This from a man who buys the MLB Extra innings every year and has season tickets to the Rockies.

I have been to (1) count em………..ONE game this year and I have season tickets. Baseball will never be the same.

“Say it ain’t so Joe” just hasnt left my head all summer.

> “This record is not tainted at all. Period.
> You guys can say whatever you want.”

Wrong again, of course.

Again, I doubt the ridiculous Selig would have been on hand to congratulate McGwire, who’s been in hiding ever since his disgraceful performance in front of congress.

But, let’s face it, people get carried away in their idolatry of sports and other figures. A significant portion of th epublic hates A-Rod- not because he’s black nor Hispanic, but because he’s #1 in salary.

How’s that his fault? If someone wants to overpay me- after years of underpay, that makes me bad cuz I accept? Nonsense.

Similarly, BB is a BB, but there is no evidence that steroids improves hand-eye coordination, only strength. Ask the many pro wrestlers who took steroids about how steroids kybosh reflexes. So, claims that his Hulking up lead to his record are dubious. Yes, a few balls that may have hit the tops of walls prob became homers, but that only means that in the last few years he bulked up, we’re celebrating his record this year, not next.

Like Rose, Bonds is HOF. After all, if Ty Cobb and his white hood are in, BB is a no-brainer.

This brings to mind the NFL career rushing leaders, three great runners were within a couple hundred miles of Detroit – Jim Brown, Barry Sanders and Walter Payton.
1) Jim Brown left early and became a controversial political figure.
2) Walter Payton was known as Sweetness because of abilty and personality. He died while waiting for a liver transplant, unlike Mickey Mantle.
3) Barry Sanders,like Brown, left football early even though he was well within the grasp of Payton’s and Brown’s records. His early retirement honored Brown and Payton, and put “games” in their real prespective.

Records are set by both “Sweetness” and ——- like Bonds and Emmitt Smith. Let Bonds join in with the likes of Smith, Cobb and Rose and revel in their selfishness.

On second thought, is it yet possible for Bonds to announce his intention to run for presidency?

Exactly.

Whether or not Barry took the ‘roids, he belongs. All that matters is how his plaque and exhibit are written. It is impossible to deny that, for the last decade and a half, Barry Bonds has been the single greatest baseball player. He has done things at the plate that make a mockery of the record books. He didn’t just compete with history. He humiliated it.

He belongs in the Hall. If he was juiced, he belongs in the hall next to a statue of shrunken testicles. Boo him at the plate, but clap for the fact that he truly was great.

Regardless there is zero evidence they did anything to enhance a player’s performance.

I’m fairly certain Babe Ruth wasn’t cheating because he didn’t play with minorities.

You’re right that everything is relative. Bonds cheated relative to the majority of his peers.

It’s all relative.

Congrats, Barry!

the San Francisco Giants, testified that since 1993, when Bonds was 29 years old, his uniform jersey size has gone from 42 to 52, his hat size has gone from 7 1/8 to 7¼ (despite shaving his head) and his baseball shoe size increased from 10½ to 13… (Newsweek)