When Larry King pioneered the concept of hosting a talk show, on cable TV alnight, we, the  listeners all thought we will get intelligence incessantly on the airways. It was an  interesting time.

Throughout the reign of the Clinton Presidency, the talk show programs  were entertaining and educational. We were forced to think just to stay with conversation. It was as if the Leader in the white house was influencing an aura of national intelligence.

Since 2000, and the coronation of George Bush, the level of intelligent discussion within the industry of talk shows has slid so low that moronism took over as a style of presenting analysis and information. The guys has become so bad it reminds of  the student who was perennially embarrassing the class with duncey-head answers to the teachers questions , who are now opinion leaders on talk shows.

You know  that student who was in sixth grade , where the teacher would talk and talk about the Earth , the Five  continents and the Seven  Seas that make up this Planet. The teacher will,  just before the period ends,  throw out a question to test the class , on what was lectured ,the last 40 minutes. She will scan the back of the class and choose "Mike ", to ask .... How many Seas are there in the world....?

The room will go dead silent ... hoping for redemption...  hoping for the right answer, but they all snickered when "Mike" said....eight.

It is the 'Mikes' of the classroom we now have as opinion leaders in talk shows , particularly Sports talk shows. The crudely childlike discussions that normally goes on is exemplified when the topic includes the name BARRY BONDS.  .

Originally I did not follow baseball, until the phrase .."from worse to first" caught my attention, as the Braves began their magnificent decade and a half rule.

In between, I became aware of the name Barry Bonds. he was the 30/30 man, the best player in Baseball. Then we were told "chicks like the long ball".That was a marketing/promotional calling in support of the POWER GAME.  But Barry Bonds  was a black man who saw and experienced racial predjudiced  and refused  to  play bullshit games. So  Barry was not liked by the King maker sports Journalists.  He was targetted as the expendable fall guy if the "shit ever hit the fan".  When it did, and the race was on to displace blame.

First the ball was questioned as being juiced when the total number of home runs increased tremendously. Then the bats were criticized for being jumpy.

Eventually the players were suspected of being high tech in their preparation. Of course, this upsurge of the power game in Baseball filled the stadiums and brought folks like me , who previously followed mainly basketball and track and field, to religiously follow Baseball.

This is context in which  uncontrolled use of stimulants was taken by players to keep up in the power game. A feature marketed and promoted by Owners and Officials. In the aftermath of the exposure, all Baseball could and should have done was to issue a decree forbiding the use of stimulants and establish a screening method to stamp out the practice. But no, they had to find a black man to use as a scape goat to distract the shame Baseball and their owners felt for using such a tactic to market their product.

To crystallize the distraction , it appeared that talk show personlities were following a prearranged plan to heap the responsibility for the success of the Power Period on BARRY BONDS.  Suddenly we found out that Barry Bonds did not trust most of the sporting journalists particularly white and establishment mouth pieces.

Apparently Barry Bonds refused to play kiss ass with these premadonnas , who threatened to use their prejudiced jilted pens , with the nod of approval coming from  Baseball's officialdom, to undermine Barry Bonds credibility in the baseball world.  The plan backfired , just as the plan to make segregation the law of the land. Two million fans voted Barry Bonds into the All Star game.

The black man , triumphed again. The talk show personalities, such as the "Pimp in the Box" , Jim Rome, Michael Wilbon and the Orlando sentinel's Mike Bianchi and his cohorts at the  740the team radio morning show, tried to lynch and hang another African American under the protective cover of anti steroidism and correctness.

Everyday we are fed another bundle of bullshit and misinformation only about  Barry Bonds steroids abuse, not just steroids use. With all the accessibilty , we have never had the privilege of hearing from doctors and nutritionists points of view on any of the ridiculous statements by men who never played any kind of sports in their lives.

 If I was in Barry's  position, whenever these minimen sport journalists come around asking questions, I would have spit in their eye every time..displaying a distaste for them in my eye sight.