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I have long believed that Bonds's "injury" that kept him out of most of last year was a deal with baseball for it to be a "win-win". Bonds get's 700 and goes to the Hall and baseball doesn't get the huge black eye. Now with Bonds back and set to break both Ruth and Aaron's records this year, the information suddenly "appears" just prior to the season. Funny how that works.....and yet another reason I no longer watch Major League Baseball.

I frimly believe that Major League Baseball has never recovered from the 1994 strike. That was the last year I paid my way into a big-league game (I did go to one game on a company outing, though), and I maintained a semi-disinterested detachment from the game even as my formerly beloved Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in professional sports over the last 12 years.

MLB basically looked the other way as steroid use became widespread in the 1990s -- mainly because ridiculous offensive numbers were good for business.

Kirby Puckett, Don Mattingly, Ozzie Smith, and Tony Gwynn . . . baseball lost a bit of its nostalgic charm with each of these retirements, and it's never been the same since.

and yet another reason I no longer watch Major League Baseball.

For me it has to do with 2 decades of the worst pitching in the league by the Detroit Tigers.