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Posted on 04/27/2006 3:38:21 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
NEW YORK (AP) -- Barry Bonds will have to wait until he passes Hank Aaron before baseball throws a party for him.
Major League Baseball is not planning any celebration for Bonds if and when he tops Babe Ruth's mark of 714 home runs, commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday.
"Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record," Selig said. "We don't celebrate anybody the second or third time in."
Bonds has been the subject of steroids speculation for several seasons. The recent book "Game of Shadows" detailed allegations against him, and a federal grand jury is investigating whether he committed perjury when he told another grand jury that he had never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds hit his 711th homer Wednesday. His San Francisco Giants were off Thursday, and open a three-game series Friday night at home against Arizona.
Selig does not figure to be in San Francisco -- or in Milwaukee or Philadelphia, where the Giants play next week -- as Bonds nears Ruth.
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Although I am sure he will find a way to screw it all up.
Well there wouldn't be a real need for any celebration considering no record would be broken.
Oh I know, but you KNOW that the Giants were hoping there would be one.....
and their fans as well.
And Barry too. I think he knows he won't ever get to Hank Aaron. Either he will get busted for roids or his body will give out. I think the latter is more likely to happen sooner.
The mark of Bonds.
Well he did say that he just wanted to pass "the white guy".
That 715th Bonds homer will be the death knell for the game of baseball unless they make a second, separate set of record books for chemically-enhanced players. Barry, you're no Babe Ruth.
I bet Je$$e Jackson and Al Sharpton will make a point to celebrate it.
yes he did.
I hope he does it in Philly too. That would be something to see hehe
Maybe he'll have a chance to do it in New York.
something may be coming on that front.
They won't make a separate record book and it won't end the game (I don't know where that came from) but Barry's records may not be in the books very long.
Or NY.
I don't think they will be in NY anytime soon, unless he goes into a big slump or something....it will either be SF, Milwaukee or Philly....
Philly would be an interesting scene.
I almost wish he does it in either LA or San Diego...the syringes will fly!
Great...you just made me spew soda all over the screen!
LOL
My mom is veeeery liberal. We were talking on the phone a few weeks ago and the subject of Bonds came up. She said people are being so hard on him because he's "going to break a white man's record." I had to remind her that Hank Aaron was black.
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