Here is the opening to my Friday column explaining why I refuse to vote for Barry Bonds for the Hall of Fame: I am writing about Barry Bonds and why, at this time, I don't plan to vote for him for the Baseball Hall of Fame. It is not the [...]
We've been having an interesting discussion all day about steroids and the baseball hall of fame and about Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. These are very difficult issues and I sincerely appreciate your insights and input. One argument bothers me -- I don't find it cogent -- and I want [...]
This Hall of Fame voting is so troubling when it comes to great players who may have cheated by using steroids, etc. I struggle with this. I really do. Let's put aside the case of Roger Clemens, for a moment. There will be plenty of time to discuss him. Let's [...]
Barry Bonds was at the Giants game on Monday on some sort of political junket. He's trying to shine up his image or promote himself for the Hall of Fame or get a job with the Giants. I don't know. He made himself available to sportswriters. I did not make [...]
Here is a link to my Thursday column, the first I've written in a week. It concerns the Oakland A's and their signing of Manny Ramirez, twice busted for illegal use of performance enhancing drugs, and very old on top of that. I believe it was a great idea for [...]
I attended the Barry Bonds pseudo sentencing today and wrote a column on his sentencing that really wasn't a sentencing. Did you know his house has ten bathrooms? He'll have lots of choices in his house arrest, if he ever has to serve his sentence for house arrest -- 30 [...]
I am in the press room at the federal courthouse in San Francisco for the Barry Bonds sentencing. It will take place in about 75 minutes (11:00 a.m.) and I expect he will get probation with house arrest for a few months. I don't expect the home-run kind to do [...]
That's quite an interesting debate we have going on the Zohn re: Barry Bonds. I was sarcastic about his face and his virtue and many of you called me on it. Good. So let's keep going. What are the primary defenses of Bonds? 1. Everyone else did it so why [...]
I am watching the Giants game on television and they just showed the beloved Barry Bonds, that paragon of virtue, sitting in the box seats. The beloved Barry looked well and his face was a lot thinner than I remember it being. I just can't imagine why. Maybe he went [...]
Grant wrote a long piece on bats for ComcastSportsNet BayArea. It's his first extended feature. He interviewed a bunch of major leaguers about their bats -- which make and model they use and why. He asked if they share bats or don't, if they use more than one model. He [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.