Polishing the Lie: The Barry Bonds Statue
and Baseball’s Broken Soul
Posted By: Hazymac, 6/27/2025 12:44:48 PM
They’re building a statue. Not for Hank Aaron. Not for a war hero, a humanitarian, or a man who walked clean through the game. But for Barry Bonds. Let that sit for a second. The San Francisco Giants will install it outside Oracle Park, treating it like a crown jewel. A monument not just to what he did but to how he did it and how everyone around him pretended not to notice. The fans. The press. The suits. All of them. And now they’re going to bronze it. I remember what he looked like in the ’90s. Lean. Fast. A five-tool player who could steal a bag and hit all fields.
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That’s Selena Zito’s take, and I fully agree with her.
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To borrow a phrase from a writer many of my radical colleagues love to cite, the chickens are coming home to roost at colleges and universities around the country.
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The Week In Pictures: Bombs Away Edition
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The big news story of the week was America’s stunningly executed devastation of Iran’s nuclear program–a program to which Barack Obama donated billions of dollars, and which other presidents had been willing to tolerate. The raid was carried out in complete secrecy, with President Trump’s Truth Social post, shortly after B-2 bombers had exited Iranian air space, the first word anyone had. Democrats complained that they hadn’t been told in advance, but everyone knew why: they would have leaked information about the raid and destroyed the element of surprise.
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June 27 really needs to be a national holiday wherein we collectively observe the bottomless depravity of the dying news media. We could call it something like “Biden Debate Day.”
The date is significant because it was the start of a 131-day journey that showed just how far the media were willing to go to steal an election. June 27 was the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, or as I like to recall it, “The day the media knew Biden had to go.”
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They’re building a statue. Not for Hank Aaron. Not for a war hero, a humanitarian, or a man who walked clean through the game. But for Barry Bonds.
Let that sit for a second.
The San Francisco Giants will install it outside Oracle Park, treating it like a crown jewel. A monument not just to what he did but to how he did it and how everyone around him pretended not to notice. The fans. The press. The suits. All of them.
And now they’re going to bronze it.
I remember what he looked like in the ’90s. Lean. Fast. A five-tool player who could steal a bag and hit all fields.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom sued Fox News on Friday, seeking damages of at least $787 million from the conservative network for allegedly defaming him in misleading comments about a phone call with President Donald Trump.
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Why Would Anyone Vote for These People?
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Think about this for a second, and I mean that: Is there anything good Democrats have added to your life? I’m not talking about “Democrats” ever – Thomas Jefferson having existed is obviously an easy net-plus for everyone’s life – but the current crop of Democrats who exist in Washington, DC, and pretty much anywhere else. The answer is no.
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Cat fight at the Supreme Court!
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Washington Post Pulitzer Prize Winner
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Per the press release:
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