Bonds Rage
A frustrated and melancholy Barry Bonds announced to the media yesterday that the rehab from his latest knee surgery could possibly keep him out for all of the 2005 MLB season. The following are some quotes from his address:
- “You guys wanted to hurt me bad enough, you finally got me.”
- “You wanted me to jump off a bridge, I finally did.”
- “You finally brought me and my family down.”
The “you” in this case was the media.
I have some news for you, Mr. Bonds. The media isn’t to blame for your troubles. True, the media has been on your case through most of your career and especially in the last year since your name is at the center of the Balco hearing and steroids rumors. But they’re just doing their job which is to follow the story. If any of them have wished you ill, either privately or through their reporting, it’s probably because you never treated them professionally. The media didn’t make you have an extramarital affair. The media never made you allegedly take steroids. The media didn’t injure your knee.
A wise man once told me “you only have yourself to blame for the things that befall you in life” and when you’re a public figure things get magnified. By this point in your career I’d expect you to realize that and use the media to your advantage instead of looking like an ass by publicly ridiculing them.
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