Posted on 07/20/2007 9:07:10 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Flash photography at a baseball park results in a nice photo of the back of the heads of the people sitting right in front of that photographer.
Hmm...whether people like him or not, it’s a fantastic record.
Teams could walk him at every bat as a protest of the title that he has not earned.
That is true if you are using a cheap camera.
I’m enjoying all the angst surrounding Barry breaking the “most holy” record. It’s funny. I especially like how the mighty commissioner’s “investigation” that was supposed to save the record book has come up pointless. Everybody loved it when the long balls started going out at a huge rate, got attendance back up, ratings back up, revenue back up. And nobody bothered to look at whether MLB’s complete lack of steroid policy might have anything to do with that, until Barry started threatening the most holy record. Now all of a sudden it’s a terrible tragedy, well you gotta sleep in the bed you made people, this is the price you pay for looking the other way 10 years ago.
We will know that He really does’nt have the record, that he cheated and lied and treateed the Fans like Trash. The record will always be Aaron’s. Barry Bonds is a freak.
For decades men have been trying to break The Bambino’s total. The Babe was fueled with hot dogs, booze and babes; so his marks are legit. Maris did his 61 legit and Hank did his total legit.
Bonds is a fraud and he should have been drummed out of baseball; if the figurehead comish’s had any balls.
I think that A-Rod will break the record by then. A-Rod is only 31 and will hit his 500th HR within a few weeks. He's about 150 HR ahead of where Bonds was at age 31 (of course, Bonds had his monster years in his late '30s).
Just think about how many more home runs he would have hit, if only he had cut down on the smoking, the drinking, and the sex, especially in between the innings. ;)
I’m far from alone in predicting Bonds never will be in the Hall of Fame, at least not as a MEMBER. *He will be discussed, along with other cheaters, on a wall devoted to displays about the steroid scandal.)
Cheater.
Instead of throwing the balls back, per tradition, they should have thrown giant Asterisks on to the field.
“The Babe was fueled with hot dogs, booze....”
Wasn’t booze illegal back then?....
People will be trying to toss Ruth’s homers because of the illegal alcohol back then. Of course, Maris and Aaron may also have been hopped up on “greenies”, coca-cola, and cigarettes.
The funny thing is that, personality-wise, Hammerin’ Hank is just about as big an ass-wipe as Barry.
It’s a travesty of a sham.
There was also an interesting analysis the other day of ballpark size; I’ll see if I can find it. The contention was that the new smaller ball parks have as much to do with the home run surge as the roids. Although, they didn’t seem to take into account the short porches in Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds where the Babe, Maris, Mantle, Mays, Ott, et al. hit a lot of their homers.
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