A Day Of Goodbyes

Goodbye to Kirby Puckett who died Monday at the age of 45 one day after suffering a stroke. You hate to see one of baseball's good guys meet such an early end. As Carlton Fisk said:

"There was no player I enjoyed playing against more than Kirby. He brought such joy to the game. He elevated the play of everyone around him." -- Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk.

Goodbye to Barry Bonds' legacy. According the book "Game of Shadows", written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters, Bonds used performance enhancing drugs including steroids for at least five seasons. An excerpt from the book appears in the March 13th issue of Sports Illustrated:

"Beginning in 1998 with injections in his buttocks of Winstrol, a powerful steroid, Barry Bonds took a wide array of performance enhancing drugs over at least five seasons in a massive doping regimen that grew more sophisticated as the years went on..."

Not surprisingly, Bonds had no comment: "I won't even look at it. For what? There's no need to..."



Goodbye to Red Sox catcher John Flahrety who retired today after his botched attempt to catch Tim Wakefield on Sunday. I guess Flaherty "knuckled under pressure." Sorry. Is it too late to dial up the Padres to get Doug Mirabelli back?

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