Barroid Bonds

[Cinjun]

If someone hits the all time homerun mark and no one cares or watches, does it really matter. I can care less about what he did last night. A-Rod is gonna break his record in about 6-7 years anyway.

What do you all think?

[mihaeagle3]

If someone hits the all time homerun mark and no one cares or watches, does it really matter. I can care less about what he did last night. A-Rod is gonna break his record in about 6-7 years anyway.

What do you all think?

well im not much of a baseball fan but i still respect the sport
as for the hr record, props to him, he can still hit a ball coming that fast at him at his age
even if a-rod breaks it in 6 years, its still 6 years away
we cant celebrate that at this point in time

[Cinjun]

I agree. Steroids or not, it's still 756 home runs. But this one didn't nearly have the same feel & emotion to it as the race between Sosa & Maguire a few years back. I definately think his home runs should read 756* career home runs.

[Jon]

I used to like baseball when I was a kid but then the strike happened and now with everyone using steroids just to be a mediocre player doesn't say much about
how talented they were to begin with. I'm not saying the players 50-60 years ago were any better but when a drunk fat ass like Babe Ruth can do what he did and the guys today need to take steroids and whatever else just to have a chance to beat it tells me they aren't that talented and not worth the millions that they get today. So if someone like Bonds breaks the homerun record I could really care less.

[Luck_e]

back in the day i was a huge Astros and Rangers fan..went to all the Tulsa Drillers games i could...but then i got more into football after the 1994 strike (and might i just give my opinion that a salary cap would kill baseball) and players making millions of dollars to sit on their ass all day bitching about not making enough money to do nothing....then the steroids shit hit...Barry Bonds makes me sick..and i believe that asterisks next to his record needs to be a big fat glaring one...but that's just me..

[rockford80]

Did you guys see what the onion had to say about Bonds? I thought that it was fitting.




Destruction Of National Pastime Given Two-Minute Standing Ovation -- from The Onion

SAN FRANCISCO—A sellout crowd rose to its feet and exploded into ecstatic cheers Tuesday night as Barry Bonds completed the downfall of America's most revered sport by hitting a thundering 435-foot shot into the left field bleachers for career home run No. 756 and tainting baseball's most beloved record.

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Barry-Bonds.article_3.jpg

Celebrations broke out throughout AT&T Park and thousands of flashbulbs went off as Bonds took his ceremonial trip around the bases, his arms raised in a jubilant gesture of triumph as he completed his desecration of baseball. Fireworks filled the night sky to mark the utter destruction of the national pastime, a scramble for the infamous baseball broke out in the stands, and the game was interrupted for 10 minutes in the bottom of the fifth to mark the shameful occasion.

Mike Bacsik, the pitcher who made the difficult and admirable decision to pitch to Bonds as if he were a normal player, and who will forever be known as the man whose fastball was sent out of the park along with the last remnant of baseball's self-respect, could only watch. Bonds would later present Bacsik with an autographed bat.

Moments after Bonds crossed home plate into the loving arms of his family and the eventual judgment of history, he addressed the fans, thanking them for their support on his long, hard road of perverting baseball.

"Thank you very much. I got to thank all of you, all the fans here in San Francisco. It's been fantastic," he said to his deluded and complicit home crowd as his godfather Willie Mays, a fading symbol of what baseball once was, stood at his side.

As soon as Bonds completed his self-congratulation, a self-conscious gasp could be heard as a videotaped message from Hank Aaron was played over the video screen, sending surprise and a fleeting moment of uncomfortable self-awareness through both the crowd and Bonds himself.

"Throughout the past century, the home run has held a special place in baseball and I have been privileged to hold this record for 33 of those years," said Aaron, whose legacy of persevering with profound personal dignity through racism and persecution to become the all-time home run leader will hopefully not be tarnished by public acknowledgment of Bonds.

"I move over now and offer my best wishes to Barry and his family on this historic achievement," Aaron concluded, displaying infinitely more grace than Bonds, baseball fans, and perhaps even baseball itself had any right to ask of him.

Bonds then presented his helmet, gloves, and bat to a steward of the Baseball Hall of Fame for shipment to Cooperstown, where they will be enshrined forever, allowing fathers and sons to come and stare at them glumly as they bear mute witness to baseball's diminished glory.

The Nationals won the game, 8-6

[mihaeagle3]

did everyone else hear about the guy that caught that home run?
he might owe around $210,000 to the irs because of how valuable that ball is.....
how much does that suck?

[Cinjun]

I think that's BS! How can the IRS do that?!

[Poohbear]

If you put an asterisk next to his record, then you should really put an asterisk around this whole era. Barry has become the poster child for baseball's steroid problem.

[mihaeagle3]

I think that's BS! How can the IRS do that?!

i dont know i thought it was stupid as well
apparently they thing the ball is around $640,000 and can charge about 33% for its value
but if barry bonds does get in trouble for steroids and the value of the ball goes down, he could actually file for a loss and get money

[Luck_e]

isn't it funny bonds calls Mr. Echo a "moron" for his online poll of what should happened to the death of baseball as we know it *to incorrectly quote Mr.Onions more than accurate portrayal of this blaspemous event* to me it just shows Bonds disparagement of the sport and how little he thinks of intelligent people who accept the truth he so desperatley *and failing miserably* to deny....but that's just me...what do i know??