7 more home runs to match Hank Aaron. I would love to be at the ballpark to see that happen.
I would also love to see the fans that taunt him from the safety of the stands do it to his face in a place where no one can see…
You mean like the place where he goes to juice up?
That hasn’t been proved.
In Houston, lot of focus is on Craig Biggio getting 3000 hits. I would find it a very interesting challeng for the Sports media (e.g. ESPN, Fox, etc.) if they both happened the same day. Obviously 3000 hits is not near the HR record, but an incredible accomplishment and think most would agree that “how” Biggio got his record is probably more what MLB would like to promote. Don’t think it will happen, but that would be fun to see the spin show.
Riiiiiighhhtttt…his head got naturally bigger…had nothing to do with HGH, oh wait, that’s impossible…
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This whole thing has been very dissappointing for me, leading up to this new record. This is argubly the biggest record in baseball, and it is getting almost no play. Barry is suffering the same fate as the doped cyclists right now. People don’t care about the big names, and can barley keep their interest on the races. This will pass, and new heros will be born, but the Tylers, Bassos, and Ulrichs of the world have become nobodys…THis record of Barry should be front page news here in the states, but as you said, he will most likely be booed all the way down the stretch. Americans know he cheated to this record, and they will be very bitter, when a true hero like Hank Aaron gets erased from the record books…
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“That hasn’t been proved.”
No. But I think it has been proved that this has nothing to do with triathlon. 
As Ken Griffey Jr. returns to Seattle this weekend one can only hope he stays in the game long enough and can stay healthy enough to eclipse Bonds who incidentally has admitted to using steroid cream but thought it was something else…Jr…now that’s a swing.
Bonds admitted to taking the Cream and the Clear, he also stated that he didn’t know they were steroids.
So, he admitted to taking steroids, just not to knowing they were steroids.
Just the facts.
What’s interesting is that A-Rod hitting 800 homers if he hits XX homers for the next Y years is getting a lot of discussion (rather than celebrating Bonds).
I would have thought that we’d have more people angry that Bonds is going to break the record. But, what I am seeing a lot of is people that are tired of talking about Bonds. It’s like they want him to break the record, and then just disappear.
Well since we’re continuing to get further off track… 
I agree, Griffey has a pretty swing…I played in college with a guy that has a very similar swing (and hit his fair share of HR’s as well!). It’s weird that I’ve never seen a guy hit from the other side of the plate with that swing…are there any with that same form?
Speaking of my old team mate and that pretty swing: I remember we subbed into a slow-pitch softball league one night 3 years ago and watched my friend hit a softball to what is our best estimate of about 435 ft (nothing out past the 300ft wall but grass). I’d never seen, and have yet to see another, softball fly that far and high.
We found out later it was a corked bat though! Very Sosa-like of him!
Not to worry, all will be forgotten in a few years when ARod breaks it again.
They did a satire piece on NPR yesterday. In it, Bonds broke the record. Bud Selig was unable to attend, so Floyd Landis presented Bonds with the recognition award. It was hilarious.
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I just like how people seem to believe baseball players were saints before the steroid era. I hear about Bonds not respecting the game by doing them and lying about it and think of the pictures of Ty Cobb sharpening his spikes before a game.
I would have thought that we’d have more people angry that Bonds is going to break the record. But, what I am seeing a lot of is people that are tired of talking about Bonds. ]]
Tha’t exactly what I’m seeing too…Just like Ulrich, and soon Basso and a few other cyclists. People just stop talking about them, and move on. This Bonds thing has been going on so long, that we are already in the apathy stage, and you are exactly right, just get the record and we can all move on. It’s like a funeral procession in most the country, everyone looking for something else to talk about in baseball. He’ll get a little pop at the end, but anticlimatic to most fans…It will be interesting to see if he gets the Hall of Fame in 5 years. Old Pete is still struggling with that one, and he just bet on baseball, didn’t actually cheat his performance…
Doing steroids and sharpening your spikes are two different things entirely when we’re talking about extending high-level performance through artificial means.
Ty Cobb is probably the most disliked player in baseball history. But, people respect his stats because they are non-drug aided. People look at Bonds hitting 756 and wonder “How many homers would he have without drugs?” … and they conclude it would be much less than 756, and thusly don’t value the accomplishment. Without steroids, Bonds may have aroung 650 homers, and we’d all be buzzing “He only has about 100 more bombs to go … he could do that in 3 years!”
Bonds is breaking the most sacred record in all of sports, no one cares (because of the personality and the cheating), the commissioner isn’t likely to attend, and Hank Aaron won’t be there, etc. Shameful and embarrassing. I remember Aaron making favorable comments about the prospect that Griffey was “on pace” to break his record some years ago … so I don’t think Hank is being bitter about his record being broken, but is senstive about how it is being broken. With all he endured on the way to breaking the record, I feel he is justified.
I really don’t know what is worse, Barry Bonds cheating his way to breaking one of the most hallowed records in sport or that there are people who still believe he didn’t take PED (even after he admitted it!).
All baseball stats are tainted in one way or another. Every era has had its “steroid” equivalent. Babe Ruth never had to face black or latino pitchers, they didn’t have bullpens or 5 deep rotations back then either and he hit a lot of homers off dead arms. Mickey Mantle almost certainly did amphetamines as did most players of that era. Wether its racism or roids you can never compare stats and come to any sort of conclusive answer that player X is better than player Y.
Barry Bonds has always been a power hitter even when he was a rookie. IN his rookie season he wasn’t called up until about July and he still hit 16 homers. Every year since he has been a consistent power hitter with just one year thats completely off the bell curve, 2001 when he hit 73. He did have a significant jump in 200 when the team moved to Pac Bell Park with a shorter right field, but that 73 year was unreal. He was so dialled in it was scary. I think he walked almost 200 times and STILL hit 73 homers.
I’m pretty sure he watched the Sosa and McGuire show in 2000 and decided it was time to join the steroid club because he knew he was better then those guys and all that limelight rightfully belonged to him…and it did, no matter how big a jerk you think the guy is.
Bonds played most of his career in Candlestick Park where the wind knocked down more homers than you could count. If he’s been in a proper ballpark all those years he’s be at 800 right now.