Tony Massarotti in the Boston Herald thinks Barry Bonds knees are just punishment for taking steroids. I’m not quite into the whole Karmic justice thing (after all, Michael Jackson will go free), but I am sensing this may be the best outcome.
Despite years of good upbringing telling me not to wish injury on the opponents’ team, if Barry Bonds has to end his career now, he can end it pretty much as it was: a long, very productive and controversial career with prodigious numbers making him one of the best players of the modern era. We won’t have to have a debate about whether to asterisk Bonds’ home run total (only baseball can make “asterisk a verb). We won’t wonder how many home runs Babe Ruth and hank Aaron would’ve hit with the aid of BALCO. We won’t make Bonds answer the questions.
Instead Bonds can retire, baseball can move on from the steroid era, and baseball writers can stop writing what a jerk Bonds is. Everyone wins.
But only if Bonds’ injury ends his career. I’m not supposed to root for that.
