Posted on 08/08/2007 4:58:54 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Uh...been watching any TV the last 12 hours?
That’s the darn truth. He is a phenomenal hitter.
Bonds is a loser and is still a loser.
He didn’t break any record. It is that simple, regardless of the numbers.
I read something a few days ago that tried to compare the booing that Bonds gets in every city except SF with the racist hate mail and booing that Aaron got back in his day.
“Critics can hate Bonds, they can swear that he became a home-run machine through performance-enhancing drugs, but they can’t erase 756 home runs.”
I’m a critic. Performance-enhancing drugs, you say?
Have you ever seen a man go through a growth spurt in his thirties??
Baseball is getting another self-delivered black eye.
Interestingly, it appears as if Ol’ Hank has come over to Barry’s side. Maybe Michael Jordan did it to him.
Not so fast, Chris. . .
In the story of Barry Bonds; perception is reality.
The score is real. The record is broken; a written history is altered.
But Barry Bonds legacy rises out of doubt, scepticism and scandal. And that will give rise to a competing reality; and there is no taking that away, either.
Barry is the source of both; and he will have to live it.
I think it will probably be Alex Rodriguez who ultimately winds up with the record.
Last I heard from him he didn't want to be anywhere near Bonds when the record was beaten. (Interview from SI a few weeks back.)
Well, I disagree right from the start of the article. I'd much rather see a run at a .400 season or consecutive games with a hit record. And that is just on batting side of the game.
????? What pray tell is the:
1ST MOST CONTROVERSIAL HOME RUN IN BASEBALL HISTORY??????
Don't you love it when writers can just blow past the obvious to attempt the ridiculous?
Go Alex Rodriquez!
And to think Joe Jackson is still not in Cooperstown.
I love how critics just blow past the issue:
The fact is much of Bonds' work from 1999 to 2004 -- during a time many of us believe he was juiced -- can't be touched by an asterisk. Baseball had no policy against steroids during this time.You can't break a rule that wasn't there.
I have no feelings about Bonds whatsoever. I just think that he's being tarnished because he's not a media suck-up.
What is the 1st most controversial homer in history?
Pete Rose should be in the HOF... say, one day after his funeral. I’m serious, I think that a “lifetime ban” should mean exactly that.
Let Pete know that after he dies he is in, but because of his actions and (more importantly) his attitude, he will never live to see it.
As for Bonds...
I don’t care for him and I think it is very probable that he was using substances that are banned today from baseball. But if he was using them before they were banned, I see no reason to star his record.
Some call it “cheating”, but playing by the rules, even when the rules change later, is not cheating. It may be unethical, but it’s not cheating.
Baseball can say Barry Bonds deserves the record, but they can’t make me care.
Frankly, I was surprised to find out that Barry Bonds held the single-season home run record. In all this flurry over 756, I saw that in a story. I realized that I had discounted that record in my mind, because I knew it tainted. I simply did not care that Barry Bonds had broken that record.
I will not care that he has broken this one, either. I fully expect that five years from now I will have no idea who is the current record holder for most home runs in a career. I will be able to picture Hank Aaron’s record blast in my mind for the rest of my life, but I have not even bothered to turn on the TV to see Barry Bond’s 756th home run.
I just don’t care, anymore.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.