Via The Athletic:
“A death sentence. That’s what they’ve given me,” Bonds said.
“A ghost in a big empty house, just rattling around,” he said.
He said he doesn’t need a plaque in Cooperstown to validate a career that includes 762 home runs and a record-setting seven league MVP awards. (And because his support among voters appeared to stall out at 60.7 percent in his third-to-last appearance on the ballot in January, it’s a longshot that he will ever reach the 75 percent threshold for induction.)
Nor would opening the doors to the Hall of Fame repair what Bonds described as a heart broken by baseball.
“If they don’t want me, just say you don’t want me and be done with it,” he said. “Just be done with it.”
No one feels sorry for Barry Bonds.
He made a choice that resulted in the most outlandish numbers ever seen in the history of baseball.
And now he can just deal with it.
You can’t have your cake and it eat it to. . .
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