The public has spoken! Last week Barry Bonds called Marc Ecko an “idiot” for letting the fans decide the fate of his 756th home run ball. Well, we did decide and now the $700,000 baseball artifact will be shipped to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY with a big old asterisk branded on it!

Like many baseball-loving Americans I think Bonds, and not Ecko, should feel like the real idiot here. He broke one of the most coveted records in sports while cheating and now we will forever make note of that. You can’t beat that with a bat.

Every sports fan has an opinion on whether of not Barry Bonds is a cheater.

Watch ESPN’s media blitz for 10 minutes and you will know what I’m talking about. Bonds just broke the most coveted records in all of sports and the media can’t seem to redirect their news fiending boner away from the fact that the guy potentially cheated.

Are American’s really fired up about Bonds cheating or is this just another case of the media force feeding us “controversial” topics to drum up ratings? I decided to hit the streets and ask some every day Joe’s whether or not they think Bonds is a cheater and why.

Here’s what I found… (more…)

SAN DIEGO — At 7:29 p.m. local time Saturday, in the top of the second inning, Barry Bonds hit career home run No. 755 off Padres pitcher Clay Hensley. It was the first home run he had ever hit off Hensley, who became the 445th different major league pitcher to surrender a home run to Bonds.

It came on a 2-1 pitch, a 91-mph fastball. The swing was clean and true, hands back, head in, follow-through a study in grace and power. The crack of the bat was sharp, familiar, prodigious. The ball flew 382 feet on a low, sharp line to the opposite field, over the left-field fence and off the facing of the second deck of seats at San Diego’s Petco Park.

The sellout crowd came to its feet — some cheering, some booing. Bonds’ teammates burst from the dugout to await him at home plate, and he circled the bases quickly, clapping his hands on his way to first, and slapping a celebratory high-five with Giants coach Tim Flannery as he made his way around third base.

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It’s the top of the ninth. The bases are juiced with two outs and you’re down by one. The crowd’s making it no surprise who’s up to bat next. Everyone from the grounds crew to Grandma Ellen are on there feet chanting at the decibel level nothing short of a Boeing 747 at takeoff. As number 25 steps out of the on deck circle and moves closer and closer to home plate, the 40,800 fans at AT&T Park start chanting,”BARRRRRYYY, BARRRRRRY, BARRRRRRY”.

Barry Bonds steps to the plate and immediately thousands of cameras go off at the same time. The flashes are so blinding that the pitcher looses consciousness for a split second and thinks to himself “this it is. I’m dead, and I’m following the light to God.” Then suddenly, like a kick to the head, he realizes where he is and what he has to do. As the pitcher steps back onto the mound, awaiting the sign from the catcher, there’s only one thing going through his head. Normally he’d be thinking about “Which lucky dancer at the Eager Beaver he’ll bring back to his five star, luxurious hotel suit later that night” but tonight it’s “Barry Bonds is sitting on 755 homeruns and there’s no way in hell I’m going to remembered as the next Al Downingâ€? (for those of you living on Mars, Al Downing is the pitcher who gave up Hank Aarons 715 homerun to surpass Babe Ruth). (more…)