Boss’s Boycott: The Bonds Vanishes By Dave Zirin

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Rounding The Bases: Only Stalinists Hate Bonds
Published 5/14/2008 by David Chalk at Bugs & Cranks
... “If you’re happy Barry Bonds isn’t playing this year, you’re just as bad as Josef Stalin.” –Dave Zirin [The Starting Five] ...

Zirin: Boss’s Boycott: The Bonds Vanishes
Published 5/14/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Zirin: Boss’s Boycott: The Bonds Vanishes More fun than the Trotsky Icepick solving the Ultraviolet Catastrophe!...It’s the latest from Dave Zirin. Meet Barry Bonds, the Leon Trotsky of Major League Baseball. In 2007 Bonds broke the most hallowed record in sports, passing Henry Aaron’s record for home runs. When he wasn’t injured, this maestro of the batter’s box packed San Francisco’s ballpark, despite a team that stank like cottage cheese left on a radiator. At season’s end, the Giants refused to re-sign him, with owner Peter Magowan saying, “We’re going in a new direction; ...

A Complete Lack of Evidence: The Surest Sign a Conpiracy is Afoot.
Published 5/14/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
... Dave Zirin wants to know where the outrage is over Barry Bonds' absence from a major league roster, and he doesn't mince words in wondering: ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, May 14
Published 5/15/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... . It came in response to Dave Zirin of the blog The Starting Five calling the Bonds saga a "case of blackballing so obvious it would shame a Dartmouth frat house." ...