Bonds Is One Problem Baseball Can’t Escape

Barry Bonds is so popular in baseball that many were rooting yesterday for him to test positive a second time. A second positive test would result in his identification and a twenty five game suspension. A first positive test prompts neither penalty nor identification.

That was why baseball officials were not speaking yesterday on the report in The Daily News that Bonds tested positive for amphetamines. Bonds practically acknowledged having tested positive by not denying the results in a statement he issued yesterday saying that a teammate, Mark Sweeney, had nothing to do with the matter.

Bonds isn’t earning his records like Babe Ruth earned his back in the day.