Baseball, Bonds and Haiku
baseball is nervous
roids probe makes for sweaty pits
the Mitchum Report
A bit of the past is in order here.
Looks like George Mitchell has accomplished one thing. He has popped the swollen bladder of hot air surrounding Barry Bonds, including the carbon dioxide emissions emanating from Bonds himself through the whole saga.
There is still a perjury trial coming, and again, if he did it, throw him in prison with Martha Stewart and other court-proven liars.
However, Bonds is still a deserving candidate for Cooperstown, and suddenly, post-Mitchell Report, his enshrinement is a whole lot more acceptable.
Even though he is named in the report, his Hall of Fame future was more in doubt prior to it. He was too easy a target for those in baseball with a penchant for preachiness and snobbery. Which is to say, pretty much everybody with a Cooperstown vote.
But with titanic names like Clemens, Pettitte, Tejada and others popping out of the former senator's 409-page rubber glove, fairness has an exhaust vent to let out the poisonous atmosphere infusing the perception of Bonds that had been building since home run number 756.
Bonds is no longer the Steroid Monster...because he's not alone. Now, he's just another zombie in baseball's Dawn of the Dead.
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