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So…

Barry Bonds held some press conference this week, during which he announced that he may be sitting out for half, if not the entire, baseball season next year.

He said it was because of this surgery, and that his old age just would not allow him to recuperate at a rate a younger body could. Thus, he would be forced to sit on the sidelines while his teammates played.

Barry Bonds, leaning on his crutches and sitting next to his son, kept repeating over and over again, “I’m tired…I’m tired…you pushed me over the edge.”

Now, I know nothing about baseball and that means that I have no idea how great a player this Barry Bonds person is. I do, however, know a whiner when I see one. And this Barry Bonds epitomizes the very essence of a whiner.

Here’s what I really think he’s trying to do:

The man openly admitted to using steroids during his baseball career. That means that for however many seasons he has left, every single one of his actions will be scrutinized by the media and baseball fans. If he plays as well as he did before this steroid business came out, people will assume he’s still using drugs. But that’s not what he’s concerned about.

What’s he really worried about is how he will play without the help of drugs. He wouldn’t be the man everything thought he was—he might actually just be an average baseball player. And when he starts playing as an average baseball player, everyone will realize that his former self was just an illusion built on a foundation of performance-enhancing drugs and lies.

So rather than face the possibility of having his mediocre skills coming out in a public forum (like a baseball field), he’d rather cough it up to his injuries and threaten retirement because the media forced him to. But deep down inside that’s his easy way out of a mess he put himself in.

But it is just easier to blame the media for your downfall, rather than take responsibility for your own foolish judgment. Just like Milli Vanilli when they won the Grammy, Barry Bonds should have realized that the minute he reached a climax in his career, his credibility as a baseball player was going to be reexamined under a microscope.