Perhaps a future meeting place for your Hall of Infamy inductees:
Posted on 08/07/2016 8:04:16 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
Yankees say A-Rod's last game will be on August 12th; will then assume role as special advisor and instructor.
Cheaters like A-Roid, Bonds, and Rose should not be admitted to the HOF during their lifetimes.
The big elbow pad has also inflated home run stats. Bonds and McGwire crowded the plate with their elbow pad hanging over the plate. Pitchers cannot pitch inside as the hitter will just take the pitch off the elbow pad and walk to first. Pitches on the outside corner are then right in the hitter’s sweet spot.
MLB needs to ban the elbow pad and not allow the automatic walk on a HBP when the hitter leans into the pitch. Hitters are supposed to make an effort to get out of the way. Can you imagine how many home runs Babe Ruth would have hit if he could have used these tactics? In Ruth’s day, the next pitch would have been a high inside fastball aimed the hitters head.
Two different players playing against the Red Sox this week were not allowed to take a base after getting hit. The umpire said they made no attempt to get out of the way. The commentator noted the first time that this is something that happens a cross the league about every 3 or 4 years.
Ya, he’s four away from 700 in his career.
He had a pretty good season last year. Age and injury really hit him hard late last season, and this year.
None of the juicers have been put in. So, no.
Sounds like both ARod and the Yankees can “save face” so to speak. ARod retires as a player, but still stays with the Yankee organization in another capacity.
So ARod still collects $20+ million for the last year of his player contract, but still does something for the Yankee organization to earn the money. ARod retiring as a player frees up a roster spot for one of the younger players the Yankees are trying to develop.
Sounds like a good settlement which everyone can claim to benefit from.
It’s hard to watch a star athlete decline. ARod declining reminds me a bit of watching Willie Mays in his last two seasons, after the Giants traded him to the Mets.
I’ve heard so commentators say Arod is manager material (if you ignore the whole steroids issue). He’s supposedly smart and understands the game well.
I have no idea if that is true or not.
Barry was the last. That elbow pad was made illegal during his time (though they grandfathered him and Mo Vaughn and a few other players)
after listening to the Yanks game broadcast today, sounds like a good chance he goes to play with another team for the rest of the year ... released, free agent.
I was wondering what the Yankees were going to with him as he wore out his capacity.
As for the HOF, the thinking of baseball, especially a part controlled by writers and not realists, borders on the lines of stupidity. Here is a guy that lied about his cheating use of PEDs, how he got them, from who, got caught, spent a year out of the league due to punishment for his use of them after he attempted to hide it dishonestly, and he is being considered for the HOF? At the same time, Bonds was chased by the law for years until they found nothing on him other than guesses, after he became the single season and career home run leader, multiple gold gloves, one of four that reached the 40/40 club, and lead a couple of teams into post season and world series wins. The media is still berating him every chance they get. He isn’t in the hall. And he was investigated for years and they found nothing. They got Rodriguez dead to rights, and they are already coddling him. Just shows how far baseball has sunk from reality or morality.
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Perhaps a future meeting place for your Hall of Infamy inductees:
Bonds was never on a WS winning team. The Angels beat the Giants in 2002.
At the same time, Bonds was chased by the law for years until they found nothing on him other than guesses, after he became the single season and career home run leader, multiple gold gloves, one of four that reached the 40/40 club, and lead a couple of teams into post season and world series wins.
Bonds was “convicted” in the court of public opinion, and “convicted” by the sportswriters who vote for the Hall of Fame.
And “convicted” by anecdotal evidence, such as how he became much heavier and had a larger head with loss of hair in his final years in baseball. These were considered evidence of steroid use, even if he didn’t have a positive test during his playing days.
That having been said, I agree that anybody can name 20 Yankees better than A Rod.
I don’t put Rose in with the juice heads! He cheated by betting the others cheated with the juice, Bonds might no have been caught. I remember all those lifters that shrunk up after they quit the sport it is easy to tell when you gain 35 pounds your feet grow and all after he turned 38 or 39, it was all about money and trying to beat the real players of old!!
I’ll even rank Bobby Murcer higher than A-Rod.
Paying him millions to just go the hell away.
Being convicted by opinion, is like kissing through a screen door. I have a strong dislike for liberals because they are in the habit of shaming people based upon conjecture. If anyone has facts rather than guesses about Bond’s use of PEDs, then let it out, But until they do, in this country, he is innocent until proven guilty.
Or has the lib party got that changed? Here we have a man being guilty by guess and we have a traitor agreeing she let out national secrets and she’s innocent. Same thing. One baseball player gets investigated for years, and nothing is found, and they are making it clear he will never enter the HOF. And we have another player that was proven to have lied to the investigators, about every aspect of how he got the stuff and used it illegally, and he’s okay.
Ever heard of Lee Haney? He broke Arnie’s record of MR Olympia titles. A devout christian, never proven to have used PEDs. He was twice as big as Bonds. So by observation he used them, right? Stay with the facts and the law and Bonds did nothing to deserve the swipe at him other than play a game, very well.
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Thank you. I was incorrect. Binds didn’t win a WS. But he was the most feared hitter in baseball for a number of years.
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Just remember tonight is the start of the NFL season; a sport that actually matters. Baseball?????
By the way are they still playing? (a voice in the background:”yes, but there are only 60 more games left.” ) OMIGOD!!!!!!
The fact that ARod did not bat in today’s final Yankee Stadium appearance as a player tells you all you need to know about how bad ARod was treated today...how bad the Yankee fans were treated today.
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