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I can remember my days playing little league more clearly then almost anything else from my childhood; the sound of the wooden bat making solid contact, the satisfying vibrations in my hands, the relief of making it to base safely.

The pure innocent joy that I remember is like very little that I have experienced since, and even though my interests quickly turned away from baseball to other sports, girls, music, etc. baseball still has a very special place in my internal mythos.

I think this is why I have had such a visceral reaction to the farce that Major League Baseball has turned into, and in my mind is personified by Barry Bonds. About the same time I was learning how to turn a double play, I watched Hank Aaron hit that Al Downing pitch over the wall to break Babe Ruth’s homerun record and I will be damned if I am going to support an organization that is planning on celebrating the aforementioned Mr. Bonds breaking Hammerin’ Hank’s record with the (alleged) aid of performance enhancing drugs.

I say alleged because it has never been proven that Bonds has ever used steroids; he has never tested positive, but come on, anyone that is the least bit unbiased can look at the evidence and come to a fair conclusion that there is very little doubt that he is/was not juiced. If you need more evidence than his physical transformation, the fact that he has gotten significantly higher production at point in his career when all pre-juice era players production falls off, and his laughable grand jury testimony, just read the excerpt from Game of Shadows and I think that you’ll get all of the evidence you need.

Early in this MLB season, Bonds will pass Babe Ruth to become the second most prolific home run hitter in Major League history. But I won’t see it. I am not going to watch the first baseball game this year, I am not watching the highlights on Sport Center, I will not attend a game, read any baseball news online, nothing. I am boycotting MLB because they are complicit in allowing this to happen and I want nothing to do with it.

If Bonds hits homeruns at the same pace this year as he has in the last few seasons, he will pass Henry Aaron later in the season to be baseball’s all time homerun hitter. I don’t care if you put an asterisk next to his name, tell me that nobody is going to think about this record the same way as Hank’s, etc. MLB is not only going to let it happen they are going to celebrate it - and it is a travesty, a miscarriage of justice and I will not be a part of it. I am boycotting MLB and I ask each of you to look inside yourself and decide if you want to support this farce.

If you watch baseball on TV, go to a game, buy merchandise – then you are an accomplice in this ludicrous, empty show – this mockery, this sham. Join me in letting Bud Selig and Barry Bonds know that this is NOT okay, that we are not going to be part of this travesty.

Join me in my Boycott of 2006 Major League Baseball.