The Arbitrary ChuckJerry

...because Barry Bonds isn't coming back. Barry says he's likely out for the entire season after having three knee surgeries since January. Bonds turned 41 last week and is planning on being back next season to break some records.

This is all working out nicely for my conspiracy theory. I had said that baseball was pressuring Barry not to return to baseball since the last thing they want is for him to break the home run record and cheapen its meaning.

Guys are talking about leaving Rafael Palmeiro out of the hall of fame despite him being one of only four players in history to have 3,000 hits and 500 home runs. We can only assume that the general feeling about Barry is the same, even though he's never officially tested positive for steroid use. At this point it seems to be one of the worst kept secrets in sports.

Anyhow, I don't have anything against Barry Bonds, per se, and he was a Hall of Famer before his power surge, but I would not feel the same about the game of baseball if Barry was the all time home run leader. That record would essentially mean nothing to me if Barry had it. That is less an indictment of Barry Bonds, and more of an indictment against Bud Selig, the commissioner of baseball, who would be the biggest jackass on Earth if he allows Bonds to break this record.