“It did my heart good to see Barry Bonds become Major League Baseball’s all-time leading home-run hitter last week. Oh, I know, I know, he’s probably done steroids, he’s a jerk to the media, etc. etc. But I’ll always have a soft spot for Barry. You see, I knew him before he got big. (Fill in your own steroid joke here.) …”

Read the rest of Flyer editor Bruce VanWyngarden’s ode to baseball’s bad boy.