BASEBALL GOES THE EXTRA MILE TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM BONDS

by WCK, 100% Injury Rate

There's usually a lot going on at the Winter Meetings of baseball. Case in point, we've already had the big Florida/Detroit deal go down. But sometimes, there are more minor things that basically go unnoticed. Like the yearly highlight videos played at the meetings.

You can learn an awful lot about baseball based on those videos.

Played at the MLB Rule 5 Draft at the 2007 Winter Meetings today were two such highlights reels. One was of the 2007 baseball season, and the other was of 2007 records.

Bonds didn't appear at all in the first one, and he received all of a one second clip of the back of his uniform during the season records video.

That's some pretty subtle harsh treatment to give a guy who just broke the most hallowed record in your sport. But then again, with Bonds having been indicted, and the Mitchell report coming out soon, I wouldn't exactly call this surprising.

I just wish Selig had the guts to actually come out say something, rather than continue to be a complete wuss when it comes to Bonds.

HT: The Major Blogs of Minor League News