Why we need Bonds

This is a very depressing time in sports. Baseball rules the landscape with no other real challenger and what should be the most celebrated event in sports this year is being tarnished by a bunch of uptight sports writers who want to refuse to acknowledge Bonds accomplishments and a commissioner who might not even show up to watch it happen. Like he has more important things to do.

So instead of being caught up in the chase of the greatest record in sports being broken by arguably the best baseball player ever we instead got to bear witness to the following sports stories in the past month or so.

1) Chris Benoit's Murder Suicide which was just about the most shocking and deplorable thing I've heard. As a former wrestling fan he seemed like one of the good guys. This hurt me more than any event in sports ever did.

2) Mike Vick's Dog Fighting Ring which even if he didn't have knowledge of it is still bad. It happened on your property and something this brutal shouldn't be happening anywhere.

3) Tim Donaghy Betting Scandal which I'm still not sure how big of an effect on the game it will have once it's all said and done.

So those are three major story's from the past month and with football still more than a month away we are stuck with baseball to remind us why we watch sports. That's why we need Bonds. We need to get caught up in something, to marvel at the accomplishment and forget about the previous three events. So I'm begging everyone from Bud Selig to the nation's sportswriters just forget about your undeserved agenda against him and please let's just celebrate something this summer.