Posted on 08/07/2007 8:53:01 PM PDT by navysealdad
Barry Bonds hits #756
The part of Bonds I like is how he annoys the media because they annoy me. To me being a jerk to the media does not equal being a jerk but I can understand where others disagree.
Bonds is not ready to retire yet. Perhaps not until he hit 1,000 home runs.
One of the hosts on ESPN Radio today said that if he caught #756, he’d write “Steroids” all over it with a black marker and then donate it to the Hall of Fame.
He’ll DH for someone like Baltimore or Tampa.
Actually, Bonds is a jerk to everybody. He's in the same class as Mike Vick.
No. I’m just not a money grubbing selfish individual. I’m not going to resort to name calling or making inane comments towards you. I don’t feel like lowering myself down into your gutter.
Roger Maris was belittled because he played more games per year than Ruth. Not a bona fide broken record
Hank Aaron was belittled because he was black and broke the white Babe Ruth's records.
Bonds allegedly took steroids but the black thing of breaking the record was not an issue.
Maybe steroids is the key to Improving race relations?
recall Tony Gwinn's famous words about the game. "It's play ball, not work ball!"
Over his first 13 seasons Bonds averaged 32 HR per year. If you project that out to 22 seasons, you get 704 HR. That is pretty good. Then consider expansion and smaller parks and it is not impossible to reach 756. I am not saying that he didn’t juice. I think that he did. But he was a great player before he started “weight training”. I wish the O’s had a guy who could hit 32 HR this year.
Wow I honestly don't remember who won, and I love pro football! lol Wasn't it The Colts?
Yep. Beat the Bears.
LOL! ;-D
You think Bonds does steroids and A-Rod doesn’t?
Don’t feel bad — it took me a little thinking to come up with the Colts in a conversation this week! But I pretty much remember every detail of my Seahawks’ pretty epic struggle against the Bears in the NFC Championship. I wasn’t fond of the outcome, but that was one helluva game.
There once was a hitter named Bonds
With the records the cheater absconds
Bringing baseball to shame
With steroids in his veins
All the joy in the game, Babe “It’s gone!”
But, as we all know, Bonds' #'s vs. his age progression was anything but normal.
In short, yes. Infielders cannot afford to be muscle-bound, and when the M’s drafted him (and his sister negotiated his contract, LOL), he looked a lot like he does today, without a bigger upper-body that comes with age and adult supervised conditioning.
He was skinny then, certainly, but he doesn’t have anything near B*rry’s bulk. He could probably still play a pretty good SS even now. He’s only a little over thirty.
Yep...more than anything else that makes his roid use painfully obvious.
ROTF!
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