Bonds would have been shamed out of the game in a more respectable time.
715 was big news in 1974. Baseball has moved on.
Was just watching Sunday Night Baseball and the reporter couldn't say enough times that, in San Francisco, Bonds receives "unconditional love" from the fans. I think they deserve each other.
Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron: still no's. 1 and 2 on the all time HR list.
I'm not of of those "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" guys. But I despise Bonds even though the cretin media does too.
Without the juice, Bonds would have had a nice carreer--about 450 homers, good hits, walks, rbi numbers. Hall of fame consideration-maybe-down the line-maybe.
As it is now, he's just a bum. (As are McGuire ans Sosa)
Bonds was the greatest player of his generation before he juiced, and the greatest of his generation after he juiced. He is a sign of the times in baseball.
On the other hand, you would think he had killed someone given the hysteria over his passing Ruth. Bonds was the greatest player during the steroid era, just as Ruth was the greatest player during the segregated era. Ruth dominated his sport more dramatically than any other pro athlete ever, something that comparing the numbers of others in other generations will never take away. Ruth was far more dominant than Aaron by a long shot, but Aaron is the all time home run king.
History will place it all in perspective, including the fact that Jose Canseco (a joke in his own right) was correct: at least half of major league players were taking some form of steroid for years. In that era, Bonds towered over all in terms of performance, and was probably the most feared hitter ever (hence, the number of intentional walks).
What's baseball ? Wasn't that a sport they used to play in the 20th Century ?
He treated us fans and Pittsburgh reporters like crap and deserves the same!!!!!!!
Brad and Angelina plop a kid. When can we get past these idiot stories and get back to the real world?
Bonds is a blankety racist wearing baseball socks.
Joe Jackson had the best batting average in the Series and there has never been any proof that he was part of throwing it, he should be let in the Hall of Fame and his expulsion should be posthumously revoked.
Rose should be allowed an "up or down" vote.
Bonds should be stripped of his records from 1998 on and banned from the game.
Selig should resign as Commissioner because it is his indifference that allowed this.
Steroids may have helped him hit harder and farther, but he still has to see and hit the ball. Steroids won't help that.
Personally I think it's ridiculous for him to be vilified for something that was acceptable at the time he used it. Should today's players with their whirlpools and cortizone injections and specialized training and doctors, protein pills and vitamins be considered "cheaters" compared to the old days when the players had a tougher life and not much money?
I listened to Tom Seaver, a Cincinnati Red at the end of his career, comment on Pete Rose. Seaver was asked: "Should Rose be in the Hall of Fame?"
Seaver gave a very simple answer: "No," he said. When asked why, he replied, "Baseball is a game of rules. Rose broke the rules."
Cincinnati idolizes Rose, but it has great respect for Seaver. It is also used to hedging around the topic of Rose. Seaver didn't hedge one bit.
I wish someone would ask him about Bonds. (If they did, I missed it.)
Tom Seaver for Baseball Commissioner!
What's the big deal? Babe Ruth isn't the homerun king.
Hank Aaron has had that record since April 8, 1974.
When Bonds breaks 755 then they'll have a reason to bitch.
The Apocalypse must be near.
The game itself is so boring ([1] Homer's comment when he went on the wagon in one of the early episodes: "I never realized baseball was so boring", [2] Evidently the 715 ball fell into the lap of some doofus who wasn't watching the game - he was in line for a beer), we have to attach significance to records which owe more to arithemetic than to performance at any given moment, like, say, track and field records. It's all in our heads now, and not on the field.