On a cool spring evening in May, the baseball fans in Houston took a stand and let it be known who they considered to be the National League’s Most Valuable Player. The fans in Houston know what really matters, after all – they’re not hung up on silly things like numbers and who wins what. They are a people about character and compassion, much like the Governor they helped elect to lead our country. And on that now-historic night, those people saw Astros pitcher Russ Springer pitch at San Francisco Giants charlatan Barry Bonds.

That’s right – pitch at, not pitch to. Springer threw five pitches to Bonds. The first pitch sailed behind Bonds’ back. The next four pitches were inside to Bonds. The third hit Bonds’ bat handle. The fifth finally found the mark, hitting Bonds as that cheating coward recoiled from that tiny little ball. Given the amount of junk coarsing through Bonds’ veins, I doubt he even felt a thing. Holier-than-thou superstars like Bonds and his ilk think they can get through life by just doing some drugs and hitting some balls and acting like the rest of the world owes them a favor. But the rest of America felt Springer’s message.

With that pitch, he said no to Bonds and everything he represented. No to cheating. No to drug abuse. No to corruption. No to the selfish pursuit of personal goals. And, most importantly, no to the corruption of the greatest sport in the world. With that one toss of the ball, Springer stood up for everyone in America that is sick and tired of the way certain members of our society continually degrade and deface the core values upon which this great nation was built. No, said Russ, we can’t let Their Kind spread their diseases of the soul to our pasttimes and our children. We need to take a stand, Russ said, and we need to take it now.

Not that many people know about what Russ Springer did. A certain group of sports news networks simply let the story die. It didn’t fit their nice-and-tidy story about what they want Americans to believe baseball really is. They want baseball to be as corrupt and degrading to its viewers as second-tier sports like basketball and football, what with murderers and child molesters and cheaters running amok. They want to turn America’s Sport into just another drug-drenched amusement park. They want baseball to not be about upstanding real Americans like Ty Cobb and Bob Feller. These elitists want the face of baseball to be multi-millionaire snobs like Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez, supposed athletes that spend more time in a bathroom stall or a psychiatrist’s couch than on the actual field of battle.

With that one shining moment, Russ Springer said no to all of that. After that fifth pitch, Springer was ejected from the game, while Bonds – the true villain – was allowed to reach first base safely. But the crowd stood and applauded Springer’s statement. They let this grizzled journeyman leave the field a champion. It’s time for the Baseball Writers Association of America to bestow this blessing upon Russ yet again. Not just for baseball, but for America. Vote Russ Springer for National League MVP.

That’s My Word.

John Gibson is a talk show host for Fox News and Fox News Radio, and wants to remind all caucasians to keep having babies.