[nanwynnfan]

On page 1 of this thread, I offered an analysis, in some detail, about the respective career production records of Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds; and then I separately provided a time line for MLB defining a drug policy and its parameters of expectation [with exemption from punishment] laid out as a background of reality against which to check Barry Bonds' HR performance, with references to earlier performances in his career.

GS get on his righteous high horse, calls Bonds a cheater, decries the fan standard of honesty, which is best measured by fannies in the seats and eyeballs on the screen, in an almost evangelical plea for sanctity among MLB's most hallowed records. I called it a homily.***

I, in turn respond that GS himself, would have skewered any poster for such an emotional, unsupported appeal.

Now, my sobriety, reading comprehension, brightness at question, [and being held suspect of having a drinking problem] I am expected to apologize. That apology will come the day after Yadier Molina [clean, steroid-free] clobbers his 881st career HR, leaving no doubt as to baseball's reigning HR king.

***, Merriam Webster:


homily
One entry found.

"homily

Main Entry:
hom·i·ly Listen to the pronunciation of homily
Pronunciation:
\ˈhä-mə-lē\

Function:
noun

Inflected Form(s):
plural hom·i·lies

Etymology:

Middle English omelie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin homilia, from Late Greek, from Greek, conversation, discourse, from homilein to consort with, address, from homilos crowd, assembly; akin to Greek homos same — more at same

Date:
14th century

***1: a usually short sermon

***2: a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme

***3: an inspirational catchphrase; also : platitude"