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Barry Bonds' Home Run Record Tainted by Mechanical Device
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| August 06, 2007
| Michael Witte
Posted on 08/06/2007 10:19:31 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
How anyone can take baseball seriously is beyond my understanding.
And I can still name the starting eight for each year of the Big Red Machine of the 70’s.
I stopped going to games when they went on strike back in the early 1980’s, and haven’t attended a baseball game since.
This is just another example of why.
Way to go Selig, you destroyed your own customer base and the GAME itself.
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:22:33 AM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Mo Vaughn used to wear one of Cam Neely’s elbow pads. It looked huge for the time. Compared to Bonds, it was nothing.
I thought MLB had put standards about the size of elbow pads.
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:23:20 AM PDT
by
Holicheese
(Zap Razdowler Rules!)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Bob Gibson / Nolan Ryan / Don Drysdale would have put his butt in the dirt.
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:24:17 AM PDT
by
Lost Highway
(I don't know what the world may need but a V8 engines a good start for me)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
One can only hope that an “*” will always reside next to the name “Bonds” in the record books
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:24:43 AM PDT
by
woofer
(Some strive to soar like an eagle, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Well, all I can say is congratulations to Henry Aaron for hitting 755 home runs!
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Excuse me but isn’t this a GAME? IMHO professional sports is an oxymoron. Like professional wrestling it’s entertainment not sports. Want sports? Go watch a Little League game.
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Oh please. Players have been trying to enhance their performance since the game was invented. Spikes in shoes, braces for knees and elbows, weightlifting straps for back support, vitamins, steaks, protein diets, aspirin and ibuprofin.... something new every year. Point is, you can have all that stuff, but if you haven’t got the talent, you’re gonna strike out.
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:26:22 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Smaller ball parks. Less talent in the Majors. Thats all.
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:26:27 AM PDT
by
BGHater
(Bread and Circuses)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
So then every hitter in baseball is free to use the same Barry Bonds "elbow armor" device? One has to wonder why they don't if it offers such an unfair hitting advantage.
A Rod seems to have made it to 500 with no need for such things as drugs and elbow hinges. Hopefully he will eclipse Bonds' record and then it will be "Barry who?"
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:27:48 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: irish guard
Now that was a magical event. Barry Bonds....so what?
To: Ben Mugged
I think the point is that it used to be both — it was entertainment AND a legitimate sport.
To: woofer
Now it will have to be a double “**”
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:30:08 AM PDT
by
centurion316
(Democrats - Supporting Al Qaida Worldwide)
To: Chi-townChief
Bush lied. Hank’s been tied.
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:30:41 AM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: Ben Mugged
Excuse me but isnt this a GAME? Not at this level. It is an industry.
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:31:11 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Is there any reason that every hitter could not wear the same thing???
If it made that much difference ever big league hitter would have one of their very own.
For this to be true Bonds would have had to have been a poor hitter before he started wearing it. Bonds has been a great hitter for a long time.
Just another BS post.
To: Holicheese
They do have a size limitation. They grandfathered Bonds womanly (apologies to women) armor, however. How lame was that? At least the spitballers who were grandfathered were making a living on a legit pitch prior to the rule. This hinged armor crap is in excusable. God how I’d love to pitch, throw three intentional balls when the situation deemed it appropriate, then test the integrity of that pansy pad.
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Interesting read and it makes a lot of sense to me........
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posted on
08/06/2007 10:32:39 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(If your cat was big enough it would probably eat you)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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