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Bad for Baseball

Albert Pujols is on the 15 day DL. This is not a good thing for baseball. Pujols was slowly, but surely, knocking on the door to Bonds' single-season HR record, and the best thing for baseball right now would have been for that record to fall. Instead, we are left with Bonds continuing on towards #1 on the all-time HR list (someone, please stop him), and maintaining his single-season record.

Let's ignore all of the steroid stuff, forget that's even an "*" on whole story. Bonds is an arrogant, anti-fan a$$. (I think that he must have been drunk or something when he was nice to the guy that caught #715 - or whatever number it was, I stopped paying attention - while in line to buy a beer. Or else his agent threatened to poke him in the eyes if he didn't act like a human being for once.) Pujols is probably not an angel (in fact, he's a Cardinal...oh I'm too funny), but at least he doesn't cause a scene every where he goes.

A minimum of 2 weeks off will do great damage to Pujols mostly unnoticed run to the record. But even more damage to a sport that needs to start erasing Bonds' name from the top of record lists.

posted by Steph @ 6:48 PM