When Bonds caught Aaron yesterday, Commissioner Bud Selig said he or another baseball official would attend the Giants’ next few games "out of respect for the tradition of the game, the magnitude of the
record and the fact that all citizens in this country are innocent
until proven guilty."
Innocent until proven guilty. Nice words. A principle the NFL has trashed by cashiering Michael Vick before he has been tried on dog-fighting charges. Yes, dogfighting is terrible, and, unlike Bonds’s supposed infraction, not everybody does it. But doesn’t everybody deserve a hearing?
