Posted on 08/08/2007 8:12:46 AM PDT by hardback
However, the juice added 50 feet to his drives changing them from flyball outs to 400 foot homeruns. That's the fallacy in your argument. Take away the juice and he hits 600 homeruns lifetime. Give him the asterisk!
thought that was the NBA?
The punchline is it doesn’t matter. The PA and Selig made sure that steroids weren’t against the rules for most of Bonds’ Sosa’s and McGuire’s careers. They wanted to bring the crowds back, they wanted some excitement, and for their sins the record book has been rewritten.
And why doesn’t everybody obsess on the sluggers. There are indications pitchers were juicing too. And that probably helped the record, faster balls travel farther when hit.
“He deserves the accolades for this achievement.”
I strongly disagree that Bonds* deserves accolades. Frankly, this whole thing makes me NOT want to watch baseball or especially go to a game.
If the record for which he's being celebrated had nothing to do with how far the ball flew, I would be more inclined to agree with you; however, the reality is tha without the juice many of the balls he so skillfilly hit would have been caught in the outfield.
When is the grand jury going to indict or the prosecution to begin?!!!???
I read an interestind article by Rick Reilly about Barry Bonds...this was 10 years or more ago. He said that there's the team, and then there's Bonds. The team travels by bus, Bonds charters a limo for himself. The team eats food that's catered, Bonds has his own personal nutritionist and chef. And so on.
Bonds is an embarrassment, IMHO. I'd not seen anything on the TV about his record last night, so I perused SI online. Man, talk able a lukewarm bunch of articles... Here's the one record in Baseball that everyone knows, and SI is running with headlines like "B*nds". I think that just about says it all.
Baseball can say Barry Bonds hit 756 homers, but they can’t make me care.
I think the grand jury asked for another 6 months to review the evidence last week.
Barry was a guy that swung at strikes and let everything else go by. His command of the strike zone is amazing. That said, his juicing prolonged his career well past the point that he would have declined.
It's a fricken GAME. Last I heard, they don't hand out Peace Prizes for the most yardage run in a single season nor for runs batted in.
except a trial hasn’t been completed in this case
Oh, I used to care. No more.
That's why I'm happy for his accomplishment. I like to be different from the mainstream.
Period.
A lot of people haven’t really looked at the numbers. If they did, they would discover some interesting facts:
— Bonds has averaged only 2 more HRs a season than Hank Aaron
— HA hit many dingers a year over his average after turning 35 (like Bonds); In the 5 years after turning 35, HA hit 44, 38, 47, 34, and 40 HRs while he averaged only 32 a year. Those, like for Bonds, were the most productive 5 years of HA’s career
— while HA did hit more HRs than Bonds early in his career, Bonds started to reverse the trend at age 30; if he was on steroids at that age, they didn’t do his HR production much good, as from age 30-35, Bonds barely hit more HRs than his average, and only had two (low) 40+ seasons.
— the monster year of 73 HRs is what skews the average difference between the two; if you take that year out, both HA and BB have the same per year average HRs.
— Bonds became a better HR hitter when he started playing for the Giants.
Whether Bonds is on steroids or not, I don’t see it as making a big difference in HR production. Unless, of course, Aaron was on steroids too. The thing is, if you can play for 20 years and hit 30 HRs a year (which isn’t going to raise a red flag for steroids), you’ve got 600 for a career. 600 has always been considered a very high achievement, but I’m betting there are a few guys (including ARod) in the game today that can do that or come close. My point is if you can play 22 years and hit a decent number of HRs, you can get into the elite. What Bonds has done, given his time in the game, shouldn’t blow one’s mind.
Steroids have little to do with Bond’s record.
How conveeeeenient.
Now that you menton it, I’ve always wondered about Clemens.
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