All you bond apologist fucks, esp. bradley, obviously do not respect the game nor probably even know about the death threats that hank aaron got when he broke babe ruth's record. keep running your mouth spouting your contrarian teenage bullshit, it looks great on you.

dr.awkward already addressed the insanely inaccurate assessment that any person over the age of 10 doesn't know that Hank Aaron received death threats as he approached Ruth's record, so i'll move on to this:

keep running your mouth spouting your contrarian teenage bullshit, it looks great on you.

what looks great on us? the things we're spouting? how can sound look great on us?

whiskerando wrote:

keep running your mouth spouting your contrarian teenage bullshit, it looks great on you.

what looks great on us? the things we're spouting? how can sound look great on us?

I think he's talking about your Ken Griffey Jr. jersey.

Look, don't get me wrong. Barry Bonds is a great baseball player.

What bothers me really, is MLB, not Bonds. MLB mortgaged it's legacy post-strike by allowing assholes like mcgwire and sosa to use steroids. Bonds, who was obviously clean at the time, saw these average players quickly over take his 30-40 HR avg a season (which if you remember 40 HRs was quite an achievement) on their way to eclipsing his deserved title of "best player in the last 20 years."

So, MLB essentially sold out their best player by allowing the cheating, which forced Bonds to cheat in order to compete.

I have no anger towards Bonds at all. Being angry at Bonds is like shooting the messenger. If anything I feel pity, because he was clearly a great player who was forced to cheat by MLB. Sometimes, I'm glad he broke the record, because he deserves something after MLB fucked him. His legacy will obviously always be tarnished.

However, without steroids, he would not have broken Aaron's record, which stands as a testament of many great things. Issues of race, hard work, etc, which need to survive. Bonds breaking the record, only destroys a great symbol and replaces it. It's like clarence thomas replacing thurgood marshall. It's not the same. Actually that's not fair, because Bonds is truly a great player, although a stigmatized one. Clarence is joke.

I celebrated Bonds breaking McGwire's single season record. He wasn't worthy of holding it. A one trick pony who without steroids was obviously a middle of the road performer. Even though he was obviously using, I felt that if Maris couldn't have it, then definitely McGwire shouldn't either. At least Bonds is a great player.

Bonds deserves to go down in history as one of the top players ever in baseball. We're talking Ruth, Mays, cobb, williams, hornsby, etc.

Instead MLB fucked over it's best player by allowing cheating. MLB is to blame.

So, Bonds breaking the record is a wrong, but perhaps two wrongs do make a right in the end.

Another analogy is Iraq. going in there was wrong. leaving is wrong too, but what else is there to do?

Lemuel Gulliver wrote:Good thing Bonds hired more council.

That dude is nuts.