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  • Bad cameo in horror flick (MARIOTTI IS BARRY APOPLECTIC AT MICHAEL JORDAN'S SELLOUT)

    07/29/2007 2:29:48 PM PDT · by Chi-townChief · 32 replies · 1,093+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 29, 2007 | BY JAY MARIOTTI Sun-Times Columnist
    The Natural -- Michael Jordan -- should know better than to give Barry Bonds a video salute after slugger's 754th homer SAN FRANCISCO -- He was real. He was natural. His muscular definition, by all accounts, was developed in weight rooms and not in some science lab. His only competitive sin on the court was trying to destroy one's dignity, and when you ponder it all, Michael Jordan's magnificent legacy only should be enhanced by the sleaze surrounding Barry Bonds. So why, after Bonds ripped his 754th home run at AT&T Park, would a tribute from Jordan suddenly appear on...
  • Bonds at Wrigley: Seeing is grieving (BARRY-MANIA (BONDS NOT OBAMA) GOES WILD IN CHICAGO)

    07/20/2007 9:07:10 AM PDT · by Chi-townChief · 38 replies · 849+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 20, 2007 | JAY MARIOTTI Sun-Times Columnist
    As the ball ripped through the summer sky, much like a syringe injected into soft tissue, a spooky sense of finality settled over Wrigley Field. The villain is going to win, isn't he? A grand jury can't stop him, the commissioner can't stop him, old age can't stop him, and the weight of overwhelming public disapproval can't stop him. Barry Bonds, creep of creeps, is about to own the mother of all baseball records. And there's nothing we can do about it except watch and grow physically ill. ''Fans like the game of baseball, regardless of what you guys are...