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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Bonds is a b!tch?

By Tangotiger, 10:25 AM

I remember reading a story about the women’s Olympic soccer team in SI several years ago, and they had a really good player, but no one was passing her the ball.  The coach confronted his other players and he asked the girls why they didn’t.  They told him that she was a b!tch.  The coach was perplexed and said: “Yeah, so?”.  And that is the difference he was faced with in gender.  Male teammates will play, pass to, and generally be teammates with murderers, rapists, drug abusers, and wife-beaters.  There is basically nothing that a male athlete can do, that another male athlete can’t overlook, on a personal level, if it means a W in the standings.  In the case of this women’s Olympic soccer team, this was far from that case.  Just being a b!tch was enough to be a pariah.  To be clear, I’m not denigrating women or men here.  Just pointing out something on a behavioural basis.  I’m sure Pizza Cutter can give us his insights on the matter.

Why are MLB teams treating Bonds like the US Women’s soccer team treated its star player?  Has the totality of the personal experience of Barry Bonds crossed over the murderer, rapist, wife-beater line?  Really?  I mean, really?  That’s my argument here: really?

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