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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: Badeye
Well if they let this go on another ten years or so, baseball will be the new professional wrestling, the Steinbrenner family will own the whole thing and it will be a complete joke.
121
posted on
08/06/2007 12:20:44 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Bladerunnuh
Chelsea Clinton ?
122
posted on
08/06/2007 12:21:25 PM PDT
by
pyx
(Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
To: normy
Look for A-Rod to really break the record in about 6 years. THAT will be the true record.
123
posted on
08/06/2007 12:22:16 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: Lee'sGhost
“I find this observation to be the lamest thing ever stated. No one can show you gravity, but you know its there. No one really knows what electricity is, but they know it exists. No one really knows where Michael Jackson comes from, and yet we know its from an alternate universe.
Anyone who has ever spent any time body building or bulking up can see that Bonds is juiced on steroids. I dont need for him to fail a test to know he uses or at used them.”
Yeah but you aren’t the Commissioner of Baseball and you don’t have to live by the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
To: Badeye
Rose, Concepcion, Morgan, Perez, Bench, Foster, Geronimo, and Griffey. What a team!
125
posted on
08/06/2007 12:22:45 PM PDT
by
carton253
(And if that time does come, then draw your swords and throw away the scabbards.)
To: BGHater
Guess you never been to Petco Park..where Bonds hit
the 755th.....Pitcher’s love it...so there? jK
To: wagglebee
Well if they let this go on another ten years or so, baseball will be the new professional wrestling, the Steinbrenner family will own the whole thing and it will be a complete joke.
It became a joke in 1998, now its just sad...so very very sad.
127
posted on
08/06/2007 12:32:34 PM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: carton253
Rose, Concepcion, Morgan, Perez, Bench, Foster, Geronimo, and Griffey. What a team!
Yes, it was. I could have pitched and won a few games for those hitters, with that defense.
128
posted on
08/06/2007 12:34:06 PM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: woofer
One can only hope that an * will always reside next to the name Bonds in the record books
I'm with you.
I think it's high time that baseball finally admitted that some or many of it records are tainted. Baseball needs a system that will acknowledges all records but with "*" (asterisks) next to the record and the record-holder to indicate the conditions in which those records were attained.
Thus, a record-holder known to actively use steroids or any performance enhancing drugs or devices would be labeled with "*D" for drug usage. A user of a mechanical device would get labeled with "*M" (those might include "corked bats").. A player suspected of drugs or mechanical methods but unconfirmed could get labeled "*U" for uncertain or unconfirmed. In all cases where drugs or mechanical methods were used or suspected, the additional tag of "*C" could be inserted to signify a "Cheater".
If a label is needed to indicate a person that didn't need to cheat then we could perhaps use the "PD" indicator for "Pure and Decent".
129
posted on
08/06/2007 12:34:30 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: A_Tradition_Continues
My dad always said that baseball lost its appeal the day they took Dizzy Dean off the air.
And it died completely during the player's strike and we say millionaires fighting with billionaires for a bigger piece of the pie.
To: mysterio
Part of it is there are people who love the GAME. And what we’ve seen through the years is the game being destroyed by certain players like Bonds, owners & “he whose name must not be spoken”. I’m not sure if baseball can ever get back to what it once was. But the Bonds situation is not taking it in the right direction. If baseball is just a stick & a ball to you it won’t make sense. At one time it really was the best game there ever was.
I’m not saying cheating is anything new. But back in the day there was a price to pay for it. Now it’s out in the open. Not only accepted but expected.
131
posted on
08/06/2007 12:46:56 PM PDT
by
Sue Perkick
(And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
To: pyx
Please!!! This is Miss America compared to Chelsea.
132
posted on
08/06/2007 12:50:05 PM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
To: jamese777
133
posted on
08/06/2007 12:51:01 PM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
To: One_who_hopes_to_know
I remember a player saying during that mess that they had to strike or his family would "starve". Felt like "Elvising" my TV.
134
posted on
08/06/2007 12:51:11 PM PDT
by
Sue Perkick
(And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
To: KarlInOhio
Ruth played in 2503 games from 1914- 1935. 1928 had the most games he played in - 154.
Of course the only steroids the Bambino had was beer & hot dogs.
135
posted on
08/06/2007 12:52:38 PM PDT
by
Smittie
To: normy
Yep Aaron and Maris still hold the records in my book.Absolutely. The good thing is roidboy won't have this one long.
136
posted on
08/06/2007 12:55:28 PM PDT
by
Sue Perkick
(And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
To: jamese777
A Padres fan! I’m honored......let me thank all of you San Diego fans for the CLASS you showed! It was much appreciated in San Francisco!
137
posted on
08/06/2007 12:56:46 PM PDT
by
Primetimedonna
( It's SAN FRANCISCO, not Frisco.)
To: billbears
Baloney. Bonds WAS an excellent balllayer. He decided to forgo that to become an obsessive home run machine, through CHEATING. His record is bogus. Watching him play is ridiculous. His artifically bloated body; jogging on singles, ground balls, etc; his now-poor outfield play. That is not the game of baseball I care about, it is essentially a non-stop home run derby with little or no regard for the actual execution of a great sport. Baseball is prospering today without the HR excesses of the 90s - the sooner Bonds gets his cheesy record and retires the better.
To: Smittie; Trajan88
FYI - baseball is enjoying a resuregence in popularity. Park attendance is at an all-time high and TV ratings are climbing up steadily this season. Citing games with low attendance means little - there are a few bad teams every year and out of 81 home games people will not go out of their way every night to see them play.
To: Smittie; Trajan88
FYI - baseball is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Park attendance is at an all-time high and TV ratings are climbing up steadily this season. Citing games with low attendance means little - there are a few bad teams every year and out of 81 home games people will not go out of their way every night to see them play.
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