"That's my emotions now. That's how I feel now. When I decide to retire five years from now, we'll see where they are at that moment," he added. "We'll see where they are at that time, and maybe I'll reconsider.
In other words, he’s talking crap. If, for some reason, he manages to get elected to the Hall of Fame, he will be there as fast as his roided legs can carry him.
There is no way Barry Bonds turns down such a large stage from which Barry Bonds can talk about all that is wonderful about Barry Bonds and lambast all those who have had the nerve to say bad things about Barry Bonds.
And this years Gary Hart Stupidity Award goes to...
That's the biggest crime in the story. Murphy had to sell a priceless baseball because it would have impoverished him to keep it.
Sending his baseball to the Hall of Fame and having them display it with an asterisk and not having to have the cheater present: PRICELESS
Is there one sportswriter on the planet that Bond's didn't make a complete @$$ out of himself to anyway?
I think sportswriters are idiots like the rest of the journalists, but I don't depend on them to get into the hall of fame either.
The thing that gets me is how fans and sportswriters fawn over guys like Bonds. He played in Pittsburgh for some years early in his career and he was miserable even back then. He didn’t get along with fans, managers, teammates, writers, anyone. But people cried and carried on when he left. Even today, people here still want him back. At one of the home games in Pittsburgh this year, there was some promotion on the Jumbotron about him...this was right after he hit his last homer. I was at that game, but when that came on, I went to the ladies room. It was enough to make me hurl.
Something I should mention — some people contend he is one of the greatest hitters of all time. Ok, so he has 762 home runs. But sometime take a look at his batting averages and compare them to some of the past greats in this game. His stats are awful. Most years, Bonds averages somewhere in the 200’s. By comparsion, Lou Gehrig (just using one example) was hitting in the 300’s, 400’s...even 500 one year. The only years he did poorly were his last two when I believe he was sick or getting sick. These days, the bar has been lowered so anyone who bats 150 is considered a major star. Ridiculous.
The guy is an idiot, a jerk, mean and miserable and not even all that good of a player or a batter, despite his home runs. I don’t wish evil on him, but don’t put me in the same room with him.
I hate Barry Bonds, but I also think the idea of branding an asterisk on the ball is stupid, and I think MLB should stop the practice of permitting “fans” to leave the ballpark with important “milestone” balls. These balls are marked with the MLB logo and belong to the sport. Fans merely rent a seat. Are they permitted to leave with the seat? Ridiculous. The Mark Ecko fiasco was a real turning point. Milestone balls belong to the Hall of Fame, not stupid fans and self-promoting idiots.
Baseball is a joke, the cheating is rampant. They ought to asterisk Mark McQuire’s balls too...uh, I mean ball. For the most statistic heavy sport there is, there is not a sport in which statistics are more meaningless. Every ballpark is a different size so statistics mean nothing. Ok, ok, I admit, I’m not a baseball fan...they ruined it a long time ago.
I'm fine with that.
I have a feeling that if Bonds manages to get inducted into the Hall of Fame that there will be a whole bunch of future inductees who will refuse the honor.
Yeah, tell that to Roger (61*) Maris.
Excuse my ignorance, but what the heck kinda taxes do you have to pay on a baseball that you catch in the stands?
I don’t think this will be a problem now.........
Something tells me the revelation in the indictment about positive tests for steroids in his BalCo bloodwork will pretty well negate any need for Mr. Bonds to worry about Cooperstown.