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Rants and raves concerning America's pastime, Major League Baseball. FIRST OF ALL, I would like to start of this newly re-vamped version of my Mejor League Beisbol website by announcing to the world that BARRY BONDS IS NOT GOD!!!!! Now, I know this may come as a shock to some of you, who have been spoon-fed whatever politically correct CRAP and over-hype major networks tell you, but I stand by EVERY WORD on this website, so my sports section would be NO DIFFERENT. And for those of you who would say that my animosity towards Bonds exists solely because, as a Dodgers fan and living in the LA area all my life, I spent three years in the "greater" Bay Area and suffering through the Giants-centered-culture, you are WRONG. That is merely fuel for the fire. BUT I DIGRESS. Barry Bonds is NOT the Home Run King, that honor is reserved ONLY for Mark McGwire, also known as the Man Who Saved Baseball. 1) McGwire didn't have some chump team serve up to him more times than McDonald's, as Barry did with the SAN DIEGO MADRES. Madres home runs are a dime a dozen; so the 12 or 13 Bonds hit off them are only worth 4 REAL home runs. Don't believe me? They served up one this year to HIDEO NOMO, possibly the worst hitting Dodger PITCHER of the last 20 years!!! 2) McGwire didn't play in short-porch Ding-Dong Park, a park constructed solely so Bonds could swing every other pitch into McCovey Cove. Their short porch in right field (becoming more and more common in the newer parks, and as the Yankees placed the monuments behind a newer, closer outfield wall...) is...brace yourself...a mere THREE-HUNDRED NINE (309) FEET FROM HOME PLATE!!! McGwire's record breaking blast (#62, lest we forget so quickly) BARELY made it over the left field wall at Busch Stadium, traveling 341 feet. 3) McGwire's family had class; you didn't see his son in the stadium with a sign "Please pitch to our daddy." That was the MOST PATHETIC DISPLAY IN THE HISTORY OF SPORTS. If you need a child to go out there and beg the opposing team to pitch to you to get a record, you don't deserve it in the first place. And finally, 4) the issue of STEROIDS. McGwire took Andro until the point where his celebrity was too large, at which point children might emulate him, and he stopped taking it. I can't say for certain that Bonds took steroids, but you don't hit 49 home runs one season and 73 the next without some sort of help. Tell me this, though; if the steroid controversy hadn't erupted in baseball, and he WASN'T taking them and backed off, why did the "supposed greatest hitter in the game" only hit 46 home runs the year after his bloated 73? At least McGwire was CONSISTENT. But enough about Bonds, there are more important issues at hand. THAT DAMN RALLY MONKEY. I USED to like the ANGELS when they were the CALIFORNIA ANGELS, but when Disney bought them and they "sold out" to be called the Anaheim Angels, I backed away. (Besides, they were increasingly a thorn in the side of my AL team, the Athletics, and the Mariners and my boy ICHIRO.) I am VERY PLEASED they beat the GIANTS. Although for those of you who are Dodger haters and think the Angels are the best team in LA outside of this year, remember that IT TOOK A DODGER (MIKE SCIOSCIA) to lead you to the "promised land." But WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE THE RALLY MONKEY??? I'm surprised that no political correctness groups have complained about it being offensive. If the Burning of the Bruin is offensive, why isn't the Rally Monkey? Why not the host of other Super Simians my Uncle and I came up with? The "Come From Behind Gorilla (Ouch!!)? The "Hustling Homosapien"? The "Chargin' Chimp"? Anyway, congratulations to the CALIFORNIA Angels for taking the crown this year! M-uh...T...LOL...um...M...E...Oh forget it. If METS PLAYERS are too high to do their own damn cheer, why should I? I actually picked this team to give the Braves a run for their money and take the division, until Afroman's stash mysteriously ended up in the Mets' locker room. BOOBY VALENTINE, how on earth can you let a PROFESSIONAL organization go down the crapper and let your team get high? I can maybe understand once a month as a "reward" for getting a, say, .650 winning percentage, but damned if THAT ever happened. Most of the players were too stoned to care, anyway. So why is it that only the coach gets the axe? I think the players should be disciplined, too. The NEW coach certainly isn't going to put up with any of that BS... Finally, some miscellaneous notes and gripes...All the A's had to do was give GIAMBI a no-trade clause and he would have stayed, but ERIC CHAVEZ certainly did more than enough to fill his shoes as team leader...the DIAMONDHACKS proved that they were one-and-out, DESPITE having the #1 and 1A pitchers in baseball...the MARINERS piss me off; how can you win 116 games one year and not even make the playoffs the next???...will the MADRES EVER get a pitching staff?...CONGRATULATIONS to the owners, who FINALLY won a labor dispute, and avoided a work stoppage; and to the TWINS and EXPOS, who will NOT be contracted (at least until 2007); wouldn't it have been poetic justice to shove that up Selig's @$$ and have one of those two win the World Series?...And I will end with a moment of silence for Darryl Kyle, who died much too young. Benma 1/2's Spring Splash II (BSSII) (c). Anything Goes School of Masquerade Arts (AGSMA) (c). 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