On Baseball: Baseball stuck with Bonds for next year

Frank Robinson's baseball career ended with typical class Saturday, and it's difficult to catalog all the Hall of Famer has given to the game in his 51 seasons. But would it be asking too much to request one final favor? Take Barry Bonds with you, Frank. As the game approaches its annual October celebration of greatness, baseball's most depressing lab experiment in artificial greatness refuses to follow Robinson's example. Bonds made it clear last week that he intends to subject the sport to his milk-curdling presence again next year. (Oh, excuse me, that's assuming his family agrees, Bonds said. We all know what a paragon of family values the serial adulterer is.) Fabulous. Another year of nonstop coverage of the least popular figure in sports (sorry, T.O.), another round of checking for federal indictments along with the standings, another season of insulting banners and boos with every at-bat.

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