[Chi-townChief]

The Sun-Times is going wild with this - the print edition actually has a full-page Barack Hussein Obama on the front cover and a full-page Hank Aaron on the back.

[Jim Noble]

Baseball's most cherished record now belongs to Barry Bonds

I thought it belonged to Cy Young?

[bigcat32]

“It would be one thing if Bonds were a unique case, the lone abuser in an otherwise clean game. If you believe that, you’re as naive as Selig now claims he was back in the 1990s.”

I’d be willing to bet that over 50% of players were using. I put the blame on Bud Selig.

GO TRIBE!

[Artemis Webb]

Barry Bonds cheated but he the record should still belong to him?

This is like saying that Ben Johnson who won the 100m Gold Medal in Seoul in 1988 should been allowed to keep it after he tested positive and it was stripped.

The next big test is five years from now when Bonds is retired and his name appears on The Hall of Fame ballot. Mark McGuire (who I love) did not deserve to go on the first ballot. He might not deserve it ever. Bonds doesn’t deserve it on the first ballot. That privilege is set aside for the truly great.

[wideawake]

The all-time hits leader: Pete Rose, who has been banned by baseball and who was convicted of tax evasion, serving a prison term in Downstate Marion. There isn't a single asterisk next to any of his records -- and Rose committed the game's biggest sin, gambling on baseball.

How did gambling enhance Rose's hitting performance, O Sun-Times moron?

[Scythian]

Yawn, bonds is a drug user and a fraud

[KC_Conspirator]

Ah yes, I happend to be in Chicago a few weeks ago on July and saw with my own eyes the idolization of Obama by the local Chicagoland media. Its amazing since he is a naive, back-bencher, who has no accomplishments. He does however have liberals with guilt backing him.

So this backing of Bonds, a juiced-up roid-head who obviously is guilty of cheating and bringing shame to the game, is no suprise.

[razorback-bert]

When MLB didn’t care about tradition and didn’t play the Series, I quit caring about MLB. Haven’t been to or watch a game since.

[Badeye]

1. Bonds has always been a punk. Since 1997 he’s been a very large punk. And his ‘teamates’ while bashful to say anything publicly (roid rage fears, perhaps?) aren’t bashful about saying it privately. I’ve talked to two of them over the past decade, and heard of others. So has this reporter I suspect, which causes me to ask why he’s making things up....

2. Hank Aaron’s ‘message’ was reminicent of the Wizard of Oz, the guy ‘behind the curtain’. Whats revealing is Aaron wasn’t there. I saw Aaron tie the record here in Cincy. I can’t escape the contrast between his class act, and Bonds chemically enhanced egomania.

3. Selig will be remembered as the clown that killed baseball as ‘The National Pasttime’. This is what happens when you appoint a used car salesman MLB Commissioner.

Baseball KNEW in 1997 steriods were beings used throughout the league, and DID NOTHING.

Its no longer a sport, any more than the Soviet Block East Germany’s women’s swimming team was made up exclusively of females.

Contrats, Mr Selig, Congrats Mr Bonds. You killed the game I loved as a kid as surely as an eskimo kills a baby seal, just not as cleanly.

[sitetest]

“If Selig tries to wipe away Bonds’ accomplishments, then he’d better go after Mark McGwire and all of the other oversized stars of the Steroid Era.”

Works for me.

[Junior_G]

The all-time hits leader: Pete Rose, who has been banned by baseball and who was convicted of tax evasion, serving a prison term in Downstate Marion. There isn't a single asterisk next to any of his records -- and Rose committed the game's biggest sin, gambling on baseball.

This writer is an idiot. Of course there is no asterisk next to Pete's record—the number of hits he had was not unfairly improved by his gambling habit. Pete's gambling was an ill-advised attempt to make more money, not to cheat his way to a hits record.

[Junior_G]

And what is with the gloating tone of this schmuck’s article? Is he Barry Bonds’ best friend?

[JZelle]

Too Funny!

[HawaiianGecko]

All the pissing and moaning about this record is for naught. 756 home runs is still 756 home runs.  To consider these home runs phony necessitates that one must consider all RBIs from Bonds to be phony, which in turn suggests that ML Baseball adjust the outcome of every game that Bonds nailed a home run.  In fact, why only the HRs?  Shouldn't his base hits be taken away also?

To say that Bonds is not the home run king while still accepting the results of this man's slugging is a bit hypocritical.

I like this argument:  The man was still able to hit the ball over the fence even though he was on drugs.

[rightinthemiddle]

I remember when Hank broke Ruth’s record...I was 11. I didn’t even think about Hank being black, or white.

After he hit the home run, I ran to the back door and yelled to my mom, “Hank did it! Hank did it!

Last night, I watched DIY network.

[Pietro]

MLB is a joke and BB is the perfect poster boy for it.

[N. Theknow]

And if you are a baseball fan, deep down, you know he deserves it.

Gotta run get a copy of this paper for my garden.

This BS should be great for my flowers.

[X-FID]

The Sun-Times is going wild with this - the print edition actually has a full-page Barack Hussein Obama on the front cover and a full-page Hank Aaron on the back.

You know they luv BO over at the self-admitted "progressive" tabloid now.

He gets saintly pictures on the front page there on command.