Alex Rodriguez belted his 500th homeruns today to become the youngest ever to hit 500 homeruns. On the same night, Barry Bonds belted his 755th homeruns to tie the record of Hank Aaron.
Who will eventually end up with more homeruns? Barry or Alex? Who is a greater homerun player?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
A-Rod!
A-rod has a chance to do it as he is the youngest to hit the 500 mark. I’m not so impressed by Bonds “roids” enhanced results. That’s not the kind of victory that means much.
Ruth did it pretty much on bacon, beer and cigars.
Any “record” Bonds might break should be void…he used anabolic steroids.They’ll ban Pete Rose from baseball for life but let this guy go down in the record books??
Can’t agree with that at all.
Did you see the size of his head!
The Anons of 1.07 and 2.25 accuse Bonds of taking steroids: this is denied by Bonds and has not been proved.
These anons are therefore misleading the reader, stating their opinions as if they were facts.
I therefore request that their posts are deleted by the blog owner.
Willie Mays,3rd on the list, would have been the all-time greatest HR king had he not volunteered for military duty in the Korean conflict.
The evidence that Bonds has used steroids and Human Growth Hormone is undeniable. See for example this cover story in Sports Illustrated, “The Truth about Barry Bonds” in 2006:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/03/06/growth0313/
Bonds was a great player, but was tempted to cheat. He deserves no accolades for breaking this record.
>>Ruth did it pretty much on bacon, beer and cigars. >>
I have been doing this in chess for years without improvement. I have to switch over to baseball.
And everyone tells me to cut back on beer. Come on folks. Gimme a Break and pass me another beer.
Where can I buy some “roids”. Look out baseball here I come ready or not.
4:52 Anon: Is it the anons or Bonds who is doing the misleading? (BTW: Bonds doesn’t deny using steroids–he only claims that he didn’t know he was doing them.)
ESPN is doing a very good job of belittling Barry’s achievements. They are all but short of directly saying it: they are portraying him as a drug taking cheat.
IMO this is a case of the ugly racist side of America coming out. Yuk!
“Innocent until proven guilty” is not a saying meant just for lawyers; the public, specially, a public news service organization (like ESPN) must assume innocence and portray Barry as innocent (until and unless he is proven as guilty!). I find their news coverage of Barry bonds disgusting and a case of swaying public opinion to think him as guilty. I wish “attitude” could also be sued; then the ESPN commentators would be in jail, guilty of violating the “innocent until proven guilty” law”!
A-rod is a lot better. Bonds got there by steroids. There is no evidence to show that A-rod did any performance-enhancing drugs.
There is no evidence it’s about race. I’m sick of all these people playing the race card where it shouldn’t be played and crying wolf. To a lot of people, if a White guy is accused of something with a lot of good evidence against him, he’s automatically guilty. But if it’s a Black guy being accused of it with the same evidence being used against him, it’s automatically about race. Don’t cry wolf when there’s no wolf.
Anon 8:24. Trotting out the race card is about as low as the the politically correct can go. Bonds, Mcguire same diff. Defend him all you want, Bonds himself admitted to “roids” use.
If American were so truly racist, this ball player wouldn’t be hauling down a king’s ransom. In what other country could he do that in?
He brought this on himself, it’s chemically enhanced cheating. MLB’s rules protected him from legal prosecution, but not from the court of public opinion. Most people understand, a cheat is a cheat. His accomplishment is tainted.
I think admitting it is “proof enough” for me.