Griffey Jr. suffered a painful groin injury trying to make a play against the Cubs Wednesday night.  Dr. Tim Kremchek made it sound like it wasn’t career threatening or chronic.  At this point, with the Reds eliminated, it’s almost a non-issue.  Griffey had a great year at the plate and a better year in the field as the season went on after a very shaky start.  I hope he’s not in too much pain – groin injuries remind you of the hurt with every step.

I went to Vote 756.com to vote on what should be done with the Barry Bonds home run record baseball.  I was a bit surprised at how I voted and felt about this issue.  I’ve said some pretty strong comments about Bonds in this blog.  I am convinced he cheated by using performance-enhancing / head growing drugs.  I acknowledge his almost unparalleled talent, but can’t believe he’s doing it in his 40’s without help.  I don’t like him because he’s a jerk.  I hate that he broke the home run record held by Henry Aaron, even though I’m equally convinced A-Rod will break the final Bonds mark (TBD) later. 

You would think I would lean toward either marking the ball with an asterisk (I laughed out loud when I heard on the radio that was one of the choices) or sending it into space.  Instead I voted to send it, as is, to Cooperstown.  This website and voting exercise alone will send the message that the record was acheived under dubious circumstances.  I know the history books and ESPN’s of the future (whatever form that has) won’t forget it either.  We all know how this record was achieved.  Let’s leave this historical artifact unblemished.

Despite the obvious self-promotion value he’s getting out of it, I think it’s pretty clever what Marc Ecko is doing on this site.  He’s not publishing the leading vote getter, instead he’s only showing the total votes received.  There were 1.7 million votes when I hit the site two days ago.  There are now 5.5 million votes as of this typing.  Either people are cheating the site with programs, spending the lunch breaks voting or word is getting around.  It’s hard to say if the old school baseball historian vote will trump the 15-year-old smart ass vote. 

 http://www.vote756.com/marcecko/ 

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