Posted on 05/09/2006 11:08:28 AM PDT by JZelle
Barry Bonds circles the bases these days to the sound of one hand clapping ... and one knee creaking. The Shambino is just a homer away from 714 -- Babe Ruth's address -- but the only people outside of McCovey Cove who seem to care are the ones at ESPN, his own private Paraguay. Barry's their boy. To the bitter end. And rarely has the pursuit of a record left such a sour taste. Indeed, Bonds' growing home run total elicits about the same response from the masses as that tote board in New York City, the one that keeps track of the national debt. Baseball may have given Barry BALCO a free pass, but in the court of public opinion he's already been affixed with the Scarlet Asterisk.
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The great Shambino?
LOL
Preach!
I saw Joe Morgan try his darnedest to spin this with race. According to Joe race comes into every situation in America. If it's possible to involve race, then it's a deciding factor, according to Joe. Now, if a white man said such rubbish, he'd be branded a racist. In fact, I believe that is just about text book racisim. But, Joe will continue to broadcast games, without even a peep about this lattest bit of bile he let out.
I digress. Barry Bond's problem isn't steroids, or race. Barry Bond's problem is he has presented the personna of the ultimate spoiled rich kid with a chip on his shoulder. A truely unlikable person who has had a habit of not performing in the playoffs.
Barry's dad Bobby, was a pro. Barry didn't come from the streets, but was never shy about claiming his race kept him down/apart from others. Bah! Barry, just go away.
Wrong, no proof of fraud ...................... I'll explain to younz later.
No forget about it, I won't bother......... keep hating the black guy "on drugs".
How Effin LAME of you!
Stupid man who knows nearly nothing about hitting a baseball.
Are you calling me a racist?
"No forget about it, I won't bother......... keep hating the black guy "on drugs". "
Joe Morgan?! Joe? Is that you Joe?
I love ESPN but.... they have been promoting Bariod as if he was Cal Ripken Jr. Bariod always has been and always will be a classless jackass. It's too bad ESPN will run all Barry al the time after he passes Babe Ruth. It should be ignored when it happens, but I know that is only wishfull thinking on my part. It will be a sad day for Baseball when The mighty Babe gets passed by the worst example of an athlete ever.
Joe Morgan fell down many years ago, and can't get up. A shame.
"It should be ignored when it happens"
That's easy. I'll ignore it. Don't watch that garbage ESPN pushes and it will go away.
"The mighty Babe gets passed by the worst example of an athlete ever."
Babe Ruth's place in baseball lore is secure. What Bonds does is almost immaterial. And... worst example ever? C'mon, a little over the top. I don't like Bonds, and he's done crappy things, but, I know of worse examples. I watched Albert Belle for one. :)
ROFL! This article nails Bonds' ass.
Oh, really? Funny how Mr. Science didn't bother extrapolating exactly how he arrived at "142 more homers," how many Bonds would have had in his estimation, or whether or not he included Bonds' 105 homers since 2003, hit while mandatory and random testing has been in effect.
But if and when he does cross the finish line, it will be as a latter-day Rosie Ruiz, not as the greatest slugger in hardball history. That's the punishment that awaits him (other than the eternal damnation, that is).
This guy is as good a statistician as he is a writer.
Apparently, this is a guy who is found in every metro rag's sports staff: The Designated Urinator. His job is not to offer intelligent analysis, it is to be a wild-eyed babbler who "writes stuff just to sell papers." For the health of his coworkers, I hope he zipped up and washed his hands after writing this rant.
espn is a shadow of what it was 10 years ago. the network has become a joke in my opinion.
"No forget about it, I won't bother......... keep hating the black guy "on drugs"."
I fail too see any racial element to the Bariod situation. Bonds made his damn bed, now he needs to sleep in it. Bonds cheated, and he has proven to be a no class jackass his entire career. Race has nothing to do with it.
You can't tell how he reached that figure? He multiplied Bonds' at bats since 98 by the old HR rate.
...or whether or not he included Bonds' 105 homers since 2003, hit while mandatory and random testing has been in effect.
Mandatory and random testing for what?
If they weren't testing for exactly what he was using, they would not have detected what he was using.
I'm telling YOU that you denigrate a black guy (Bonds) by saying he took drugs that were illegal to the game. There is NO PROOF OF THAT! When he took whatever he took they were not illegal.
You are wrong. You are foolish on this.
If you think that you are a racist..... go for it. I never said that you were, Dukie. You seem to have a guilty conscience on that.
By the way, there are a number of other good reasons why the silly numbers that you produced would occur naturally in baseball as a player matures into his mid 30's and later.
Are you a racist??? ........... only you know that.
As The Sundance Kid said early in the movie when the poker player said to him...."if I draw on you, you probably will kill me" .... "there is that possibility."
By the way novice............. he's hitting a homerun on a BUM FRONT LEG THIS YEAR once every 12 at bats. He's most likely not taking any drugs. How do you explain that? You and the rest are clueless on Barry.
Hate someone else.
Who, besides you and other people who don't know jack, is alleging he has used anything illegal since mandatory testing started?
At least the authors of Game of Shadows limit their accusations to testimony and anecdotes, and their detail of alleged juicing only goes up to 2002, the last season before testing.
If you got more, bring it. If you don't, shaddup.
............... on a little league game in which "my" son, Bobby Jr., played:
He struck out three times and lost the game for the team when a ball went through his legs at third base. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we left the parking lot. Gosh, I was proud. A chip off the old block.
LOL
Have you ever met him???
Shut your ignorant mouth if not......... you know as much about Barry Bonds as the rest of the ignorant citizens and D.U'ers know about George Bush. You learn all you "know" from the media. What crap!
RIGHT
I never said "he took drugs that were illegal to the game." The rules of baseball are not the issue. He's cheating his sport and his fans and himself by getting his performance out of a chemistry set, whether the rules of baseball speak to the issue or not.
His race is irrelevant to his juicing, and you bring it up to try to insinuate it is somehow relevant.
It's a crude tactic, and it's not working. But it does speak volumes about you. Just like your "guilty conscience" barb is supposed to imply that "even Petronski knows he's a racist, deep down."
If you read well enough to make it past the first line of my profile, you would have discovered the opposite is true. Try reading it again, genius, and come back and apologize.
Talk about not being confused with facts.
You are ignorant on Barry Bonds. You have never spent a moment of your life with him.
"Hate someone else."
Free country, we can hate who we like for whatever reason we like. Racism isn't illegal, or poor old Joe Morgan would be on his way to jail.
You are an incredible example of a race baitor.
"You seem to have a guilty conscience on that."
"Are you a racist??? ........... only you know that."
No facts, simply toss the race card out, cast aspersions, and watch the ensuing fun.
Bonds would be hated whether he did 'roids or not. He's the classic rich kid with an attitude. No one likes that, regardless of skin tone.
"...silly numbers that you produced would occur naturally in baseball as a player matures into his mid 30's and later."
Yeah, like slower reaction time and diminished physical strength. Oh wait, you don't want to hear about that.
I'm not alleging anything. I'm stating drug testing is specific. If they are not testing for what the subject is using, they will not find it.
Because he knows how effing stupid it's going to look to have an *asterisk* after his record?
Hmmm?
;-)
I don't hate Bonds. I hate what he's done to his sport and his fans and himself.
Do you?
You just have to make my opinion of Bonds personal, because you cannot bring yourself to contemplate the possibility it is principled...that might imply Bonds actually was wrong.
"If you read well enough to make it past the first line of my profile"
And I did. Nothing worthy of an apology, and I still find your comments here to be race baiting, which leads me to wonder about your character.
Bye.
"You are ignorant on Barry Bonds. You have never spent a moment of your life with him."
And this means that we can only have opinions of people we know personally?
Do I what? Do I know "Petronski is a racist, deep down?" No. I know the opposite to be true.
But by asking, you've proved my point. Thanks.
"You are ignorant on baseball. I have no time for someone who never played at a very high level."
Wow, you have no clue as to what my baseball skills or background is. Yet you feel free to make such a statement. You are without logic and reason.
Run along little boy.
Cite an example. Don't chicken out.
Man, the congregants of the Church of Barroid are staring to lose their grip, aren't they?
LM*O
Considering what Bonds has said about Babe Ruth, and whites in general, it seems pretty silly to accuse someone on THIS site of being "racist" - unless of course that's the only form of argument you have in your arsenal. In which case, by all means, go right ahead...
I'm going to the game on Weds. If I catch it, the ball is getting tossed back on the field. ;-)
It means the old ADAGE for wine is true for HUMAN BEINGS as well.
He get's better with AGE!!
Don't we all?
< /sarcasm >
"Cite an example. Don't chicken out."
And this is how it digresses. No longer is it about Barry Bonds, it's about our own racial attitudes. Nice. Did Jesse Jackson teach you that?
I have no more time for the childish exchange you present. You go on defending, it'll make you feel good.
Yes, yes,... name-calling...
the last refuge of witless...
I'd say, "fire away," but it's apparent you're unarmed.
Wrong? That is a very odd term to use in baseball. Correct?
There certainly is a real chance that he used "enhancers". I, as an old player for years, just love his swing (to me the best, most compact swing in baseball history) and know that ANY drugs would NEVER give that man that wonderful, disciplined swing and eye at the plate.
And I'm sick of people (not necessarily you) who don't know enough about hitting a baseball to understand that!
NO DRUGS would ever give him the ability he has ...........PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now..... I must go back to work.
You people who are displeased by Barry need help.
You can't cheat when it is not against the rules.
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