Barry Bonds: LA Dodgers Deny Free Speech
August 2, 2007At the Dodger game last night, the right field pavilion was packed with fans cheering the Dodgers and lustily booing Barry Bonds whenever he took the field or got to the plate. Like many others, we were willing to profit off the a-hole. We brought our gloves in hopes of the “money ball“, Barry’s 755th.
Gloves and booing were fine. What apparently wasn’t fine were fans with signs denouncing Barry Bonds. We watched Dodger ushers usher out a fan who unfurled a paper sign with an asterisk *, saying Bonds’ steroid-fueled feat should forever be questioned in baseball’s record books. Another fan screamed, “Welcome to America, where you can say what you want.”
I call bullshit on the AP and SI.Com for their typical Los Angeles-bashing; “On Wednesday, Bonds got ridiculed right along with the Laker Girls. He shouldn’t feel so bad. At Dodger Stadium, this is just what they do - and he’s used to it.”
Nonsense. Dodger fans hate the Giants and despise Bonds, but we lust after our Laker Girls–if the AP can’t recognize a horny chant they should find another line of work.