Barry Bonds, Jordin Sparks and Samuel L Jackson... Oh Yeah, We Forgot About O.J.!
Those of you who luvvv Samuel Jackson will be in store for a few movies coming down the pipeline, including one with our personal favorite, Bernie Mac.
But don't look for either of them to be in the upcoming and sure to be controversial HBO Barry Bonds pic, nor grooving to new music from Jordin Sparks. In fact, is ANYONE grooving to the latest Idol winner's debut???Before we answer that, looks like "Man That Rocks the Cradle" will be a star vehicle for Samuel L. Jackson. Celluloid is based on a story revolving around an overworked husband and father of four who decides the solution to all his problems is a live-in nanny. Under his JacksonNew Line production company, Jackson will play the nanny.
Speaking of Samuel L. Jackson, he and Bernie Mac are set for 'Soul Men', a road trip comedy to be directed by Malcom Lee. The pair will play bickering backup soul singers who haven't spoken in 20 years but reluctantly travel cross country together for a tribute concert to honor their famous former band leader. Jackson and Mac will do their own musical and dancing performances.
Lee, who directed "The Best Man," "Undercover Brother" and "Roll Bounce," most recently completed "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," a comedy Lee also wrote; Martin Lawrence and Cedric the Entertainer star. Universal will release the pic in February.Not to be outdone, HBO Films is going to bat about a pic focusing on San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds. Bonds ended a season in which he broke baseball's all-time home run record only to be indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice charges for allegedly lying about steroid use. Story is based on the book "Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports." Bonds, facing arraignment in December, is characterized in "Game of Shadows" as a gifted player who made a deal with the devil type bargain to increase his power after watching bulked-up sluggers Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa race to break Maris' single-season record of 61 homers in 1998.
American Idol's Jordin Sparks certainly won't be breaking any records. In fact, folks are troubled over sales generated by Sparks' self-titled debut. Winner of the sixth and most recent season of "American Idol," and who many thought was the most marketable of the show's winners — has an album which has turned out the lowest first-week numbers of a debut issued by any of the show's previous winners.
Jordin Sparks enters next week's chart at #10 (the sole new release to crack the top 10) with little more than 119,100 sold. And for those of you still sold on OJ Simpson's innocence and want every insignificant detail about Orenthal, here you go. That said, are we really trying to punish him on this silly case for killing Nicole and Ron? What say you???Friday, November 23, 2007
Jesus Take The Wheel: Marion Jones Must Give-Up The Medals, Come Off Some Cash, And See An Orthodontist Immediately!
Marion We're Pissed At You, Let's Hug It OutBroke and humiliated, Marion Jones can longer even take solace in seeing her name beside her greatest feats in the record books. The International Association of Athletics Federation on Friday annulled all of the Black track star's results dating to September 2000, including her Olympic and world championship titles, because of admitted doping from illegal steroid use.
What's more, track and field's governing body also wants Jones to pay back about $700,000 of the sistahs winnings during that period. Talk about piling on, isn't it bad enough that her career is ovah and a prison sentence is still looming? Of course the final nail in the coffin is that the organization has also recommended that Jones' relay teammates be disqualified and lose their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
What's more, track and field's governing body also wants Jones to pay back about $700,000 of the sistahs winnings during that period. Talk about piling on, isn't it bad enough that her career is ovah and a prison sentence is still looming? Of course the final nail in the coffin is that the organization has also recommended that Jones' relay teammates be disqualified and lose their medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Is America Being Harder On High Profile Black Sports Figures?
For African American superstar athletes, this has not been a banner year. Michael Vick's dog case, Barry Bond's alleged perjury, the Isiah Thomas' sexual harassment verdict, Mike Tyson doing time in pink, Shaq's pending divorce, Adam "Pacman' Jones five arrests in two years, and of course everyone's favorite murderer, O.J. Simpson. We hate it when Black folks gloss over our issues and play victim in situations where we're just plain wrong. But since we keep it real here, let's just say that these stories have definitely spoiled our appetite for those Thanksgiving leftovers.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Church Bombing Killing 4 Alabama Little Girls Is Revisited As Pastor John H. Cross Jr. Dies At 82
Pastor of Church Bombed in 1963 Was A Hero
* Essence: 25 Most Influential of 2007
* Forty Acres And A Gap In Wealth???
* Clinton Library Highlights Black History: Coincidence?
* New Move to Bring Some Electricity to Africa
* R Kelly's Publicist Steps
* Black Is Clearly the New Green for Hollywood!
* Rip-off? Africa Vaccines 'Face 700% Mark-Up'
* Sharpton Eats James Brown's Thanksgiving Dinner
* Study: Lower Antidepressants Response for Blacks
* Essence: 25 Most Influential of 2007
* Forty Acres And A Gap In Wealth???
* Clinton Library Highlights Black History: Coincidence?
* New Move to Bring Some Electricity to Africa
* R Kelly's Publicist Steps
* Black Is Clearly the New Green for Hollywood!
* Rip-off? Africa Vaccines 'Face 700% Mark-Up'
* Sharpton Eats James Brown's Thanksgiving Dinner
* Study: Lower Antidepressants Response for Blacks
Thursday, November 15, 2007
BREAKING NEWS: BLACK HOMERUN KING BARRY BONDS INDICTED ON FEDERAL CHARGES
Is This Payback For Breaking Hank Aaron's Record, Or Is This Giant In Serious O.J. Trouble?
You knew it was coming and now it's official. Orenthal James has agreed to a plea deal! Yeah right.
Unfortunately, it's San Francisco's Barry Bonds who's next at bat as a Bay Area grand jury has indicted the 43-year-old home run champion on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.
The indictment comes after a four-year federal investigation into whether the brother lied to the grand jury probing steroid use by professional athletes. Just three months ago, Bonds surpassed legendary Hank Aaron's home run record, and was then promptly dismissed by the San Francisco Giants.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
BARRY BONDS' BALL #756 AND BUD SELIGS' NAME, BOTH WITH AN ASTRISK (*)
No farewell tour planned. No playoff/post season appearance, No World Series ring, No offers to play next year. But all is not lost Barry because some people, well one person is going through a lot to let you know how he really feels about you. Case in point ...
Fashion designer Marc Ecko, made a successful auction bid of $752,467 earlier this month for your record breaking ball #756.
He revealed Wednesday morning on NBC's "Today" show that more than 10 million votes were counted on his Web site and "Brand It" (with an asterisk) was the clear winner with nearly half the vote over "Bestow It" and "Banish It" (because of Bonds performance-enhancing drugs scandal), and then send it to the Baseball Hall of Fame.Ecko said that the marking of the ball will show future generations that we thought "this was a shrouded chapter of baseball history that wasn't necessarily the clearest it could be." But here is the kicker ... Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown Ohio, says it will accept the ball, with the asterisk stamped on it!
Who's to blame? Barry, Marc Eco, Idiots in Cooperstown, The anti-fans who voted this way ...
I say it is Bud Selig*, Major League Baseball Commissioner. It was he who accepted ramped steroid use in baseball to build it back up after the baseball strike. (Remember the much touted McGuire vs. Sosa home run race?)Selig* is the one who refused to stop the speculation, of how he himself felt about Barry and the home run record and attending the record breaking hit. Selig* has not spoke out against the asterisk on the ball. Commissioner Selig*, people are laughing but not at Barry. They are laughing at Major League Baseball.
So in the end when "your" picture goes up in Cooperstown an asterisk should go next to your picture. Because the most embarrassing time in all of baseball is under your watch.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Black 28-Year-Old Woman In Chicago Is Missing & We're All Looking For Her
Have You Seen Nailah Franklin?Two Students Shot at Delaware State University
Judge Denies Request to Free Jena Teen
Obama's Mother in New TV Ad
South Africa 'Devastated' by Halt of HIV Vaccine Trials
Subtle Racism Harasses Brain
Record Breaker Barry Bonds to Leave Giants
Black Victims of Crime Deserve Outrage, Too
Teens with Noose Hanging from Truck Arrested
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Barry Bonds Shows How to Make Your Haters, Your Motivators
Barry Bonds slammed a home run yesterday to make him the all time leading home run hitter, but many say this record comes with a "raised eyebrow."
The road to number 756 has been anything but smooth for Bonds as he has been dogged with rumors of steroid use. Sports commentator Bob Costas, a vocal critic, says “Just look at the graph. In his late 30's and early 40's it is evident that Bonds used performance enhancing drugs. This was his steroid era.”
But on the other side of the issue, Barry Bonds has strong supporters. Number one amongst them is the previous home run champ, Hank Aaron, who offered Bonds his congratulations: “You’re the king” he said in a video taped message.
Part of the reason the haters dog Bonds is his oftentimes cocky, sometimes to the point of arrogant, attitude toward the media.
He’s not cuddly like Babe Ruth or as smooth as Hank, but no one can deny the man can hit a baseball.
Whether he’s on steroids or not, it takes strength, determination, skill, timing and a dozen other factors to knock the skin off the ball the way he does.
And thus, he is the home run king. Congratulations my man.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
BLACK MEN TOP THE NEWS: BONDS TIES AARON, OBAMA HITS BACK AND CHAUNCEY BAILEY'S KILLER GETS BENCHED!
Bonds Whacks 755th Homer, Ties Black Icon Hank AaronForget R. Kelly, Katrina Evacuees Trapped in Trailers
Should More Black Women Think About 'Dating Out'
Black 19-Year-Old Confesses To Killing Oakland Journalist Stuffing Prisons With Black Men Or Have Brothers Given Up?
Nas Confirmed For Virginia Tech, Parents Not Happy
Obama Hits Back Over 'Lack Of Experience' Tag Gun Shots Erupt Over 50 Cent's Bling
Who Should Qualify For Slavery Reparations?
Court Sides With Congressman Jefferson On FBI Raid
YouTube Shows Aussie Ku Klux Klan 'Soldiers'
Viacom Owned VH-1 Orders More 'Flavor Of Love
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
BARRY BONDS HOPING FOR THE ULTIMATE B-DAY PRESENT
San Francisco slugger Barry Bonds turns 43 years old today. He’d love to celebrate by moving closer to — or making — history.
Bonds continues his quest to break Hank Aaron’s career home run record when the Giants continue their four-game series with the Atlanta Braves at AT&T Park.
Bonds has 753 homers, two shy of Aaron’s mark.
He homered twice at Wrigley Field on Thursday in a 9-8 loss to the Chicago Cubs, but has not connected since and has hit just those two home runs in his last 12 games.
Bonds continues his quest to break Hank Aaron’s career home run record when the Giants continue their four-game series with the Atlanta Braves at AT&T Park.
Bonds has 753 homers, two shy of Aaron’s mark.
He homered twice at Wrigley Field on Thursday in a 9-8 loss to the Chicago Cubs, but has not connected since and has hit just those two home runs in his last 12 games.
SPEAKING OF BONDS: EX-MISTRESS TO POSE FOR PLAYBOY
Barry Bonds’s former longtime girlfriend, Kimberly Bell, will appear nude in the November issue of Playboy, a spokeswoman for the magazine said yesterday in a telephone interview. The issue is expected to reach newsstands Oct. 1, right as baseball’s postseason is beginning.
Bell’s agent, David Hans Schmidt, said that in addition to the photographs would be an article detailing her “personal and sexual relationship” with Bonds.
Bonds is under investigation for charges he perjured himself in 2003 when he said he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs. The federal government is also looking into tax evasion charges.
Bell, who said she dated Bonds from 1994 to 2003, is one of at least two key witnesses to testify in front of an earlier grand jury about Bonds.
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Bell’s agent, David Hans Schmidt, said that in addition to the photographs would be an article detailing her “personal and sexual relationship” with Bonds.
Bonds is under investigation for charges he perjured himself in 2003 when he said he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs. The federal government is also looking into tax evasion charges.
Bell, who said she dated Bonds from 1994 to 2003, is one of at least two key witnesses to testify in front of an earlier grand jury about Bonds.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
AS BASEBALL SLUGGER BARRY BONDS EDGES CLOSER TO HANK'S RECORD, HIS TEAM'S GETTING SLAMMED!
Bonds Slams 2 Home Runs, Trails Aaron by 2. Is He A Giant Among Men, Or Giant Drug Abuser?
CHICAGO - Those commemorative balls are now being worked in for Barry Bonds, who's right on the cusp of making history — and breaking the most hallowed record in sports.
For better or worse, the controversial San Francisco superstar -- despised by some for alleged anabolic steroid use -- has come to terms with his destiny.
“It’s real now,” Bonds said after hitting his 752nd and 753rd home runs Thursday in the San Francisco Giants’ 9-8 loss to the Chicago Cubs.
On Friday, the quest moves to Miller Park in Milwaukee, the city where Aaron started and ended his career. It’s also the home of commissioner Bud Selig, who hasn’t said whether he’ll be in the seats as the brother attempts to make history.
“It doesn’t mean anything different than anywhere else,” Bonds said of playing in Aaron’s town. “Right now, I just feel good..."
He hit two more over the fences and, suddenly, is just two swings from tying Hank Aaron. It was Bonds’ 71st multihomer game, second behind Babe Ruth’s 72, and second this season.
The games are bittersweet, however, with even Bonds having a tough time enjoying the home runs with the last-place Giants losing day after day.
“Obviously he’s our guy who’s going to produce,” losing pitcher Matt Morris said. “I don’t know what the goal here is anymore — to win games? He’s our biggest threat. Today he produced and it still wasn’t good enough. I think it’s more about how we’re playing than what Barry’s got going on the side. That is something he’s been dealing with... We’re almost waiting to get it over with.”
Monday, July 16, 2007
ONE BLACK MAN TAKES A SWING AT BARRY BONDS: FOUL BALL OR HOMERUN?
Bryan Burwell, MSNBC Contributor
Nothing is simple as it used to be with Barry Bonds, not the hatred or the love, not the villainy or the celebrity. As he edges closer and closer to erasing one of the most iconic numbers in American sports, somehow everything that used to seem so obvious about baseball’s most polarizing figure — good versus evil, right vs. wrong — has been blurred beyond recognition.
In San Francisco this week during baseball’s All-Star Game festivities, Bonds was surrounded by a fascinating coterie of love and support. His all-star peers all but genuflected in his presence. The fans in his hometown ballpark, AT&T Park, cascaded him with love and cheers. If you had traveled across the galaxy and landed in this place with no historical context to the Giants slugger, you would have believed this man was the sport’s most famous star, not its most infamous scoundrel.
And now there is an even more confusing plot twist, as he nears Hank Aaron’s all-time home run mark: somehow Bonds has evolved from villain to victim.
“I like Barry Bonds and I find the press coverage of him to be incredibly one-sided. Just because he won't play nice with reporters, you folks have vilified him… It still has not been proven that Bonds took steroids. Even if he did, who cares?”
E-mails like these come flooding in from across the country whenever I write a column daring to question the legitimacy of the Giants slugger and his chemically-enhanced pursuit of Henry Aaron’s all-time home run record. The tone of these emails are frighteningly similar to the ones that came following any column I wrote criticizing Mark McGwire and his steroid-tainted legitimacy.
These passionate, yet ill-informed pockets of support seem to suggest that we should ignore the obvious — that the reputations of baseball’s biggest stars and the validity of its most honored records are being tainted by magic potions, imaginative chemists and their muscle-bound lab experiments/athletes. In their eyes, Bonds, much like McGwire, is a persecuted casualty of the sports media’s war on drugs.
In their eyes, Bonds is a victim of a sinister conspiracy. It’s the media. It’s racially inspired. They tell you it’s a senseless chase and a victimless crime. But mostly what they’re saying is that they only care if the cheater is from another town, another team or another country, which is another way of reciting the ultimate modern sports fan’s new creed:
“We know he might be a lying, cheating, muscle-bound fraud with a syringe stuck in his butt. But he’s OUR lying, cheating, muscle-bound fraud with a syringe stuck in his butt.”
So everyone finds a way to twist the truth and fudge reality. And the latest episode in the Barry Bonds Second to One Reality Show is this galling plot twist: How did Bonds suddenly become a martyr for the civil rights movement? Better yet, how did this lifetime brother of convenience suddenly become the Jack Johnson of his generation, while at the same time Hank Aaron — one of the most legitimate American sports heroes of this or any generation — ends up getting painted as some racial sellout?
Lately I have been getting a lot of e-mails from young black men who are mad with Aaron and claim he is the bad guy because he has chosen not sanction an admitted drug cheat who is on the verge of breaking his record.
Oh brother, please.
Anyone who honestly thinks that Aaron is the bad guy and Bonds is the tragic victim either has absolutely no sense of American history, or is a complete idiot.
OK, I know what I’ve done. I’ve just fired the loaded gun. I know exactly where this is about to lead. It’s leading to a barrage of “sellout” and “Uncle Tom” nonsense from folks who are anxious to misuse America’s most lethal weapon of mass distraction: race.
Friday, July 6, 2007
BARRY BONDS DON'T YOU DARE PUNK OUT OF THE ALL-STAR HOME RUN DERBY
Let me make this clear: I don't like Barry Bonds. I believe he cheating the game of baseball and is poised to break Hank Aaron's record only because he used illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Making matters even worse, he doesn't speak to the media frequently, and is a jerk to people on and off the field.
But if the guy supposedly got voted into the All-Star game by the fans, and if he's about to break the record without us being able to do anything about it, then the least he can do is put on a show for the fans at his home park.
Yes, you heard me correctly. Barry Bonds owes it to the fans and to baseball to participate in the Home Run Derby at AT&T Park. He has no excuse not to.
His team is terrible, and definitely out of the race. He's also at 751 meaning he's close enough to the record where even if he goes in a Bobby Abreu post-derby slump, he can still break the all-time record. He has admitted to taking flaxseed oil -- and based on Game of Shadows, he took performance-enhancers for himself -- to get better and compete with inferior players who had usurped his play on the field. It was not to make money or to entertain fans, it was to be better than everyone else.
So for once, Barry, I implore you, do what's right. Participate in the Home Run Derby. Your performance-enhancing substance displays of power on the field have no place in games that matter. In an exhibition designed solely for purposes of pure fan entertainment, they're perfect. We know you're going to break the record.
The least you can do is go out with a bang, slugging in the derby in your home park. If you don't do it, you'll be proving once again to everyone out there that you're a jerk. You have no reason not to participate, so do what's right, and give the fans a thrill. It's the least you can do.
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