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The Bill Clinton of Baseball -
Barry Bonds and a sports injustice.
National Review Online ^
| 03/10/06
| Doug Gamble
Posted on 03/10/2006 6:20:02 AM PST by Fury
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:20:04 AM PST
by
Fury
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: Fury
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:22:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: Fury
If he is allowed to play this year, I predict lots of chin-music.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:23:44 AM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(I will never forget. I promise.)
To: Fury
Every pitcher in the league should intentionally walk Bonds every at bat.. I know if I was a manager I'd tell my pitching staff to not pitch to him EVER, no matter what... Rather take a loss than do that sort of damage to the game.
To: jasoncann
Bonds is also the poster boy of a sport that looked the other way for so long, and only aggressively addressed the steroid issue when Congress got involved.
Minor league baseball is where we spend our baseball sports dollars. The players are hungry, polite to fans, and you can have a good time at a game for a family of four and not have to pawn the silverware in doing so.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:25:52 AM PST
by
Fury
To: Fury
No matter what numbers are printed in record books, we who love baseball will always know the truth.
In my mind, Barry Bonds' records will be stricken from my mind.
Same with McGwire and Sosa.
Imagine Aaron or Mays on steroids?
What kind of numbers there?
Maybe Ruth was on hotdogs!
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:26:33 AM PST
by
CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
(Toon Town, Iran...........where reality is the real fantasy.)
To: Fury
Bonds has proven to be the Bill Clinton of baseball, portraying himself as the victim of those out to get him and refusing to take responsibility for his actions.The Vast White Boy Conspiracy strikes again.
Now that it has been exposed, Bonds can get back to doing the work of the American people. < /sarcasm >
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:27:16 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: Fury
He may have the record, but, he'll never have respect.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:27:27 AM PST
by
Lost Highway
(I don't know what the world may need but a V8 engines a good start for me)
To: Fury
Steroids didn't help Barry Bonds and his OBP. You can't enhance having a better eye for what the pitcher is sending you at 90 mph.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:29:00 AM PST
by
D-Chivas
To: Fury
**********STANDING OVATION***************
DOn't have anything to add, this says it all.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:29:13 AM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: D-Chivas
Steroids didn't help Barry Bonds and his OBP. You can't enhance having a better eye for what the pitcher is sending you at 90 mph. But the ball he just hit with that eye just flew 370 ft into the stands instead of 320 ft into the Outfielders glove -- thereby upping his HR total and OBP. Thank you for playing.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:31:16 AM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
If he is allowed to play this year, I predict lots of chin-music. If some jackass stood at the plate to watch a homerun hit off me, he would see more chin music than the Beijing Symphony.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:31:27 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: Fury
Congress should never have gotten involved. MLB, the owners and the coaches should have been actively searching out signs in every player. Baseball should police itself. I don't want my tax dollars investigating a sport that is losing its legitimacy... Congress can't prop it up.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:31:37 AM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: HamiltonJay
Every pitcher in the league should intentionally walk Bonds every at bat.. Why waste 4 pitches when one will do the trick?
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:32:37 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: Fury
Mark my words.....
He won't get to the 755 mark. Not this season or ever.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:33:30 AM PST
by
freedomson
(Tagline comment removed by moderator)
To: Fury
Baseball has been Berry Berry Good to Bondo.
Bondo has been Berry Berry bad for baseball.
I know I will not even watch one single game on TV or anywhere because of him.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:34:44 AM PST
by
DeaconRed
(IF . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
To: commish
Thank you for playing.LOL... and watch out for that screen-door.
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posted on
03/10/2006 6:35:04 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: N. Theknow
Well I'm not for hurting anyone.... let him go through the season without 1 pitch.... I think that would put an end to it.
The Giants will not cut him, they won't punish him... the powers that be there let him walk on water.... and San Fran as a city we know has no such thing left as Moral Outrage.... So let him just keep coming to bat and walking to first.. see how long he has to settle for that before he quits in a big ugly stink.
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