Anyway, I remind all Freepers that Barry Bonds hasn't failed a drug test. Also, Babe Ruth played in an age with a lot of sucky pitchers who had no modern technique. Babe Ruth at the peak of his career would today be a hopeless fatass who couldn't even make the cut for concession stand operator for the Bowie Baysox AA minor league team.
Old records like Ruth's are only the benchmarks of their time and needn't be thought of as the modern standard -- Much like how I don't see anyone breaking NASCAR legend Richard Petty's record of 200-some career wins. Today's NASCAR is lots more competitive than it was in Petty's time.
Last saturday Major League Baseball set an all time, one day attendance record: drawing 717,478 fans for 17 games, an average of 42,205.
The last two Saturdays have represented two of the three most attended days in MLB history. The previous Saturday, July 21, drew 639,628 fans for 16 games, the second-highest total before this weekend. No. 2 on the all-time list is July 3, 1999, when 640,412 fans attended 17 Major League games.
Major League Baseball remains on pace for a fourth consecutive year of record-breaking attendance. Through Saturday’s games, 49,999,879 fans had attended games this season at an average of 32,258 fans per game. Attendance through Saturday’s games is running 4.4 percent ahead of the total through the same date last season.
“Babe Ruth at the peak of his career would today be a hopeless fatass who couldn’t even make the cut for concession stand operator for the Bowie Baysox AA minor league team.”
Now that was funny! Of course, Ruth was a human being, Bonds—who knows? Anyway, Basebore blows. I quit following the game (business) when they went on strike in the 70s. They could shove a ball up their arses and fart a home run for all I care. I still wouldn’t watch it or care one way or the other.
“Anyway, I remind all Freepers that Barry Bonds hasn’t failed a drug test.”
I find this “observation” to be the lamest thing ever stated. No one can show you gravity, but you know it’s there. No one really knows what electricity is, but they know it exists. No one really knows where Michael Jackson comes from, and yet we know it’s from an alternate universe.
Anyone who has ever spent any time body building or bulking up can see that Bonds is juiced on steroids. I don’t need for him to fail a test to know he uses or at used them.
For those very reasons you stated about the distinctions between today’s game and that of the Ruth era, Ruth was a far more accomplished player and record-setter than any of the moderns.
Even if admitting of the poor pitching you claim from his era, Ruth’s contemporaries had all those same advantages you mentioned, yet none came close to his feats. In the modern era, Bonds is no where near the exponentially better player that Ruth was in his day.
Perhaps Bonds has used, or is using, a drug that there currently is no test for.
Babe Ruth at the peak of his career would today be a hopeless fatass who couldn't even make the cut for concession stand operator for the Bowie Baysox AA minor league team.
One of the most ignorant comments that I've ever read.
Has any mentioned Ray Chapman to you? Has any mentioned that vicious headhunting started once batters started walking up to the plate wearing plastic on their heads?