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To: billbears
I'm getting tired of this. If the author wants to step his ass up to the plate and pop off the difference (655 home runs) go for it. Otherwise, shut up.

Oh, get real.

If Barry Bonds had not used his mechanical aids and steroids and gotten, maybe, 600 homers over his career, he would still be a great player and headed for the Hall of Fame. The problem is that the artificial aids, both pharmacological and mechanical, have added to his success, which renders his tying or Aaron's record moot.

There is no way to know how many home runs Bonds would have hit unaided, but it doesn't make much sense to keep track of how many he has hit with all the assistance he has had. I can go out into my garage and put together a potato gun that can lob a baseball out of the park. Watching the ball fly is not the point. The point is what a man can do.

Bonds is doing more than he could as a man. Watching him bat is about as interesting as watching somebody fire a potato gun.

49 posted on 08/06/2007 10:54:34 AM PDT by gridlock (You cannot coexist with somebody who wants you dead.)
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To: gridlock
Watching him bat is about as interesting as watching somebody fire a potato gun.

I like my potato gun.

71 posted on 08/06/2007 11:14:44 AM PDT by Lost Highway (I don't know what the world may need but a V8 engines a good start for me)
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