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Title: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Old_Rooster on April 19, 2007, 10:49:48 AM
Come on all Pitchers on every team, step up, be a man and begin throwing at this clowns head now and try to end his career  before he ruins baseball forever!  KILL BARRY BONDS!
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Post by: pumpster on April 19, 2007, 10:54:14 AM
A shame he wasn't at Virginia Tech Monday. ;)
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Post by: Dos Equis on April 19, 2007, 10:56:21 AM
I was hoping for a grand jury indictment.   :-\
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Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 19, 2007, 11:01:31 AM
Can't wait till he breaks the record. Being a Giants fan it will still be a record regardless of how anyone feels about Bonds.
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Post by: Dos Equis on April 19, 2007, 11:24:20 AM
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Post by: Old_Rooster on April 19, 2007, 11:32:43 AM
Can't wait till he breaks the record. Being a Giants fan it will still be a record regardless of how anyone feels about Bonds.

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GOD BLESS HAMMERING HANK, FOREVER THE HOME RUN KING!

I think Bonds hat sized increased again, bastardd is still on HGH!
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Post by: Earl1972 on April 19, 2007, 11:44:47 AM
I want him to break the record because I love to see these baseball "purists" cry

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Post by: blinky on April 19, 2007, 02:20:02 PM
anyone else hear what hank said about bonds breaking his record?

he said he wont be at the game the day it happens.
what does that tell you about bonds?  :-\


 
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Post by: danielson on April 19, 2007, 02:33:05 PM
anyone else hear what hank said about bonds breaking his record?

he said he wont be at the game the day it happens.
what does that tell you about bonds?  :-\


 

Bonds has a lot of haters, he must be doing something right! He is not the only one to use chemical assistance in MLB guys.
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Post by: Sergio Rules 77 on April 19, 2007, 03:27:28 PM
I loved Bill Maher's comments on the Tonight Show not long ago where he said "It's fun to watch a freakish hulk hit a ball to the moon" and "He must have gone through puberty at 27 to get this big without drugs". That about sums it up. Much like pro bodybuilding, it's become a massive joke.

SERGIO!!!!
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Post by: blinky on April 19, 2007, 03:58:56 PM
for me (and im sure alot of people) i dont hate bonds because he "probably" did steroids. i hate him because he is an arogant, rude asshole.


im sure if it was mark mcgwire who was about to break the record people would feel alot differently about it. and im sure hank aaron would be at that game.
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Post by: legbreaker on April 19, 2007, 04:06:18 PM
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GOD BLESS HAMMERING HANK, FOREVER THE HOME RUN KING!

I think Bonds hat sized increased again, bastardd is still on HGH!

So are many baseball players, minor and major, whether or not they hit 700 home runs or 10.
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Post by: UPINTHEMGUTS on April 19, 2007, 10:03:10 PM
A shame he wasn't at Virginia Tech Monday. ;)

Why would you say something like that??? ??? ??? ???


What a dick...........
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Post by: pumpster on April 19, 2007, 11:11:34 PM
Why would you say something like that??? ??? ??? ???


What a dick...........
Shut up it wasn't serious. Just wishful thinking. ;)
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Post by: windsor88 on April 19, 2007, 11:42:58 PM
for me (and im sure alot of people) i dont hate bonds because he "probably" did steroids. i hate him because he is an arogant, rude asshole.


im sure if it was mark mcgwire who was about to break the record people would feel alot differently about it. and im sure hank aaron would be at that game.

Mark McGwire is a fucking jackoff as well.  For Picture day at Busch Stadium that guy stood back about 100 feet from the fans while all other players were right at the wall signing balls, pics, and posing for pics while joking with fans.  Fuck McGwire.
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Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 20, 2007, 02:12:51 AM
People choose who they want to be their heroes. Rickey Henderson owns the stolen base record, but no one has really commented on Rickey's physique when broke the record. Bonds is just hated by a lot of people exclusively the media because he refused to speak to them for so many years.
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Post by: The_Iron_Disciple on April 20, 2007, 02:17:30 AM
I want him to break the record because I love to see these baseball "purists" cry

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Agreed. Stop griping about it and shut your f*cking mouth already ! I don't give two sh*ts whether Bonds breaks the record or not ... it won't change a thing about what I think of Hank or Barry !

* The Iron Disciple proceeds to MELTDOWN ... *
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Post by: bmacsys on April 20, 2007, 05:00:05 AM
Mark McGwire is a fucking jackoff as well.  For Picture day at Busch Stadium that #### stood back about 100 feet from the fans while all other players were right at the wall signing balls, pics, and posing for pics while joking with fans.  Fuck McGwire.

I hear the road they named after McGwire in St. Louis is going to be changed back to what it was.
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Post by: bmacsys on April 20, 2007, 05:01:34 AM
People choose who they want to be their heroes. Rickey Henderson owns the stolen base record, but no one has really commented on Rickey's physique when broke the record. Bonds is just hated by a lot of people exclusively the media because he refused to speak to them for so many years.

Flip, Ricky was jacked from day one in 1979 when he was a rookie. Henderson is a genetic freak.
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Post by: Earl1972 on April 20, 2007, 07:54:29 AM
Shut up it wasn't serious. Just wishful thinking. ;)

pumpster reveals his true colors ::)

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Post by: pumpster on April 20, 2007, 08:04:26 AM
pumpster reveals his true colors ::)

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LOL Sorry you should've been there too.
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Post by: Always Sore on April 20, 2007, 08:42:06 AM
LOL Sorry you should've been there too.

LMAO..nice response. ;D
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Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 20, 2007, 01:58:05 PM
Flip, Ricky was jacked from day one in 1979 when he was a rookie. Henderson is a genetic freak.
And was jacked into his 40's with little or no slow down in speed? I'd like to know if he was natural.
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Post by: Earl1972 on April 20, 2007, 03:18:48 PM
how do people know aaron wasn't juiced?

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Post by: the Pure Majestic on April 20, 2007, 03:45:22 PM
how do people know aaron wasn't juiced?

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Doesn't matter...
He broke a record the way you're "supposed to" in baseball.  He hit off his front foot, which is supposed to take away power. 
So, he broke the record EVEN THOUGH HE HIT WRONG. 

Same reason Ruth is so loved.  He set records EVEN THOUGH HE WAS A DRUNK. 

If Bonds was a fat drunk, people would be holding prayer vigils hoping he breaks the record. 
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Post by: legbreaker on April 20, 2007, 04:42:11 PM
And was jacked into his 40's with little or no slow down in speed? I'd like to know if he was natural.

No one that isn't his close friend will probably never know, but I know many natural people in their 40's that run the ironman triathalon in hawwaii and I also know many people in their 40's that use more stuff then I ever did and don't look good, don't run fast, can't hit a baseball, etc.

I'm sure most pro athletes used stuff in the 80's...by then the olympic swimming teams, gymnastic (male and female) teams and most other sports were using it.

A ny mets pitcher in the late 80 used steroids. 
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Post by: blinky on April 20, 2007, 07:08:22 PM


If Bonds was a fat drunk, people would be holding prayer vigils hoping he breaks the record. 

no they would still hate him cause hes an asshole  >:(
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Post by: americanbulldog on April 22, 2007, 06:21:31 PM
no they would still hate him cause hes an asshole  >:(

Too bad his personality is clouding the skills he exhibits.  The guy was a 4 tool guy.  Before the grand jury testimony, Big Mac was given a pass.  He, along with Sammy, were the ushers of the GH/AAS controversy.  Barry is just a jackass to reporters, so no one likes him.  He made careers for Jeff Kent, Bobby Bonilla, Matt Williams or anyone who hit in front of him or behind him. 
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 23, 2007, 06:42:04 AM
People choose who they want to be their heroes. Rickey Henderson owns the stolen base record, but no one has really commented on Rickey's physique when broke the record. Bonds is just hated by a lot of people exclusively the media because he refused to speak to them for so many years.



Henderson and Bonds are two of the best all-around players to ever play baseball, whether or not they ever used anything doesn't matter to me, you don't gain athletic ability from them and those two had enough talent to make 6 good players. Another old head who still plays is Julio Franco, dudes in his late 40's now (50 next year). He isn't the best ever and doesn't put up crazy numbers but he has the talent and ability of those much younger them him (sometimes 20yrs younger) while maintaining a great physique which enables him to keep up. Players like these guys a few and far between but drugs or not they were meant to be great ball players.
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Post by: big L dawg on April 23, 2007, 07:56:09 AM
true....but bonds is still a bitch who like mike tyson will fade into bolivian when he retires after this year.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Old_Rooster on April 23, 2007, 08:31:49 AM


Henderson and Bonds are two of the best all-around players to ever play baseball, whether or not they ever used anything doesn't matter to me, you don't gain athletic ability from them and those two had enough talent to make 6 good players. Another old head who still plays is Julio Franco, dudes in his late 40's now (50 next year). He isn't the best ever and doesn't put up crazy numbers but he has the talent and ability of those much younger them him (sometimes 20yrs younger) while maintaining a great physique which enables him to keep up. Players like these guys a few and far between but drugs or not they were meant to be great ball players.
sure he was a great player, never would have broken aarons record without medical assistance.   thats the only point...
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 23, 2007, 11:56:27 AM
sure he was a great player, never would have broken aarons record without medical assistance.   thats the only point...


Well how do you feel about Ruth never having to hit against black pitchers???
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Post by: blinky on April 23, 2007, 12:21:51 PM

Well how do you feel about Ruth never having to hit against black pitchers???

who cares..its irrelevant.
 
you could do the same with lots of stuff like that....
what if ruth and aaron had access to the drugs the guys do now??
what if the the pitchers and hitters had access to the kind of training knowledge they have today??
what if bonds had to hit against the great pitchers in the AL more?? 
what if asian players came into the league sooner??

you could do the "what if" all day and in the end none of it matters.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 23, 2007, 12:46:47 PM
who cares..its irrelevant.
 
you could do the same with lots of stuff like that....
what if ruth and aaron had access to the drugs the guys do now??
what if the the pitchers and hitters had access to the kind of training knowledge they have today??
what if bonds had to hit against the great pitchers in the AL more?? 
what if asian players came into the league sooner??

you could do the "what if" all day and in the end none of it matters.


That's my point, either way it goes Bonds is one of the greatest players ever.
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Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 23, 2007, 01:00:53 PM
Only 16 more to go. And a stolen base yesterday. Go Barry "U.S." Bonds!
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Post by: blinky on April 23, 2007, 01:53:06 PM

That's my point, either way it goes Bonds is one of the greatest players ever.

ya i agree. hes one of the best hitters ever for sure.






but hes still a complete asshole   >:(
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Post by: pumpster on April 23, 2007, 02:24:44 PM
Except that his home run numbers went up big time in the early-mid 90s onwards. He's not even close without vitamins. ;D

Great ball player yes, great home run hitter without assistance, no.

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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 23, 2007, 03:39:09 PM
ya i agree. hes one of the best hitters ever for sure.






but hes still a complete asshole   >:(


He also had 8 Gold Gloves and over 500 Steals ;)
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Post by: the Pure Majestic on April 23, 2007, 03:39:46 PM
Except that his home run numbers went up big time in the early-mid 90s onwards. He's not even close without vitamins. ;D

Great ball player yes, great home run hitter without assistance, no.



You're a moron.  
He has only hit over 50 home runs in a year ONCE.  
That isn't some major output increase.  
He went from a low 30's a year guy, with some years in the 20's, to a low 40's a year guy, with years in the 30's.  

Everyone thinks he went from 10 homers a year, to 70 home runs every single year.  He had 1 year of huge numbers, and many, many other years of consistency.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 23, 2007, 03:45:46 PM
You're a moron.  
He has only hit over 50 home runs in a year ONCE.  
That isn't some major output increase.  
He went from a low 30's a year guy, with some years in the 20's, to a low 40's a year guy, with years in the 30's.  

Everyone thinks he went from 10 homers a year, to 70 home runs every single year.  He had 1 year of huge numbers, and many, many other years of consistency.


Funny thing is after he hit 73 no one wanted to pitch to him, he broke his own record for walks multiple times throughout his career through the 90's and after 00'. He had one season I think like 03 or so where he had more home runs then strike outs 45-42 I believe along with also being the first since Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle to go over .500 with OBP% and setting the record at just over .600%. He wasn't just a power hitter at all, he was like a Tony Gwynn with more power and speed.
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Post by: the Pure Majestic on April 23, 2007, 04:17:13 PM

Funny thing is after he hit 73 no one wanted to pitch to him, he broke his own record for walks multiple times throughout his career through the 90's and after 00'. He had one season I think like 03 or so where he had more home runs then strike outs 45-42 I believe along with also being the first since Ted Williams and Mickey Mantle to go over .500 with OBP% and setting the record at just over .600%. He wasn't just a power hitter at all, he was like a Tony Gwynn with more power and speed.

Exactly. 
Juice doesn't increase your ability to pass on bad pitches. 


I personally love Bonds' attitude.  The media treats him like shit, so he doesn't talk to them. 
Most people hate Bonds because they think they're supposed to.  They don't even know why in the hell they hate him.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 23, 2007, 04:24:37 PM
Exactly. 
Juice doesn't increase your ability to pass on bad pitches. 


I personally love Bonds' attitude.  The media treats him like shit, so he doesn't talk to them. 
Most people hate Bonds because they think they're supposed to.  They don't even know why in the hell they hate him.


Yeah someone said something at the gym today about how he's an asshole and doesn't talk to the media of really anyone for that matter. I said what's wrong with the guy wanting to be left alone and have a personal life, not everyone in sports wants to be plastered all over t.v. in comericials or make tons of public appearances. I respect him and his privacy and until he does something rude to me I consider him one of my Top three fav Ball players of all time.
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Post by: Camel Jockey on April 23, 2007, 04:46:17 PM
Come on all Pitchers on every team, step up, be a man and begin throwing at this clowns head now and try to end his career  before he ruins baseball forever!  KILL BARRY BONDS!

Weren't you a Barry Bonds guy? You even resorted to playing the race card for Barry..

Changed your tune?
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Post by: pumpster on April 23, 2007, 04:49:31 PM
Exactly. 
Juice doesn't increase your ability to pass on bad pitches. 


I personally love Bonds' attitude.  The media treats him like shit, so he doesn't talk to them. 
Most people hate Bonds because they think they're supposed to.  They don't even know why in the hell they hate him.

We have a batting expert here bwahahahahaahahahah When was the last time you batted in the majors ahole? ;D

Of course you luv his atttitude, you relate to the fact he's a dink.

I already knew his production genius; neither you nor i know when he started his vitamins in relation to that change in output. ;)

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Post by: Camel Jockey on April 23, 2007, 04:52:53 PM
Didn't the guy's shoe size grow by nearly 5?  :-\
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Post by: pumpster on April 23, 2007, 04:57:21 PM
JUICE WASN'T A HUGE FACTOR ACCORDING TO OUR EXPERTS HERE.. ::)
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Post by: big L dawg on April 23, 2007, 09:56:38 PM
his team mates all think hes an ass hole.not just the media and fans
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Post by: legbreaker on April 24, 2007, 01:07:08 AM
JUICE WASN'T A HUGE FACTOR ACCORDING TO OUR EXPERTS HERE.. ::)

Pumpster, not that I don't think he used/uses stuff (everyone does) but the physique comparison really shouldn't mean much.

At 16 I went from 169 (contest weight) to 222 8 months later at 17 years old with hard training and enormous amounts of food...Box of pasta, dozen eggs, chicken, potato's, oatmeal etc...I ate probably 8 times a day.

How many years is this weight comparison over?  he is a grown man with a great strength training program. 

Ya know how many people I see everymonth that use more stuff than most gym goers and are not even 215 pounds???  Too many...
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 24, 2007, 02:16:03 AM
Pumpster, not that I don't think he used/uses stuff (everyone does) but the physique comparison really shouldn't mean much.

At 16 I went from 169 (contest weight) to 222 8 months later at 17 years old with hard training and enormous amounts of food...Box of pasta, dozen eggs, chicken, potato's, oatmeal etc...I ate probably 8 times a day.

How many years is this weight comparison over?  he is a grown man with a great strength training program. 

Ya know how many people I see everymonth that use more stuff than most gym goers and are not even 215 pounds???  Too many...


Yeah he trains his ass off in the offseason. Sheffield trained with him before his first season with the Braves and said it was the most intense offseason program he was ever on and went on to have a terrific season.
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Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 24, 2007, 03:07:56 AM
JUICE WASN'T A HUGE FACTOR ACCORDING TO OUR EXPERTS HERE.. ::)
Cmon pumpster, you can take hundreds of Pro players in their early 20's and then show them in their 40's and get the same result in pictures.
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Post by: Old_Rooster on April 24, 2007, 06:23:29 AM

Well how do you feel about Ruth never having to hit against black pitchers???

UM, so what?  Ruth doesn't hold the record and actually only 8% of the players in MLB are black.

Whats up, you scared of black folks?
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Post by: pumpster on April 24, 2007, 07:05:17 AM
Pumpster, not that I don't think he used/uses stuff (everyone does) but the physique comparison really shouldn't mean much.

At 16 I went from 169 (contest weight) to 222 8 months later at 17 years old with hard training and enormous amounts of food...Box of pasta, dozen eggs, chicken, potato's, oatmeal etc...I ate probably 8 times a day.

How many years is this weight comparison over?  he is a grown man with a great strength training program. 

Ya know how many people I see everymonth that use more stuff than most gym goers and are not even 215 pounds???  Too many...

Big big difference from making huge gains in the teens than from doing same between mid-late 20s and early-mid 30s.
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Post by: pumpster on April 24, 2007, 07:09:43 AM
Cmon pumpster, you can take hundreds of Pro players in their early 20's and then show them in their 40's and get the same result in pictures.

Not at all: those pics are both taken while still playing, between 20-something and 30-something. Not the same thing. Big gains in the teens is extremely common, the other is unusual.

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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 24, 2007, 10:55:32 AM
UM, so what?  Ruth doesn't hold the record and actually only 8% of the players in MLB are black.

Whats up, you scared of black folks?


Point is though Ruth only had to hit against white pictures and not latinos or blacks. Bonds may have used drugs but so have hundreds of other players maybe even thousands but how many can even compare to him......... 0 because he is one of the top 5 players ever. I think those who don't like Bonds use the drugs as an excuse to not recognize how great of a player he really is.
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Post by: blinky on April 24, 2007, 11:15:26 AM
alright this "did he or didnt he" debate is getting stupid.

its obvious that bonds took something. BUT that didnt make him into a good ball player...it just made him hit a hell of a lot more HR's than he would have
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 24, 2007, 11:31:16 AM
alright this "did he or didnt he" debate is getting stupid.

its obvious that bonds took something. BUT that didnt make him into a good ball player...it just made him hit a hell of a lot more HR's than he would have


Yeah he was setting records for walks back in the early 90's before he got real big, he is just a dangerous hitter but the extra size got him those couple extra every year but either way I think he could have hit at least 700 HR.
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Post by: Old_Rooster on April 24, 2007, 12:02:32 PM

Yeah he was setting records for walks back in the early 90's before he got real big, he is just a dangerous hitter but the extra size got him those couple extra every year but either way I think he could have hit at least 700 HR.

Bonds would have hit maybe 500 without the juice.  I hope a sniper blows his head off when he gets to 754
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 24, 2007, 12:26:17 PM
Bonds would have hit maybe 500 without the juice.  I hope a sniper blows his head off when he gets to 754


Only 500 :o ??? You really are a complete moron aren't you??? If he played only 15 years and averaged 35 a year he would have still hit more then 500. He has now played a total of over 20 years and if he only played 20 he would only need to 25 a year to reach 500 which would have been a easy task for a hitter of his caliber.
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Post by: pumpster on April 24, 2007, 01:11:21 PM
Trust "mikemachine's" in-depth 16-year old perspectives. ::)

Around 500 HRs is about right.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 24, 2007, 01:51:59 PM
Trust "mikemachine's" in-depth 16-year old perspectives. ::)

Around 500 HRs is about right.


Oh no watch out, it's the almighty Dumpster who has no proof he's even seen the inside of the gym but we know he is OLD. I forgot when your around opinons don't matter cause whatever you say is fact and the final word. ::)
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Post by: pumpster on April 24, 2007, 04:06:57 PM
Gee, without reading i wonder what resident 16-year old sage "mikemachine" will have to say???  ::)
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Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 24, 2007, 06:54:37 PM
Big big difference from making huge gains in the teens than from doing same between mid-late 20s and early-mid 30s.
He was 22 when he started with the Pirates. That Pirates pick is from his 1st year. A 20 year difference with a heavier frame is NOT unusual even for Pro. Look at Dan Marino when he was drafted and when he retired. Probably a 30lb difference. Same with Elway. And these guys ran a lot more than Bonds did. Well, maybe Marino didn't..............
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Post by: YoungBlood on April 24, 2007, 07:15:30 PM
Bonds would have hit maybe 500 without the juice. 

And he would still be the only person with 500 homeruns and 500 stolen bases! ;)

I hate Bonds. He's on my home team, and I hate his attitude. Yes, it's his right to not speak to reporters, though he has been better over the last few years but not by much.

You could give him the entire CIBA plant, and no matter how well he responded to the gear, it still wouldn't help his ability to see a pitch like he does. That's a natural talent that you can train to some extent, but Bonds has a better eye than most players hence the low strikeout ratio- though the pitchers not pitching to him also helps him out in that regard.
It's true that Bonds doing sauce will turn a "normal pop fly" into a homerun (take a deep breath before you pop a cork fellas, it's a bit exaggerated, intentionally). But it's still his eye that helps him connect with the ball in the first place.

He's an asshole, yes. But one helluva playing asshole that can hit the ball.
Hank Aaron never hit over 47 home runs in his career. But it was his day in day out play and average that he was able to break Babe's record.
My final two cents on the matter- Hank is just as much of an asshole for not showing up. Not only is he an ass for not showing up, but he's a hypocrite too. He used to drink this shit called "Red Juice," which contained Benzadrine (sp?) aka as "Bennies." Women used to use the pill form to diet on....it's no longer produced, I don't think. However, a huge amount of players used to drink the stuff, and Hammerin' Hank was no different.
Bonds did/does gear. Hank did, at one time, was legal speed.

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Post by: big L dawg on April 25, 2007, 04:36:08 AM
fvck bonds.
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Post by: Earl1972 on April 25, 2007, 07:49:01 AM
He was 22 when he started with the Pirates. That Pirates pick is from his 1st year. A 20 year difference with a heavier frame is NOT unusual even for Pro. Look at Dan Marino when he was drafted and when he retired. Probably a 30lb difference. Same with Elway. And these guys ran a lot more than Bonds did. Well, maybe Marino didn't..............

are you saying bonds is natural ???

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Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 25, 2007, 11:28:06 AM
are you saying bonds is natural ???

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No, Earl, but people assume that just cause he "gained weight" and is bigger than he was in his 20's, is due to steroids. Natural weight gain in all men past 35 is not unusual because the metabolism slows.
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Post by: pumpster on April 25, 2007, 11:55:55 AM
No, Earl, but people assume that just cause he "gained weight" and is bigger than he was in his 20's, is due to steroids. Natural weight gain in all men past 35 is not unusual because the metabolism slows.

Well ya, but it depends on the kind of weight. In his case a good part of it was muscle gains in his 30s, rather strange.

Then there's performance. Almost always a drop off some time in the mid-late 30s, which he didn't experience.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Camel Jockey on April 25, 2007, 12:27:15 PM
Cmon pumpster, you can take hundreds of Pro players in their early 20's and then show them in their 40's and get the same result in pictures.

So people's shoe sizes go up after they hit 30?  ::)

They guy juiced and that's the end of the discussion.
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Post by: Grape Ape on April 25, 2007, 01:04:44 PM
I don't care if he juiced or not.  Nobody knows who did or didn't and for him to be singled out because he's the best player is wrong.

Bonds gets all the focus, while sucktards like Randy Velarde, Benito Santiago and Trot Nixon all skate.

The other thing that annoys me are those who act like somebody can't put on size without usuing PEDs.  I'm sure if you take a genetically superior person, and couple them with a personal trainer, a personal chef, a masseuse, unlimited supplements, and the time to sleep through the night, they will gain serious muscle.  I'm not suggested Bonds wasn't on the sauce, but people tend to criticize those who do things that they're unable to do.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: big L dawg on April 25, 2007, 01:20:11 PM
yea and once you hit your late thirty's your head size will usually double ha ha.this has nothing to do with GH I'm sure.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 25, 2007, 01:23:54 PM
I don't care if he juiced or not.  Nobody knows who did or didn't and for him to be singled out because he's the best player is wrong.

Bonds gets all the focus, while sucktards like Randy Velarde, Benito Santiago and Trot Nixon all skate.

The other thing that annoys me are those who act like somebody can't put on size without usuing PEDs.  I'm sure if you take a genetically superior person, and couple them with a personal trainer, a personal chef, a masseuse, unlimited supplements, and the time to sleep through the night, they will gain serious muscle.  I'm not suggested Bonds wasn't on the sauce, but people tend to criticize those who do things that they're unable to do.


Yeah I agree but most people just want a reason to not recognize him as one of the greatest ever. They won't say it but many seem to have a grudge on him and will do anything to put him down. People think he doesn't give a shit but it really hurts him allot to go through all the shit he's going through while others seem to just fly under the radar. I guess it's the price you pay for being arguably the Best Player to Ever Play. :-\


Oh and Bonds was known for training his ass off in the off season especially during/after the latter 90's.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Grape Ape on April 25, 2007, 01:26:49 PM

Yeah I agree but most people just want a reason to not recognize him as one of the greatest ever. They won't say it but many seem to have a grudge on him and will do anything to put him down. People think he doesn't give a shit but it really hurts him allot to go through all the shit he's going through while others seem to just fly under the radar. I guess it's the price you pay for being arguably the Best Player to Ever Play. :-\


Oh and Bonds was known for training his ass off in the off season especially during/after the latter 90's.

I agree.  Bonds doesn't do himself any favors though.  If he had a good relationship with the media, he might not be targeted as much.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 25, 2007, 01:30:26 PM
I agree.  Bonds doesn't do himself any favors though.  If he had a good relationship with the media, he might not be targeted as much.


Not just the media though, he gets harassed all the time, gets sent hate mail and death threats. The guy has to worry about someone taking him out just because he's a very sucessful baseball player, you don't see guys like McGwire, Palmeiro, Canseco etc... having to worry about those things. I want him to break the record even badder cause it will be like a big FUCK YOU to all those who don't think he deserves it.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Earl1972 on April 25, 2007, 04:20:21 PM
No, Earl, but people assume that just cause he "gained weight" and is bigger than he was in his 20's, is due to steroids. Natural weight gain in all men past 35 is not unusual because the metabolism slows.

the change in head size is the dead giveaway that he's been using some gh

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Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: the Pure Majestic on April 25, 2007, 05:43:28 PM
the change in head size is the dead giveaway that he's been using some gh

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You've extensively studied the effects of somatatropin, I assume?
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 25, 2007, 05:54:04 PM
Well ya, but it depends on the kind of weight. In his case a good part of it was muscle gains in his 30s, rather strange.

Then there's performance. Almost always a drop off some time in the mid-late 30s, which he didn't experience.
Not saying he didn't take steroids, but his numbers were pretty consistent until AFTER the MLB strike. As soon as the homerun race started, I can bet that alot of players who never juiced before were doing then and now.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 25, 2007, 05:59:50 PM

Not just the media though, he gets harassed all the time, gets sent hate mail and death threats. The guy has to worry about someone taking him out just because he's a very sucessful baseball player, you don't see guys like McGwire, Palmeiro, Canseco etc... having to worry about those things. I want him to break the record even badder cause it will be like a big FUCK YOU to all those who don't think he deserves it.
Being a Giants fan, and a Bonds fan, I completely agree. Maybe Bonds isn't the greatest when it comes to interviews and speaking to the media, but the media was more interested in his family disputes than his Baseball carreer. If you've seen the movie "The FAN" with Deniro and Snipes, it was an actual "fiction" story based on Bonds.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Earl1972 on April 25, 2007, 08:37:20 PM
You've extensively studied the effects of somatatropin, I assume?

not extensively

are you saying it can't make your head grow larger?

just look at his head 15 years ago and look now

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Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: americanbulldog on April 26, 2007, 02:18:48 AM
He was 22 when he started with the Pirates. That Pirates pick is from his 1st year. A 20 year difference with a heavier frame is NOT unusual even for Pro. Look at Dan Marino when he was drafted and when he retired. Probably a 30lb difference. Same with Elway. And these guys ran a lot more than Bonds did. Well, maybe Marino didn't..............

I remember seeing him play for the Hawaii Islanders for a couple of months, he was a tall, lanky slapstick hitter with speed, an arm, range and no power.  There is enough circumstantial evidence to prove he took performance enhancing drugs, but so did everyone else.  It shouldn't diminish his status or what he has done.  Opening day, he STOLE A BASE.  The guy is a stud.  I don't care if he took drugs.  It is MLBs problem because they let the McGuire/Sosa show go on to bring baseball back to prominance.  Why punish Bonds? 
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: americanbulldog on April 26, 2007, 02:34:53 AM
You're a moron.  
He has only hit over 50 home runs in a year ONCE.  
That isn't some major output increase.  
He went from a low 30's a year guy, with some years in the 20's, to a low 40's a year guy, with years in the 30's.  

Everyone thinks he went from 10 homers a year, to 70 home runs every single year.  He had 1 year of huge numbers, and many, many other years of consistency.

Here is Hank Aaron's career stats.  Note his top HR producing year yielded 47 blasts, but lots of consistency. 

Batting  Glossary / Gamelogs:  Year--------19541955195619571958195919601961196219631964196519661967196819691970197119721973197419751976 / Splits:  Year--------Career--------19541955195619571958195919601961196219631964196519661967196819691970197119721973197419751976 / HR Log / PI Finders:Game / Streak / Event / PI vs. Pitcher / Neutralize Stats
    750 Runs /1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies   

 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1954 20 MLN NL 122  468   58  131  27  6  13   69   2  2  28  39  .280  .322  .447  104  209   6   4       3  13 RoY-4
 1955 21 MLN NL 153  602  105  189  37  9  27  106   3  1  49  61  .314  .366  .540  143  325   7   4   5   3  20 MVP-9,AS
 1956 22 MLN NL 153  609  106  200  34 14  26   92   2  4  37  54  .328  .365  .558  151  340   5   7   6   2  21 MVP-3,AS
 1957 23 MLN NL 151  615  118  198  27  6  44  132   1  1  57  58  .322  .378  .600  166  369   0   3  15   0  13 MVP-1,AS
 1958 24 MLN NL 153  601  109  196  34  4  30   95   4  1  59  49  .326  .386  .546  153  328   0   3  16   1  21 MVP-3,AS
 1959 25 MLN NL 154  629  116  223  46  7  39  123   8  0  51  54  .355  .401  .636  181  400   0   9  17   4  19 MVP-3,AS
 1960 26 MLN NL 153  590  102  172  20 11  40  126  16  7  60  63  .292  .352  .566  155  334   0  12  13   2   8 MVP-11,AS
 1961 27 MLN NL 155  603  115  197  39 10  34  120  21  9  56  64  .327  .381  .594  161  358   1   9  20   2  16 MVP-8,AS
 1962 28 MLN NL 156  592  127  191  28  6  45  128  15  7  66  73  .323  .390  .618  170  366   0   6  14   3  14 MVP-6,AS
 1963 29 MLN NL 161  631  121  201  29  4  44  130  31  5  78  94  .319  .391  .586  179  370   0   5  18   0  11 MVP-3,AS
 1964 30 MLN NL 145  570  103  187  30  2  24   95  22  4  62  46  .328  .393  .514  153  293   0   2   9   0  22 MVP-14,AS
 1965 31 MLN NL 150  570  109  181  40  1  32   89  24  4  60  81  .318  .379  .560  160  319   0   8  10   1  15 MVP-7,AS
 1966 32 ATL NL 158  603  117  168  23  1  44  127  21  3  76  96  .279  .356  .539  143  325   0   8  15   1  14 MVP-8,AS
 1967 33 ATL NL 155  600  113  184  37  3  39  109  17  6  63  97  .307  .369  .573  168  344   0   6  19   0  11 MVP-5,AS
 1968 34 ATL NL 160  606   84  174  33  4  29   86  28  5  64  62  .287  .354  .498  154  302   0   5  23   1  21 MVP-12,AS
 1969 35 ATL NL 147  547  100  164  30  3  44   97   9 10  87  47  .300  .396  .607  178  332   0   3  19   2  14 MVP-3,AS
 1970 36 ATL NL 150  516  103  154  26  1  38  118   9  0  74  63  .298  .385  .574  148  296   0   6  15   2  13 MVP-17,AS
 1971 37 ATL NL 139  495   95  162  22  3  47  118   1  1  71  58  .327  .410  .669  194  331   0   5  21   2   9 MVP-3,AS
 1972 38 ATL NL 129  449   75  119  10  0  34   77   4  0  92  55  .265  .390  .514  147  231   0   2  15   1  17 MVP-16,AS
 1973 39 ATL NL 120  392   84  118  12  1  40   96   1  1  68  51  .301  .402  .643  177  252   0   4  13   1   7 MVP-12,AS
 1974 40 ATL NL 112  340   47   91  16  0  20   69   1  0  39  29  .268  .341  .491  128  167   1   2   6   0   6 AS
 1975 41 MIL AL 137  465   45  109  16  2  12   60   0  1  70  51  .234  .332  .355   94  165   1   6   3   1  15 AS
 1976 42 MIL AL  85  271   22   62   8  0  10   35   0  1  35  38  .229  .315  .369  102  100   0   2   1   0   8
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 23 Seasons        12364      3771     98     2297     73    1383  .305  .374  .555  155       21 121 293  32 328
               3298      2174      624    755      240   1402                            6856
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        607  107  185  31  5  37  113  12  4  69  68  .305  .374  .555  155  337   1   6  14   2  16
 Career High    161  631  127  223  46 14  47  132  31 10  92  97  .355  .410  .669  194  400   7  12  23   4  22
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+


Here is Barry's stats.

Batting  Glossary / Gamelogs:  Year--------1986198719881989199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007 / Splits:  Year--------Career--------1986198719881989199019911992199319941995199619971998199920002001200220032004200520062007 / HR Log / PI Finders:Game / Streak / Event / PI vs. Pitcher / Neutralize Stats
    750 Runs /1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies   

 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1986 21 PIT NL 113  413   72   92  26  3  16   48  36  7  65 102  .223  .330  .416  103  172   2   2   2   2   4 RoY-6
 1987 22 PIT NL 150  551   99  144  34  9  25   59  32 10  54  88  .261  .329  .492  114  271   0   3   3   3   4
 1988 23 PIT NL 144  538   97  152  30  5  24   58  17 11  72  82  .283  .368  .491  147  264   0   2  14   2   3
 1989 24 PIT NL 159  580   96  144  34  6  19   58  32 10  93  93  .248  .351  .426  125  247   1   4  22   1   9
 1990 25 PIT NL 151  519  104  156  32  3  33  114  52 13  93  83  .301  .406  .565  170  293   0   6  15   3   8 SS,MVP-1,AS
 1991 26 PIT NL 153  510   95  149  28  5  25  116  43 13 107  73  .292  .410  .514  161  262   0  13  25   4   8 SS,MVP-2
 1992 27 PIT NL 140  473  109  147  36  5  34  103  39  8 127  69  .311  .456  .624  205  295   0   7  32   5   9 SS,MVP-1,AS
 1993 28 SFG NL 159  539  129  181  38  4  46  123  29 12 126  79  .336  .458  .677  206  365   0   7  43   2  11 SS,MVP-1,AS
 1994 29 SFG NL 112  391   89  122  18  1  37   81  29  9  74  43  .312  .426  .647  182  253   0   3  18   6   3 SS,MVP-4,AS
 1995 30 SFG NL 144  506  109  149  30  7  33  104  31 10 120  83  .294  .431  .577  168  292   0   4  22   5  12 MVP-12,AS
 1996 31 SFG NL 158  517  122  159  27  3  42  129  40  7 151  76  .308  .461  .615  186  318   0   6  30   1  11 SS,MVP-5,AS
 1997 32 SFG NL 159  532  123  155  26  5  40  101  37  8 145  87  .291  .446  .585  170  311   0   5  34   8  13 SS,MVP-5,AS
 1998 33 SFG NL 156  552  120  167  44  7  37  122  28 12 130  92  .303  .438  .609  177  336   1   6  29   8  15 MVP-8,AS
 1999 34 SFG NL 102  355   91   93  20  2  34   83  15  2  73  62  .262  .389  .617  162  219   0   3   9   3   6 MVP-24
 2000 35 SFG NL 143  480  129  147  28  4  49  106  11  3 117  77  .306  .440  .688  191  330   0   7  22   3   6 SS,MVP-2,AS
 2001 36 SFG NL 153  476  129  156  32  2  73  137  13  3 177  93  .328  .515  .863  262  411   0   2  35   9   5 SS,MVP-1,AS
 2002 37 SFG NL 143  403  117  149  31  2  46  110   9  2 198  47  .370  .582  .799  275  322   0   2  68   9   4 SS,MVP-1,AS
 2003 38 SFG NL 130  390  111  133  22  1  45   90   7  0 148  58  .341  .529  .749  231  292   0   2  61  10   7 SS,MVP-1,AS
 2004 39 SFG NL 147  373  129  135  27  3  45  101   6  1 232  41  .362  .609  .812  260  303   0   3 120   9   5 SS,MVP-1,AS
 2005 40 SFG NL  14   42    8   12   1  0   5   10   0  0   9   6  .286  .404  .667  177   28   0   1   3   0   0
 2006 41 SFG NL 130  367   74   99  23  0  26   77   3  0 115  51  .270  .454  .545  156  200   0   1  38  10   9
 2007 42 SFG NL  16   48   12   16   3  0   6   12   1  0  13   7  .333  .468  .771  225   37   0   1   2   0   1
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 22 Seasons         9555      2857     77     1942    141    1492  .299  .443  .609  183        4  90 647 103 153
               2876      2164      590    740      510   2439                            5821
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        538  122  161  33  4  42  109  29  8 137  84  .299  .443  .609  183  328   0   5  36   6   9
 Career High    159  580  129  181  44  9  73  137  52 13 232 102  .370  .609  .863  275  411   2  13 120  10  15

Look at his OBP!  Look at his slugging percentage.  How about leading the NL in batting average in 2002 (.370), 2004 (.362).  He has led the NL in slugging every year since 2001!  He is the all time leader in BB, and the all time leader in intentional walks.  Between 2000-2004 he averaged a home run 1-8.3 at bats!  He is the greatest baseball player, PERIOD. 
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 26, 2007, 02:52:17 AM
HAHAHAHAHA Bonds has 1000 more walks then Aaron, how can one argue with that, can't believe douche bags on here claim he would have barely hit 500 without any drugs. ::)
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 26, 2007, 02:14:18 PM
15 more to go!
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: legbreaker on April 26, 2007, 04:29:43 PM
[quote author=americanbulldog
Here is Barry's stats.
Look at his OBP!  Look at his slugging percentage.  How about leading the NL in batting average in 2002 (.370), 2004 (.362).  He has led the NL in slugging every year since 2001!  He is the all time leader in BB, and the all time leader in intentional walks.  Between 2000-2004 he averaged a home run 1-8.3 at bats!  He is the greatest baseball player, PERIOD. 

[/quote]

That really should be period to thios discussion.  The guy is the best ever.  he is playing a much more competitive game than years back.

Also, I think the intentional walk thing should be banned or at least only aloud to be used 1 time per game and never more.  Ruins the game.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: pumpster on April 26, 2007, 04:47:01 PM
The "key" according to these guys is to look at Barr's 00-04 stats - excactly when his juicing was maximized!! ::)
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: americanbulldog on April 26, 2007, 05:08:43 PM
The "key" according to these guys is to look at Barr's 00-04 stats - excactly when his juicing was maximized!! ::)

How about the juiced ball.  MLB needed to get back into the spotlight after the strike.  They allowed this to happen, Barry didn't start taking serious stuff until after Sosa and Mac started playing homerun derby.  Does MLB suggest putting an asterisk over the entire period?  BTW, check out pics of ARod when he was senior in High school, is he using GH as well. 
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Oldschool Flip on April 26, 2007, 07:20:10 PM
How about the juiced ball.  MLB needed to get back into the spotlight after the strike.  They allowed this to happen, Barry didn't start taking serious stuff until after Sosa and Mac started playing homerun derby.  Does MLB suggest putting an asterisk over the entire period?  BTW, check out pics of ARod when he was senior in High school, is he using GH as well. 
THe owners of the MLB needed something to draw the fans back after the strike. What better way then to have one of the most coveted records be broken. They could have cared less if the players juiced. And if steroids are the answer to breaking the records, there should be may young players RIGHT NOW who have a GREAT shot at breaking Bonds HR record.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: americanbulldog on April 27, 2007, 12:27:53 PM
THe owners of the MLB needed something to draw the fans back after the strike. What better way then to have one of the most coveted records be broken. They could have cared less if the players juiced. And if steroids are the answer to breaking the records, there should be may young players RIGHT NOW who have a GREAT shot at breaking Bonds HR record.

The key thing is longevity.  ARod could easily surpass Bond's record if he can stay injury free. 
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Hedgehog on April 27, 2007, 12:34:55 PM
for me (and im sure alot of people) i dont hate bonds because he "probably" did steroids. i hate him because he is an arogant, rude asshole.


im sure if it was mark mcgwire who was about to break the record people would feel alot differently about it. and im sure hank aaron would be at that game.

Funny. I'm the other way.

I like Bonds because he's an asshole, disregards what everyone thinks of him. I dislike him because he probably cheated and used steroids.


-Hedge
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: americanbulldog on April 28, 2007, 02:10:33 AM
Funny. I'm the other way.

I like Bonds because he's an asshole, disregards what everyone thinks of him. I dislike him because he probably cheated and used steroids.


-Hedge

But everyone in the 90's was.  What about Reuben Sierra?  Juan Gonzalez?  Lenny Dykstra?  Frank Thomas?  Albert Belle?  Dave Henderson?    I can go on and on about all the juicers, Bond's has just had the longevity.  How many guys in their late 30s start hitting 370?  The dude is SERIOUS talent, and should be considered the greatest of all time. 
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: big L dawg on April 28, 2007, 02:23:08 AM
 :-\um no
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: americanbulldog on April 29, 2007, 02:19:34 AM
^^^He is hitting 362, has 8 home runs in 58 ABs.  With a 828 slugging percentage and a 519 OBP, he is on pace to have another earth shattering year.  And BTW for all the haters, he is 42. 
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: pumpster on April 29, 2007, 05:33:05 AM
^^^He is hitting 362, has 8 home runs in 58 ABs.  With a 828 slugging percentage and a 519 OBP, he is on pace to have another earth shattering year.  And BTW for all the haters, he is 42. 
For all the haters of fairness: don't worry this twit will easily surmount the record, cheating all the way. Don't really care that others did it, he quite obviously did it AND is an obnoxious, sad invidual. All that money, acolades, aclaim and the best he can do is bitterness & resentment.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 29, 2007, 08:16:48 AM
^^^He is hitting 362, has 8 home runs in 58 ABs.  With a 828 slugging percentage and a 519 OBP, he is on pace to have another earth shattering year.  And BTW for all the haters, he is 42. 


I hope he ends up winning another MVP while breaking the record this year which will be a big Fuck You to the haters. I was talking the other day about it and I think it could happen, what a better way to say screw you to all the doubters.

For all the haters of fairness: don't worry this twit will easily surmount the record, cheating all the way. Don't really care that others did it, he quite obviously did it AND is an obnoxious, sad invidual. All that money, acolades, aclaim and the best he can do is bitterness & resentment.


Please elaborate master of all knowledge and sole provider of opinions. Your a complete moron go back to arguing something you know about ( ::) which is nothing regarding anything discussed on this site). Oh wait sorry I have no room to talk I am only 16 and have only been lifting for 6 months ::) When you have any kind of actual point other then just a bullshit opinion which you will state as fact please share even though I doubt that could happen.
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Post by: Hedgehog on April 29, 2007, 10:23:38 AM
Sorry if this has already been answered in the thread:

I thought the MBL had implied some kind of steroid policy, and that frequently testing Bonds would be highest on their agenda (keeping him off-steroids would be good PR, probably).

Can't imagine a bigger disaster, perhaps another lockout/strike, to the MBL than if Bonds would get caught in a random doping test.

So:

If he's producing great numbers right now, is he still juicing, and how can he possibly be?

-Hedge
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Post by: legbreaker on April 29, 2007, 11:27:56 AM
Passing a daily drug screen is very easy to do...just use gh, insulin...

The drug testing is easy to beat, but a daily or weekly testing is much more difficult for steroids only and this is one of the reason that the TRUE steroid era in sports was the mid 80's and NOT 2000.

I have been saying for years that a baseball pitcher with mets asked me tons of questions in 1987 at my friends club every week....it just came out yesterday that the guy selling the stuff in the locker room and working for the mets from 85-95 was either arrested or something like that.

The truth is every single athlete coming into the gym I trained at in mid late 80's used stuff...EVRY SINGLE ONE (baseball, football, boxing, basket ball (college), bodybuilding, track and field olympic trials and womens vollyball).

lay off Barry...he is awesome and the best of the best.
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Post by: legbreaker on April 29, 2007, 11:31:44 AM
Great point, American Bulldog!!!

It is becoming more and more common to see 42 year old guys breaking records, winning titles etc.

Barry, Roger Clemens etc train all year round and don't lay off like the guys that will never be great..
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Post by: big L dawg on April 29, 2007, 02:46:10 PM
yea man Berry's awsome dude epic rolemodel for the kids I plan on teaching my son to be just like him in tee ball
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Post by: pumpster on April 29, 2007, 03:35:35 PM
yea man Berry's awsome dude epic rolemodel for the kids I plan on teaching my son to be just like him in tee ball
Great  ::) One day maybe he too can be a zillionare with the world's worst attitude, filled with resentment and bitterness. Well worth it.
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Post by: bmacsys on April 29, 2007, 03:47:56 PM


I have been saying for years that a baseball pitcher with mets asked me tons of questions in 1987 at my friends club every week....

Come on, name names. Ron Darling? Gooden? Cone? Ojeda? Randy Meyers?
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: body88 on April 29, 2007, 11:01:12 PM
Pretty obvious Selig is on the sauce.
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Post by: tu_holmes on April 30, 2007, 12:56:18 AM
Great  ::) One day maybe he too can be a zillionare with the world's worst attitude, filled with resentment and bitterness. Well worth it.

Bonds doesn't want to be a role model... he's said so on many occasions.

How can anyone talk about Barry Bonds when it comes to being a role model?
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Post by: americanbulldog on April 30, 2007, 01:21:19 AM
Bonds doesn't want to be a role model... he's said so on many occasions.

How can anyone talk about Barry Bonds when it comes to being a role model?

It's too bad that Bond's talent, and skills get indighted because of his chit attitude.  I don't like his disposition, but he isn't hired to be nice. 
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Post by: tu_holmes on April 30, 2007, 01:23:13 AM
It's too bad that Bond's talent, and skills get indighted because of his chit attitude.  I don't like his disposition, but he isn't hired to be nice. 

Exactly. The guy is paid to hit the baseball out of the park... And he's done a FANTASTIC job at that.

Hate all you want, that's a future hall of famer there... What will you be remembered for?
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Post by: bmacsys on April 30, 2007, 04:47:34 AM
Exactly. The guy is paid to hit the baseball out of the park... And he's done a FANTASTIC job at that.

Hate all you want, that's a future hall of famer there... What will you be remembered for?

Big Mac was a sure first ballot hall of famer too. Same thing is going to happen to Bonds even with a 73 homerun season and 755+ career taters. The writers won't vote him in first ballot. They are going to make him pay for both cheating and then lying about it.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: bmacsys on April 30, 2007, 04:52:32 AM
HAHAHAHAHA Bonds has 1000 more walks then Aaron, how can one argue with that, can't believe douche bags on here claim he would have barely hit 500 without any drugs. ::)

After 1998 Bonds was a totally different player. He saw the attention Sosa and Big Mac were getting and got jealous. The Cardinals were playing the Giants at Candlestick and Big Mac was treated like a god. Thats when he vowed to friends and teammates he wouldn't let those two guys grab all the spotlight and in the 1998 offseason he started his AAS use. He never had the real big power numbers before that. He would hit 35 to 40 homers a year. Then it magically shot up to 73 at 37 years old?
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 30, 2007, 05:01:20 AM
After 1998 Bonds was a totally different player. He saw the attention Sosa and Big Mac were getting and got jealous. The Cardinals were playing the Giants at Candlestick and Big Mac was treated like a god. Thats when he vowed to friends and teammates he wouldn't let those two guys grab all the spotlight and in the 1998 offseason he started his AAS use. He never had the real big power numbers before that. He would hit 35 to 40 homers a year. Then it magically shot up to 73 at 37 years old?

He only hit over 50 once and he was setting records for walks in the early to mid 90's. He was always a dangerous hitter.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 30, 2007, 05:03:38 AM
Big Mac was a sure first ballot hall of famer too. Same thing is going to happen to Bonds even with a 73 homerun season and 755+ career taters. The writers won't vote him in first ballot. They are going to make him pay for both cheating and then lying about it.


Yeah ok your a moron. How is argueably the best player ever gonna not make it the first time. He's won 7 MVPs and no one else has more then 3, there is no way he won't be in the HOF on his first try.
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Post by: Grape Ape on April 30, 2007, 10:34:06 AM

Yeah ok your a moron. How is argueably the best player ever gonna not make it the first time. He's won 7 MVPs and no one else has more then 3, there is no way he won't be in the HOF on his first try.

Don't underestimate the stupidity of the american sportswriter.  After all, they're the ones who gave Colon the Cy over Santana last year, and IRod the MVP over Jeter in 99.
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Post by: tu_holmes on April 30, 2007, 11:02:49 AM
Don't underestimate the stupidity of the american sportswriter.  After all, they're the ones who gave Colon the Cy over Santana last year, and IRod the MVP over Jeter in 99.

Oh, don't get me wrong, the American sports writers are total haters.

They talk about cheating, when EVERYONE in baseball knew the guys were juicing. Big fucking deal, it was good for baseball, and you know what? It's STILL good for baseball.

Baseball was done, the long ball, and now the steroid "scandal" (I thought for it to be a scandal it had to be a big secret?) has brought baseball back.

No publicity is bad publicity.
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Post by: Grape Ape on April 30, 2007, 11:14:06 AM


They talk about cheating, when EVERYONE in baseball knew the guys were juicing. Big fucking deal, it was good for baseball, and you know what? It's STILL good for baseball.


This is exactly the correct point.

How can baseball prosecute those who they shamelessly promototed throught the whole thing.  They fucked this whole thing up.  They just need to move on from here, and deal with the ramifications of their actions during the late 90s.

I can't get into it now, but it's a shame that Bonds' accomplishments will be clouded by this.  His 73 hr season is amazing on so many levels.

Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: MikeThaMachine on April 30, 2007, 12:33:53 PM
Don't underestimate the stupidity of the american sportswriter.  After all, they're the ones who gave Colon the Cy over Santana last year, and IRod the MVP over Jeter in 99.


This isn't a reward for a seasons work but for a lifetime and Barry will retire with many records and having done feats no other man in the history of baseball has done. There is no way they could deny him a first time ballot HOF without losing any and all credibility that they have. It would be like saying Arnold could have not been Governor because he was known to have smoked weed when he was younger, it doesn't matter when you have an entire career of greatness that can't be denied.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: bmacsys on April 30, 2007, 01:44:22 PM
Pretty obvious Selig is on the sauce.

Ahahahah! Selig is ripped.
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Post by: americanbulldog on April 30, 2007, 03:27:20 PM

This isn't a reward for a seasons work but for a lifetime and Barry will retire with many records and having done feats no other man in the history of baseball has done. There is no way they could deny him a first time ballot HOF without losing any and all credibility that they have. It would be like saying Arnold could have not been Governor because he was known to have smoked weed when he was younger, it doesn't matter when you have an entire career of greatness that can't be denied.

I sincerely hope so.  Bond's isn't guilty of anything most of the MLBPA members were already doing.  He just did it at a totally higher level than anyone else.  Like it was already said, he was getting on base at a horrific level pre steroids.  He made Andy Van Slyke and Bobby Bonilla, Mike Levallier (SP).  When he came to the Giants, Matt Williams got an extended lease on life, and Jeff Kent got an MVP.  He makes everyone around him better hitters.  HE BETTER be a first ballot HOF.  When you look at what he accomplished on the field, he is BAR NONE, the GREATEST player of ALL TIME. 
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Post by: big L dawg on April 30, 2007, 04:14:48 PM
the all time hitter is not in the HOF and the all time HR hitter wont be either
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Post by: YoungBlood on April 30, 2007, 07:17:00 PM
AND is an obnoxious,


If there is something Barry Bonds is NOT, it's obnoxious. :-\
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Post by: body88 on April 30, 2007, 09:02:38 PM
Ahahahah! Selig is ripped.

Selig blows coke to "get up" for games.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: pumpster on April 30, 2007, 11:08:20 PM

If there is something Barry Bonds is NOT, it's obnoxious. :-\


Sure buddy
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: YoungBlood on May 01, 2007, 05:00:56 PM
Hey Dipshit/pumpster, being in SF you would think you would see his obnoxiousness often, right? Well, if he ignores the media/press, and sits by himself with nobody talking to him in the clubhouse.....how is that obnoxious?

Maybe if he were like Terrell Owens running his mouth to the press, taking his life or asking (yet again!) for a trade to another team because he can't get a Super Bowl ring for every finger, THEN I would consider Bonds obnoxious. But that's not what he is.

Have a nice day Dipshit/pumpster. :)
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Post by: pumpster on May 01, 2007, 05:05:28 PM
Hey Dipshit/pumpster, being in SF you would think you would see his obnoxiousness often, right? Well, if he ignores the media/press, and sits by himself with nobody talking to him in the clubhouse.....how is that obnoxious?

Maybe if he were like Terrell Owens running his mouth to the press, taking his life or asking (yet again!) for a trade to another team because he can't get a Super Bowl ring for every finger, THEN I would consider Bonds obnoxious. But that's not what he is.

Have a nice day Dipshit/pumpster. :)

If it makes you better to think so, go to it dickhead. Lots of people find him obnxious; the fact that you don't see it says volumes about you.


Hope this helps
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Post by: tu_holmes on May 01, 2007, 05:09:20 PM
If it makes you better to think so, go to it dickhead. Lots of people find him obnxious; the fact that you don't see it says volumes about you.


Hope this helps

I don't find him obnoxious at all actually... The people who find him obnoxious are usually the people who are nosey neighbors and what to be in everyone else's business.

They find it obnoxious that he DOESN'T want to talk to people...



  ob·nox·ious    audio  (b-nkshs, b-)  KEY 

ADJECTIVE:

   1. Very annoying or objectionable; offensive or odious: "I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution" (Ulysses S. Grant).
   2. Archaic Exposed to harm, injury, or evil: "The town ... now lies obnoxious to its foes" (John Bunyan).
   3. Archaic Deserving of or liable to censure.


I don't really find him annoying at all... he censures himself by not talking, and he isn't exposing himself to injury.

Perhaps if you just said that you "don't like the guy", It would be a more accurate statement.
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Post by: pumpster on May 01, 2007, 05:11:06 PM
This forum's got about 5 regular posters. What any particular dude thinks is basically irrelevant.

There are plenty, probably even a majority, who can't stand him. The amount of verbiage or lackthereof is not the measure.
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Post by: tu_holmes on May 01, 2007, 05:15:47 PM
This forum's got about 5 regular posters. What any particular dude thinks is basically irrelevant.

There are plenty, probably even a majority, who can't stand him. The amount of verbiage or lackthereof is not the measure.

Like I said, disliking someone doesn't make them obnoxious...

It is your right to hate if you want to though... Enjoy.
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Post by: YoungBlood on May 01, 2007, 05:52:13 PM
Apparently, pumpster has his own definitions for words.
So, when does the Merriam-Pumpster dictionary come out? ::)
We need to know how to define ones character, should we ever get into a discourse with pumpster.
I.D:10T :-X
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Post by: pumpster on May 01, 2007, 07:28:53 PM
Like I said, disliking someone doesn't make them obnoxious...

It is your right to hate if you want to though... Enjoy.

Dude be smart and stop trying to win a pissing contest, UNLESS you can come up with extensive polling supporting your opinion as that of the majority LOL. Absurd; you REALLY seem to have nothing to discuss other than defending your hero over trivia.
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Post by: pumpster on May 01, 2007, 07:30:11 PM
Apparently, pumpster has his own definitions for words.
So, when does the Merriam-Pumpster dictionary come out? ::)
We need to know how to define ones character, should we ever get into a discourse with pumpster.
I.D:10T :-X


When you have to attack someone personally because you have nothing, it's defined as
D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E LOL
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Post by: Dos Equis on May 01, 2007, 07:45:03 PM
Bonds doesn't want to be a role model... he's said so on many occasions.

How can anyone talk about Barry Bonds when it comes to being a role model?

Tu he is role model like every other professional athlete, whether he wants to be or not.  Millions of kids idolize these guys.  And I think these athletes deliberately foster this athlete worship by, among other things, selling their jerseys (primarily to youngsters) and selling their autographs.   
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Post by: tu_holmes on May 01, 2007, 07:46:14 PM
Tu he is role model like every other professional athlete, whether he wants to be or not.  Millions of kids idolize these guys.  And I think these athletes deliberately foster this athlete worship by, among other things, selling their jerseys (primarily to youngsters) and selling their autographs.   

I disagree... I don't see any of these guys as "role models".

They do a job... Their job happens to be playing a game. If someone's kid would rather be like Bonds than their own parent... There's an issue, and it's not Barry.
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Post by: Dos Equis on May 01, 2007, 08:03:18 PM
I disagree... I don't see any of these guys as "role models".

They do a job... Their job happens to be playing a game. If someone's kid would rather be like Bonds than their own parent... There's an issue, and it's not Barry.

I disagree . . . too.   :)  These athletes shouldn't be role models, but the fact is millions of kids do look up to these athletes.  I'm even guilty of sending mixed messages.  I tell my kids these athletes are not role models, but they are right along with me virtually worshiping my favorite teams and athletes.  My admiration for these players ends when the clock strikes zero, but I think many kids aren't able to do this.  These are public figures.  They not only play the game, they sell themselves, put their merchandise all over the place, invite kids to put posters on the kids' bedroom walls, sell baseball cards, etc.  They use these kids to help make money.  They cannot do all of these things (and more) and then claim to have no responsibility to the millions of kids who idolize them. 
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Post by: pumpster on May 01, 2007, 08:16:51 PM
I disagree... I don't see any of these guys as "role models".

They do a job... Their job happens to be playing a game. If someone's kid would rather be like Bonds than their own parent... There's an issue, and it's not Barry.

Tu deserves the adage: "opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one." Tu, what you think is just your opinion AKA who cares or thinks it's relevant just because you personally decide to look the other way over this douchebag? ;D You're clearly extremely biased in your opinion, which isn't representative.
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Post by: tu_holmes on May 01, 2007, 08:26:19 PM
Tu deserves the adage: "opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one." Tu, what you think is just your opinion AKA who cares or thinks it's relevant just because you personally decide to look the other way over this douchebag? ;D You're clearly extremely biased in your opinion, which isn't representative.

The difference is that I "know" it's an opinion... You're acting like yours is law.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on May 02, 2007, 02:17:41 AM
Please elaborate master of all knowledge and sole provider of opinions. Your a complete moron go back to arguing something you know about ( ::) which is nothing regarding anything discussed on this site). Oh wait sorry I have no room to talk I am only 16 and have only been lifting for 6 months ::) When you have any kind of actual point other then just a bullshit opinion which you will state as fact please share even though I doubt that could happen.

I think I will use this post again, Pumpster is a fuckin douche times two. WTF is your problem, your opinions are fact and the majority without even showing any backing.
Then you write shit like this to counter a reasonable argument
If it makes you better to think so, go to it dickhead. Lots of people find him obnxious; the fact that you don't see it says volumes about you.


Hope this helps

What in the hell is that supposed to mean, you just make a open statement in an attempt to tell someone if they don't think the same as you they must be stupid or have bad morals. I have yet to see a post by you in which your not negative or open to someone else's views. Your just like a Roman Catholic or Mormon ;D
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Post by: big L dawg on May 02, 2007, 02:48:52 AM
bonds=Bitch
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Post by: Oldschool Flip on May 02, 2007, 04:31:45 AM
bonds=Bitch
Bonds= New homerun leader and MLB Hall of Fame
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Post by: Dos Equis on May 02, 2007, 09:04:51 AM
Bonds= New homerun leader and MLB Hall of Fame

*   :)
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Post by: pumpster on May 02, 2007, 10:12:09 AM
bonds=Bitch

Pithy
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Post by: bmacsys on May 02, 2007, 04:17:07 PM

Yeah ok your a moron. How is argueably the best player ever gonna not make it the first time. He's won 7 MVPs and no one else has more then 3, there is no way he won't be in the HOF on his first try.

Wanna put some money on it? Big Mac didn't and neither will Bonds. They are going to make him wait. Just like Hank Aaron not going to see him break his record and offering up "no comment" about Bonds.
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Post by: tu_holmes on May 02, 2007, 05:29:38 PM
*   :)

Does anyone know for certain that Hank Aaron never did juice?
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Post by: pumpster on May 02, 2007, 06:07:32 PM
Does anyone know for certain that Hank Aaron never did juice?

This is referred to as the desperation theory. ;)
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Post by: YoungBlood on May 02, 2007, 06:44:48 PM
Does anyone know for certain that Hank Aaron never did juice?

AGAIN, Hank played in the day when players used to drink a shitload of stuff called "Red Juice." It contained Benzadrine (aka Bennies) and is essentially amphetamines. The traveling conditions were much worse, and these guys drank that stuff to have more stamina.
So, while it may be unknown whether or not Hank used steroids, it's well known him and all the players/teammates of the day were speed freaks due to the aforementioned "Red Juice."
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Post by: YoungBlood on May 02, 2007, 06:50:46 PM
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/content/sports/epaper/2006/04/02/PBP_AMPHET_0402.html
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Post by: big L dawg on May 02, 2007, 08:35:20 PM
I'm hoping for a career ending injury when he gets within two HR's that would be funny as hell
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Post by: tu_holmes on May 02, 2007, 11:31:40 PM
This is referred to as the desperation theory. ;)

Haha... hardly... This is referred to as "Normal Inquiry".

See, only people who are afraid that there may be something there are afraid to ask.

We know Bonds juiced... and I for one don't really care. As I've said before, It was good for baseball.

I can only imagine how you'd choke out the words "Yes, Hank took steroids." If it was found out he did.

You're a funny guy pumpster...
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on May 03, 2007, 02:22:11 AM
Wanna put some money on it? Big Mac didn't and neither will Bonds. They are going to make him wait. Just like Hank Aaron not going to see him break his record and offering up "no comment" about Bonds.


Comparing him to McGwire is a joke, your a fucking idiot. The only thing they have in common is hitting 70+ HR in a season and getting walked a lot (which bonds did much more often), otherwise they are completely different players with Bonds being the much better of the two by a handfull of MVP's and records. Why don't you compare Albert Belle and Kenny Loften now.... ::) ::) ::)
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Post by: americanbulldog on May 03, 2007, 06:20:59 PM

Comparing him to McGwire is a joke, your a fucking idiot. The only thing they have in common is hitting 70+ HR in a season and getting walked a lot (which bonds did much more often), otherwise they are completely different players with Bonds being the much better of the two by a handfull of MVP's and records. Why don't you compare Albert Belle and Kenny Loften now.... ::) ::) ::)

 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1986 21 PIT NL 113  413   72   92  26  3  16   48  36  7  65 102  .223  .330  .416  103  172   2   2   2   2   4 RoY-6
 1987 22 PIT NL 150  551   99  144  34  9  25   59  32 10  54  88  .261  .329  .492  114  271   0   3   3   3   4
 1988 23 PIT NL 144  538   97  152  30  5  24   58  17 11  72  82  .283  .368  .491  147  264   0   2  14   2   3
 1989 24 PIT NL 159  580   96  144  34  6  19   58  32 10  93  93  .248  .351  .426  125  247   1   4  22   1   9
 1990 25 PIT NL 151  519  104  156  32  3  33  114  52 13  93  83  .301  .406  .565  170  293   0   6  15   3   8 SS,MVP-1,AS
 1991 26 PIT NL 153  510   95  149  28  5  25  116  43 13 107  73  .292  .410  .514  161  262   0  13  25   4   8 SS,MVP-2
 1992 27 PIT NL 140  473  109  147  36  5  34  103  39  8 127  69  .311  .456  .624  205  295   0   7  32   5   9 SS,MVP-1,AS
 1993 28 SFG NL 159  539  129  181  38  4  46  123  29 12 126  79  .336  .458  .677  206  365   0   7  43   2  11 SS,MVP-1,AS
 1994 29 SFG NL 112  391   89  122  18  1  37   81  29  9  74  43  .312  .426  .647  182  253   0   3  18   6   3 SS,MVP-4,AS
 1995 30 SFG NL 144  506  109  149  30  7  33  104  31 10 120  83  .294  .431  .577  168  292   0   4  22   5  12 MVP-12,AS
 1996 31 SFG NL 158  517  122  159  27  3  42  129  40  7 151  76  .308  .461  .615  186  318   0   6  30   1  11 SS,MVP-5,AS
 1997 32 SFG NL 159  532  123  155  26  5  40  101  37  8 145  87  .291  .446  .585  170  311   0   5  34   8  13 SS,MVP-5,AS
 1998 33 SFG NL 156  552  120  167  44  7  37  122  28 12 130  92  .303  .438  .609  177  336   1   6  29   8  15 MVP-8,AS
 1999 34 SFG NL 102  355   91   93  20  2  34   83  15  2  73  62  .262  .389  .617  162  219   0   3   9   3   6 MVP-24
 2000 35 SFG NL 143  480  129  147  28  4  49  106  11  3 117  77  .306  .440  .688  191  330   0   7  22   3   6 SS,MVP-2,AS
 2001 36 SFG NL 153  476  129  156  32  2  73  137  13  3 177  93  .328  .515  .863  262  411   0   2  35   9   5 SS,MVP-1,AS
 2002 37 SFG NL 143  403  117  149  31  2  46  110   9  2 198  47  .370  .582  .799  275  322   0   2  68   9   4 SS,MVP-1,AS
 2003 38 SFG NL 130  390  111  133  22  1  45   90   7  0 148  58  .341  .529  .749  231  292   0   2  61  10   7 SS,MVP-1,AS
 2004 39 SFG NL 147  373  129  135  27  3  45  101   6  1 232  41  .362  .609  .812  260  303   0   3 120   9   5 SS,MVP-1,AS
 2005 40 SFG NL  14   42    8   12   1  0   5   10   0  0   9   6  .286  .404  .667  177   28   0   1   3   0   0
 2006 41 SFG NL 130  367   74   99  23  0  26   77   3  0 115  51  .270  .454  .545  156  200   0   1  38  10   9
 2007 42 SFG NL  24   67   19   23   3  0   9   21   1  0  23  10  .343  .511  .791  242   53   0   1   9   1   2
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 22 Seasons         9574      2864     77     1951    141    1495  .299  .443  .610  183        4  90 654 104 154
               2884      2171      590    743      510   2449                            5837


Career 300 hitter who has hit .370 in his career, better OBP, more intentional walks, a five tool guy, gold glover, career .600+ slugging percentage, the only member of the 500-500 club, Big Mac is nowhere near comparable to Bonds. 

Big Mac's career:


 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1986 22 OAK AL  18   53   10   10   1  0   3    9   0  1   4  18  .189  .259  .377   76   20   0   0   0   1   0
 1987 23 OAK AL 151  557   97  161  28  4  49  118   1  1  71 131  .289  .370  .618  164  344   0   8   8   5   6 MVP-6,RoY-1,AS
 1988 24 OAK AL 155  550   87  143  22  1  32   99   0  0  76 117  .260  .352  .478  134  263   1   4   4   4  15 MVP-19,AS
 1989 25 OAK AL 143  490   74  113  17  0  33   95   1  1  83  94  .231  .339  .467  130  229   0  11   5   3  23 MVP-25,AS
 1990 26 OAK AL 156  523   87  123  16  0  39  108   2  1 110 116  .235  .370  .489  143  256   1   9   9   7  13 MVP-11,AS
 1991 27 OAK AL 154  483   62   97  22  0  22   75   2  1  93 116  .201  .330  .383  103  185   1   5   3   3  13 AS
 1992 28 OAK AL 139  467   87  125  22  0  42  104   0  1  90 105  .268  .385  .585  175  273   0   9  12   5  10 SS,MVP-4,AS
 1993 29 OAK AL  27   84   16   28   6  0   9   24   0  1  21  19  .333  .467  .726  224   61   0   1   5   1   0
 1994 30 OAK AL  47  135   26   34   3  0   9   25   0  0  37  40  .252  .413  .474  137   64   0   0   3   0   3
 1995 31 OAK AL 104  317   75   87  13  0  39   90   1  1  88  77  .274  .441  .685  200  217   0   6   5  11   9 MVP-16,AS
 1996 32 OAK AL 130  423  104  132  21  0  52  113   0  0 116 112  .312  .467  .730  203  309   0   1  16   8  14 SS,MVP-7,AS
 1997 33 TOT    156  540   86  148  27  0  58  123   3  0 101 159  .274  .393  .646  168  349   0   7  16   9   9
         OAK AL 105  366   48  104  24  0  34   81   1  0  58  98  .284  .383  .628  161  230   0   5   8   4   9 AS
         STL NL  51  174   38   44   3  0  24   42   2  0  43  61  .253  .411  .684  182  119   0   2   8   5   0 MVP-16
 1998 34 STL NL 155  509  130  152  21  0  70  147   1  0 162 155  .299  .470  .752  217  383   0   4  28   6   8 SS,MVP-2,AS
 1999 35 STL NL 153  521  118  145  21  1  65  147   0  0 133 141  .278  .424  .697  178  363   0   5  21   2  12 MVP-5,AS
 2000 36 STL NL  89  236   60   72   8  0  32   73   1  0  76  78  .305  .483  .746  205  176   0   2  12   7   5 AS
 2001 37 STL NL  97  299   48   56   4  0  29   64   0  0  56 118  .187  .316  .492  106  147   0   6   3   3   7
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 16 Seasons         6187      1626      6     1414      8    1596  .263  .394  .588  163        3  78 150  75 147
               1874      1167      252    583       12   1317                            3639

Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Oldschool Flip on May 07, 2007, 03:38:00 AM
12 more to go!
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: MikeThaMachine on May 07, 2007, 03:41:57 AM
12 more to go!

It's weird how the sports Channels and Mags are now seeming to be all about hyping up Barry and his chase for the record especially with how well he's been playin this year.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Oldschool Flip on May 09, 2007, 01:45:18 PM
Now to 11! And fuck Curt Schilling. I hope Bonds taters one off him!
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: MikeThaMachine on May 10, 2007, 02:30:59 AM
Now to 11! And fuck Curt Schilling. I hope Bonds taters one off him!


I have lost almost all respect I've had for Curt, it's one thing to suspect someone of something and quite another to straight out say it as truth with no hard proof what so ever. It's just very unprofessional and def on the level of getbiggers, if he wants to talk trash he should just make a gimmick acount here and let it all out, not under his own name on a baseball blog. ;D BTW Bonds is owning everyone who hates him this year GO BONDS!!!
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: big L dawg on May 10, 2007, 04:50:44 AM
zero respect for either of them
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Oldschool Flip on July 04, 2007, 03:14:32 PM
5 more to History!
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: pumpster on July 04, 2007, 03:29:50 PM
Not much anticipation for this he loses despite getting it.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: bmacsys on July 05, 2007, 05:13:42 AM
Not much anticipation for this he loses despite getting it.

Yeah, I really think nobody outside of San Francisco cares about either this record or his season home run record.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: OzmO on July 05, 2007, 11:20:24 AM
Yeah, I really think nobody outside of San Francisco cares about either this record or his season home run record.

Not a lot of people here (SF bay area) give a crap either.

Bonds should just tie the record and then walk off the field for ever.  He's a disgrace.  He will never have the respect he thinks he deserves for what he's accomplished and that goes for Mark McGuire too.   
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: MikeThaMachine on July 06, 2007, 02:53:11 AM
Not a lot of people here (SF bay area) give a crap either.

Bonds should just tie the record and then walk off the field for ever.  He's a disgrace.  He will never have the respect he thinks he deserves for what he's accomplished and that goes for Mark McGuire too.   


Your blind to the fact that Barry is a serious candidate for the best player to EVER play the game of Baseball. Ignorance like yours never ceases to amaze me. What's next Jack Nicklaus was overrated, Michael Jordan was all hype, Carl Lewis had no competition, etc... ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: bmacsys on July 06, 2007, 05:17:57 AM

Your blind to the fact that Barry is a serious candidate for the best player to EVER play the game of Baseball. Ignorance like yours never ceases to amaze me. What's next Jack Nicklaus was overrated, Michael Jordan was all hype, Carl Lewis had no competition, etc... ::) ::) ::)

I think Bonds has major issues that hurt him, of course the steroid thing. He is a known liar. How he treated his wife. His income tax issues. He treats most people like shitt including fans. He has never won a world series. He has terrible numbers in the post season. Add that shit up and it severely tarnishes him legacy.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: body88 on July 06, 2007, 05:56:56 AM

Your blind to the fact that Barry is a serious candidate for the best player to EVER play the game of Baseball. Ignorance like yours never ceases to amaze me. What's next Jack Nicklaus was overrated, Michael Jordan was all hype, Carl Lewis had no competition, etc... ::) ::) ::)


A lot of sf fans get like this when people rip bonds. Almost like Bonds does not deserve the rep he has. He does not have a ring, and his postseason numbers do suck. That would hurt anyone. Nevermind a known cheater. Bonds has the talent to be considered one of the best to ever play the game. Problem is he took all kinds of illegal shit to get where he is record wise. That would taint anyones legacy. Makes what Hank did drug free even more impressive.

As for Jordan, Lewis, and Nichalus, they where not cheaters. You could come at me with the argument that we cannot know for sure if they took steroids or not, but that is a weak argument used by people who try to justify other players cheating. I know you wouldn't come at me with an argument like that ;)
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: body88 on July 06, 2007, 06:03:22 AM
I think Bonds has major issues that hurt him, of course the steroid thing. He is a known liar. How he treated his wife. His income tax issues. He treats most people like shitt including fans. He has never won a world series. He has terrible numbers in the post season. Add that shit up and it severely tarnishes him legacy.

Pretty clean cut case. All that would tarnish anyones legacy. The juice thing being the most obvious since it is cheating.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: MikeThaMachine on July 06, 2007, 06:36:59 AM

A lot of sf fans get like this when people rip bonds. Almost like Bonds does not deserve the rep he has. He does not have a ring, and his postseason numbers do suck. That would hurt anyone. Nevermind a known cheater. Bonds has the talent to be considered one of the best to ever play the game. Problem is he took all kinds of illegal shit to get where he is record wise. That would taint anyones legacy. Makes what Hank did drug free even more impressive.

As for Jordan, Lewis, and Nichalus, they where not cheaters. You could come at me with the argument that we cannot know for sure if they took steroids or not, but that is a weak argument used by people who try to justify other players cheating. I know you wouldn't come at me with an argument like that ;)


Well since they didn't used to even test how can you say it's cheating. Should they do investigations on every player to play after the introduction to steroids and void all their records and careers. ???
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Rearden Metal on July 06, 2007, 08:42:02 AM
Pretty clean cut case. All that would tarnish anyones legacy. The juice thing being the most obvious since it is cheating.

Show me his negative test, body. Until then, s-p-e-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: pumpster on July 06, 2007, 09:17:23 AM

Your blind to the fact that Barry is a serious candidate for the best player to EVER play the game of Baseball. Ignorance like yours never ceases to amaze me. What's next Jack Nicklaus was overrated, Michael Jordan was all hype, Carl Lewis had no competition, etc... ::) ::) ::)

Time for you to get off his nutz just long enough to realize that he'll never be the clear-cut best ever player for various reasons, especially lack of heart. He doesn't have it even though you look past it and will try to excuse it. There have been other great players WITH that attribute coupled with great talent. He never had it and never will.

BTW stop preaching to others as if you somehow know better.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: pumpster on July 06, 2007, 09:19:29 AM

Well since they didn't used to even test how can you say it's cheating. Should they do investigations on every player to play after the introduction to steroids and void all their records and careers. ???

You are so far up his ass that you refuse to accept your huge bias. Don't bother with yet another post that tries to excuse it.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: OzmO on July 06, 2007, 09:33:25 AM

Your blind to the fact that Barry is a serious candidate for the best player to EVER play the game of Baseball. Ignorance like yours never ceases to amaze me. What's next Jack Nicklaus was overrated, Michael Jordan was all hype, Carl Lewis had no competition, etc... ::) ::) ::)

The dude is on steroids.  Get over it already.   He will forever be held in suspicion and an astrix will be next to his name in the records books.

Jack Nicklaus and Michael Jordan were not.

Calm down.  Take a deep breath.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Rearden Metal on July 06, 2007, 12:34:59 PM
The dude is on steroids.  Get over it already.   He will forever be held in suspicion and an astrix will be next to his name in the records books.

Jack Nicklaus and Michael Jordan were not.

Calm down.  Take a deep breath.

Please prove that any other athlete IS NOT on steroids k thx.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: body88 on July 06, 2007, 02:54:17 PM
Please prove that any other athlete IS NOT on steroids k thx.
Proof of what others may or may not have done has nothing to do with it imo.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: body88 on July 06, 2007, 02:57:31 PM
Show me his negative test, body. Until then, s-p-e-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n.


Not really. Bonds admitted under oath he took steroids. The testimony was leaked. he claimed he took them "unwillingly" but that does not change the fact he used them. The lawyer who leaked it just got 9 more months in jail this past week! His orig sentence we to lenient says a judge.

Not to mention who expects people to believe he did not know he was on juice for years? No test is needed to prove bonds cheated. The fact he is a cock sucker to everyone, has terrible postseason stats, and no ring tarnishes the greatest ever tag also.



 Barry Bonds testified to a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring, but said he didn't know they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.

Bonds told a U.S. grand jury that he used undetectable steroids known as "the cream" and "the clear," which he received from personal trainer Greg Anderson during the 2003 season. According to Bonds, the trainer told him the substances were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a pain-relieving balm for the player's arthritis.
 
According to government attorneys, BALCO founder Victor Conte has identified the designer steroid THG as "the clear." A testosterone-based ointment was identified as "the cream." Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery testified that Conte used flaxseed oil containers to send "the clear" to athletes.

According to a transcript of Bonds' Dec. 4, 2003, testimony reviewed by the Chronicle, prosecutors confronted the slugger with documents allegedly detailing the steroids he used -- "the cream," "the clear," human growth hormone, Depo-Testosterone, insulin and a drug for female infertility that can be used to mask steroid use.

Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: body88 on July 06, 2007, 03:00:37 PM

Well since they didn't used to even test how can you say it's cheating. Should they do investigations on every player to play after the introduction to steroids and void all their records and careers. ???
They can look at the leaked testimony where he admitted he "unwillingly" took juice.  They could take into account he had his best season ever as a geezer( only athlete in history to get better when they where over the hill). Check out his power numbers before and after. etc etc.


 Barry Bonds testified to a grand jury that he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by a trainer who was indicted in a steroid-distribution ring, but said he didn't know they were steroids, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.

Bonds told a U.S. grand jury that he used undetectable steroids known as "the cream" and "the clear," which he received from personal trainer Greg Anderson during the 2003 season. According to Bonds, the trainer told him the substances were the nutritional supplement flaxseed oil and a pain-relieving balm for the player's arthritis.
 
According to government attorneys, BALCO founder Victor Conte has identified the designer steroid THG as "the clear." A testosterone-based ointment was identified as "the cream." Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery testified that Conte used flaxseed oil containers to send "the clear" to athletes.

According to a transcript of Bonds' Dec. 4, 2003, testimony reviewed by the Chronicle, prosecutors confronted the slugger with documents allegedly detailing the steroids he used -- "the cream," "the clear," human growth hormone, Depo-Testosterone, insulin and a drug for female infertility that can be used to mask steroid use.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: OzmO on July 06, 2007, 05:59:39 PM
Please prove that any other athlete IS NOT on steroids k thx.

Please prove to me ALL of them are.  k thx.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: OzmO on July 06, 2007, 06:00:46 PM
Show me his negative test, body. Until then, s-p-e-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n.

so was O.J.'s innocence.......k thx.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: tu_holmes on July 06, 2007, 07:27:44 PM
so was O.J.'s innocence.......k thx.

OJ IS innocent... the Jury said so.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: pumpster on July 06, 2007, 08:23:29 PM
Please prove to me ALL of them are.  k thx.

No one has to prove anything to you; most believe he was heavy into roids. Bottom line he loses badly in the court of public opinion, provable or not. Deal with it.

That's ASIDE from being an extremely unsavory character few care for.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: OzmO on July 06, 2007, 08:40:33 PM
No one has to prove anything to you; most believe he was heavy into roids. Bottom line he loses badly in the court of public opinion, provable or not. Deal with it.

That's ASIDE from being an extremely unsavory character few care for.

Pumpster read higher up on the thread next time.   :)

I believe he was on steroids.  And i think he's an ass.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Rearden Metal on July 07, 2007, 09:05:31 AM
Pumpster read higher up on the thread next time.   :)

I believe he was on steroids.  And i think he's an ass.

I also believe he was on steroids, and I think he's an ass. Still, PLEASE FUCKING EXPLAIN TO ME HOW YOU DETERMINE WHICH ATHLETES ARE/WERE ON STEROIDS/GH OTHER THAN A TEST!!!.

Phsical manifestations of side effects are not apparent in all users. In fact, in most they are not noticable. Did you suspect Palmeiro used? Do you think Jeter does? If no, why not, because he doesn't have a big head (actually he does).

You don't know who's using because you can't know. There's hundreds of guys in every gym who use and you wouldn't have a clue, because they don't have insane muscle, aren't crazy strong, etc. Still, they are using.

MLB, NFL...shit Golf....EVEN TABLE TENNIS has a lot of doping going on. If you can pass the test, YOU ARE FUCKING CLEAR PEOPLE.

Until they test better or make everything legal, there is no even playing field. You don't know how long this has been happening. Steroids have been around for 50+ years, so your idols who were competing for big money WERE USING them for an edge. If you don't think so, you're naive.

So, where does that leave us for Bonds? Well, he's going to break a seemingly unbreakable record (until ARod and Bonds) that was set in an era where steroids existed, amphetamines existed and were rampant, and cocaine and other stimulants were used to perform. Guess what, he's playing the game just like it always has been played.

Why are we applauding Frank Thomas and not Bonds, because he's a nice guy? Why are we applauding Roger Clemens and not Bonds, because he is white? I don't get it. I applaud all these guys, Clemens is a hero of mine, and Bonds, whether you like him or not, is the most devastating hitter we've ever seen.

Stand up and applaud or sit down and shut up. Stop being hypocrites just because he's a dick.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: OzmO on July 07, 2007, 11:27:58 AM
I also believe he was on steroids, and I think he's an ass. Still, PLEASE FUCKING EXPLAIN TO ME HOW YOU DETERMINE WHICH ATHLETES ARE/WERE ON STEROIDS/GH OTHER THAN A TEST!!!.

Phsical manifestations of side effects are not apparent in all users. In fact, in most they are not noticable. Did you suspect Palmeiro used? Do you think Jeter does? If no, why not, because he doesn't have a big head (actually he does).

You don't know who's using because you can't know. There's hundreds of guys in every gym who use and you wouldn't have a clue, because they don't have insane muscle, aren't crazy strong, etc. Still, they are using.

MLB, NFL...shit Golf....EVEN TABLE TENNIS has a lot of doping going on. If you can pass the test, YOU ARE FUCKING CLEAR PEOPLE.

Until they test better or make everything legal, there is no even playing field. You don't know how long this has been happening. Steroids have been around for 50+ years, so your idols who were competing for big money WERE USING them for an edge. If you don't think so, you're naive.

So, where does that leave us for Bonds? Well, he's going to break a seemingly unbreakable record (until ARod and Bonds) that was set in an era where steroids existed, amphetamines existed and were rampant, and cocaine and other stimulants were used to perform. Guess what, he's playing the game just like it always has been played.

Why are we applauding Frank Thomas and not Bonds, because he's a nice guy? Why are we applauding Roger Clemens and not Bonds, because he is white? I don't get it. I applaud all these guys, Clemens is a hero of mine, and Bonds, whether you like him or not, is the most devastating hitter we've ever seen.

Stand up and applaud or sit down and shut up. Stop being hypocrites just because he's a dick.

The issue here is not whether other players are on steroids, it is whether BONDS is on steroids and since you agree what does your post have to do with anything?

With or without steroids BONDS was a good player but his legacy will be forever marred with steroids.  He has shamed the game. 
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Dos Equis on July 07, 2007, 11:55:56 AM
I also believe he was on steroids, and I think he's an ass. Still, PLEASE FUCKING EXPLAIN TO ME HOW YOU DETERMINE WHICH ATHLETES ARE/WERE ON STEROIDS/GH OTHER THAN A TEST!!!.


I don't think a guy adding muscle is proof that he is on the sauce.  You have to look at all of the facts.  Here is what convinced me:

- Complete transformation of his body.
- Doubled his homerun production.
- Head grew late in his 30s.
- Shoe size grew from 10.5 to 13 late in his 30s.  What is the non-drug use explanation for this?
- He admitted during his grand jury testimony that he was taking something, but claimed he thought it was flaxseed oil.   ::)
- He was working hand-in-in-hand with a trainer who was using and selling and worked with an admitted dealer in Conte. 

The fact he didn't fail a drug test means absolutely nothing if he was taking something they couldn't test for.  Same is true of NFL players.  Only about 1 or 2 dummies turn up hot every year, when probably more than half the league is on something. 
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Rearden Metal on July 07, 2007, 07:17:48 PM
I don't think a guy adding muscle is proof that he is on the sauce.  You have to look at all of the facts.  Here is what convinced me:

- Complete transformation of his body.
- Doubled his homerun production.
- Head grew late in his 30s.
- Shoe size grew from 10.5 to 13 late in his 30s.  What is the non-drug use explanation for this?
- He admitted during his grand jury testimony that he was taking something, but claimed he thought it was flaxseed oil.   ::)
- He was working hand-in-in-hand with a trainer who was using and selling and worked with an admitted dealer in Conte. 

The fact he didn't fail a drug test means absolutely nothing if he was taking something they couldn't test for.  Same is true of NFL players.  Only about 1 or 2 dummies turn up hot every year, when probably more than half the league is on something. 


I agree with your assesment. Now, does Palmeiro exhibit these symptoms? My point isn't whether Bonds IS taking them, but with the contention that those who don't have symptoms and a snail trail simply aren't taking them.
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 07, 2007, 07:22:58 PM
The issue here is not whether other players are on steroids, it is whether BONDS is on steroids and since you agree what does your post have to do with anything?

With or without steroids BONDS was a good player but his legacy will be forever marred with steroids.  He has shamed the game. 

Your POV is naive, speculative and hypocritical. Think beyond an elementary level.

The whole game is marred. Every sport in existence is marred. It's only pristine when there simply are no regulations at all, or the regulations can be 100% enforced. Anything less is not acceptable, period.

Why? Because if you put in motion regulations which players must follow and pass tests for, and they indeed pass, then said player is clear of fault. It doesn't matter if he gains 50 lbs and hits 99 homers, if you can't fail him at a test, how can you persecute him?

Is it not cheating if Julio Lugo decided that he wants to hit above .200 and starts juicing? Even if he doesn't exhibit symptoms, wouldn't he be reviled by your view? If so, start reviling just about every athlete you now admire.

Get your heads out of the sand, people.
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Post by: Camel Jockey on July 07, 2007, 07:31:05 PM
Quote
I agree with your assesment. Now, does Palmeiro exhibit these symptoms? My point isn't whether Bonds IS taking them, but with the contention that those who don't have symptoms and a snail trail simply aren't taking them.

Going by observation and his ties to Balco, he probably used more than your average run of mill shortstop wanting to gain 5 lbs.  ::)
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Post by: Camel Jockey on July 07, 2007, 07:32:02 PM
And didn't he claim that he thought the cream steroid was flax seed oil or something?
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Post by: Grape Ape on July 07, 2007, 07:48:18 PM


Why? Because if you put in motion regulations which players must follow and pass tests for, and they indeed pass, then said player is clear of fault. It doesn't matter if he gains 50 lbs and hits 99 homers, if you can't fail him at a test, how can you persecute him?



This is the end of the agrument.

MLB fucked this whole situation up - in 98 they promoted this whole thing during the McGwire/Sosa run, so they're complete hypocrites if they try to change things for Bonds.

At the end of the day, Bonds' numbers will prove him out to be the one of the best ever if not, THE best ever (there will be legimate agruments that Ruth destroys everyone since he outperformed his league by more than anyone ever will, but that's a different argument).  His 73 HR season may be, by far, the best season anyone has ever had.

Imagine this conversation 50 years from  now:

"Why isn't Bonds in the Hall?"

"He cheated, he used steroids"

"Oh, he failed a drug test?"

"Well, no, he never failed a drug test.  He did gain a lot of weight since he was a rookie, and these guys wrote a book based on leaked grand jury testimony, and he hit a lot of HRs late in his late 30s and early 40s, though."

It doesn't hold water.  Yes, I think he used.  But I think so many used during the era that you just can't punish the best player of that era.  It's not fair.

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Post by: big L dawg on July 07, 2007, 08:41:57 PM
yea man its just not fair
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Post by: OzmO on July 07, 2007, 11:09:45 PM
Your POV is naive, speculative and hypocritical. Think beyond an elementary level.

The whole game is marred. Every sport in existence is marred. It's only pristine when there simply are no regulations at all, or the regulations can be 100% enforced. Anything less is not acceptable, period.

Why? Because if you put in motion regulations which players must follow and pass tests for, and they indeed pass, then said player is clear of fault. It doesn't matter if he gains 50 lbs and hits 99 homers, if you can't fail him at a test, how can you persecute him?

Is it not cheating if Julio Lugo decided that he wants to hit above .200 and starts juicing? Even if he doesn't exhibit symptoms, wouldn't he be reviled by your view? If so, start reviling just about every athlete you now admire.

Get your heads out of the sand, people.

Granted my POV may be naive, but what part of my assertions are not true?

Did Bonds not take steriods?

Has his actions have not shamed the game?

i agree about Sosa and McGuire also.  They avoided the negative publicity BONDS is getting now and should have an equal dose.  It is pretty obvious McGuire was on it.

I'm not sure what you saying exactly....are you saying that becuase a person can pass a test he shouldn't be automatically cleared from suspicion in the face blatant symptoms?

I'm a purest and agree with your assertion that nearly all professional sports is marred by this.


This post is about BONDS.  Not everyone else.  And I'd comment the same way if it was.

Maybe they should just open the gates and let anyone do what they want to make it level fro everyone......because trying to prevent it is impossible for a number of reasons.  I'm not for that. 

Anyone got a good solution?
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Post by: Dos Equis on July 08, 2007, 12:39:12 AM
I agree with your assesment. Now, does Palmeiro exhibit these symptoms? My point isn't whether Bonds IS taking them, but with the contention that those who don't have symptoms and a snail trail simply aren't taking them.

Palmeiro tested positive, so there really isn't any question about him.  I also heard that his homerun production doubled when he played with Canseco.

I understand your point.  I agree with you.   
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 08, 2007, 07:07:00 AM
Going by observation and his ties to Balco, he probably used more than your average run of mill shortstop wanting to gain 5 lbs.  ::)

Is english your first language? Man, some people have zero comprehension.
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 08, 2007, 07:09:12 AM
Palmeiro tested positive, so there really isn't any question about him.  I also heard that his homerun production doubled when he played with Canseco.


All true. But would you have looked at Palmeiro and said, "CHEATER!"?

No. We never did. Because he didn't look the part.
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 08, 2007, 07:17:48 AM
Granted my POV may be naive, but what part of my assertions are not true? You assert Bonds is a cheater when he hasn't failed a test.

Did Bonds not take steriods? Unknown and unproven. For all I know he took a myostatin inhibitor, LOL. Point is, he passed the test, so he's clear. Do I THINK he's used? yes.

Has his actions have not shamed the game? No. He's playing the game on the terms the game has set, and won. MLB has shamed itself.

i agree about Sosa and McGuire also.  They avoided the negative publicity BONDS is getting now and should have an equal dose.  It is pretty obvious McGuire was on it. Also unknown and unproven, obvious to our trained eye or not. Speculation gets us in trouble, people. You wouldn't want people speculating on your life's work and persecuting you for something you never were proven to have done. I do think that McGuire is a pansy bitch, though, but that's just my opinion.

I'm not sure what you saying exactly....are you saying that becuase a person can pass a test he shouldn't be automatically cleared from suspicion in the face blatant symptoms? If he passes, you can't persecute him. Catch him or shut up.

I'm a purest and agree with your assertion that nearly all professional sports is marred by this. Absolutely, so either take up crochet, or get over it and cheer. Baseball is still fun to watch. Go Sox!


This post is about BONDS.  Not everyone else.  And I'd comment the same way if it was. In the context of the record, it SHOULD be about Bonds. In the context of drugs, it should be about every player in the league for the last 60 years.

Maybe they should just open the gates and let anyone do what they want to make it level fro everyone......because trying to prevent it is impossible for a number of reasons.  I'm not for that.  It was like this forever up until 98. All the records from all the hero's you admire were set in an era of denial. Thus, you cannot persecute a current player for breaking said records. It's assanine!

Anyone got a good solution?
With all of the billions in sports, if they want to clean it up they have to spend inordinate amounts of money to test and ban all illicit materials. Either they should take an IOC stance, and ban players for life who fail, or they should quit testing altogether.
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Post by: pumpster on July 08, 2007, 07:49:03 AM
Your POV is naive, speculative and hypocritical. Think beyond an elementary level.

The whole game is marred. Every sport in existence is marred. It's only pristine when there simply are no regulations at all, or the regulations can be 100% enforced. Anything less is not acceptable, period.

Why? Because if you put in motion regulations which players must follow and pass tests for, and they indeed pass, then said player is clear of fault. It doesn't matter if he gains 50 lbs and hits 99 homers, if you can't fail him at a test, how can you persecute him?

Is it not cheating if Julio Lugo decided that he wants to hit above .200 and starts juicing? Even if he doesn't exhibit symptoms, wouldn't he be reviled by your view? If so, start reviling just about every athlete you now admire.

Get your heads out of the sand, people.

Talk about preachy & obnoxious.

Thanx for "enlightening" us with your wisdom. ::) ::) It really deserves a shoe up the azz.
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Post by: bmacsys on July 08, 2007, 07:52:23 AM

Well since they didn't used to even test how can you say it's cheating. Should they do investigations on every player to play after the introduction to steroids and void all their records and careers. ???

Its not only Bonds, Palmiero and Big Mac have had their legacies ruined. Big Mac went from a guy idolized by tons of baseball fans to a loser in the wink of an eye with his testimony before congress.
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Post by: pumpster on July 08, 2007, 07:53:05 AM
I also believe he was on steroids, and I think he's an ass. Still, PLEASE FUCKING EXPLAIN TO ME HOW YOU DETERMINE WHICH ATHLETES ARE/WERE ON STEROIDS/GH OTHER THAN A TEST!!!.

Phsical manifestations of side effects are not apparent in all users. In fact, in most they are not noticable. Did you suspect Palmeiro used? Do you think Jeter does? If no, why not, because he doesn't have a big head (actually he does).

You don't know who's using because you can't know. There's hundreds of guys in every gym who use and you wouldn't have a clue, because they don't have insane muscle, aren't crazy strong, etc. Still, they are using.

MLB, NFL...shit Golf....EVEN TABLE TENNIS has a lot of doping going on. If you can pass the test, YOU ARE FUCKING CLEAR PEOPLE.

Until they test better or make everything legal, there is no even playing field. You don't know how long this has been happening. Steroids have been around for 50+ years, so your idols who were competing for big money WERE USING them for an edge. If you don't think so, you're naive.

So, where does that leave us for Bonds? Well, he's going to break a seemingly unbreakable record (until ARod and Bonds) that was set in an era where steroids existed, amphetamines existed and were rampant, and cocaine and other stimulants were used to perform. Guess what, he's playing the game just like it always has been played.

Why are we applauding Frank Thomas and not Bonds, because he's a nice guy? Why are we applauding Roger Clemens and not Bonds, because he is white? I don't get it. I applaud all these guys, Clemens is a hero of mine, and Bonds, whether you like him or not, is the most devastating hitter we've ever seen.

Stand up and applaud or sit down and shut up. Stop being hypocrites just because he's a dick.


STFU YOU WHINY, PREACHY BITCH. JUST BECAUSE YOU DECIDE TO SEE IT A CERTAIN WAY DOESN'T MAKE IT SO.

BONDS IS HORRIBLE ON SEVERAL LEVELS AND HAS BEEN DISMISSED IN THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION WHETHER YOU AND YOUR POMPOUS ASS AGREES OR NOT.
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Post by: bmacsys on July 08, 2007, 07:53:50 AM
Show me his negative test, body. Until then, s-p-e-c-u-l-a-t-i-o-n.

You ever hear of the phrase "overwhelming body of circumstantial evidence"? The truth is out there.
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Post by: pumpster on July 08, 2007, 07:55:13 AM
You ever hear of the phrase "overwhelming body of circumstantial evidence"? The truth is out there.

Self-righteous aholes like this guy like to disect everything and pretend there's really no evidence in order to suit their own biases. But will never admit it.
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Post by: bmacsys on July 08, 2007, 07:56:21 AM

Not really. Bonds admitted under oath he took steroids. The testimony was leaked. he claimed he took them "unwillingly" but that does not change the fact he used them. The lawyer who leaked it just got 9 more months in jail this past week! His orig sentence we to lenient says a judge.



This is whats hilarious. That Bonds and Sheffield said they didn't know what they were taking. But somehow Giambi was told by the same guy what it was? Give me a break. They knew exactly what they were ingesting. Undetectable designer roids.
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Post by: bmacsys on July 08, 2007, 08:00:01 AM
Palmeiro tested positive, so there really isn't any question about him.  I also heard that his homerun production doubled when he played with Canseco.

I understand your point.  I agree with you.   

His first 8 years with the Cubs he averaged about 10 taters a year. He gets Traded to the Texas Rangers where Canseco and Juan Gonzales are playing and magicly hits 40 dingers.
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 08, 2007, 08:09:32 AM
His first 8 years with the Cubs he averaged about 10 taters a year. He gets Traded to the Texas Rangers where Canseco and Juan Gonzales are playing and magicly hits 40 dingers.

And yet, nobody said a thing until he tested positive. Why?
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 08, 2007, 08:11:31 AM
Self-righteous aholes like this guy like to disect everything and pretend there's really no evidence in order to suit their own biases. But will never admit it.

Self righteous? Asshole? Sorry that my pragmatic view shatters your embryonic sight. Fuck you, is all.

I'm not pretending there's no evidence. I'm demanding proof.

You guys are a bunch of whiney girls.
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Post by: pumpster on July 08, 2007, 09:47:28 AM
Self righteous? Asshole? Sorry that my pragmatic view shatters your embryonic sight. Fuck you, is all.

I'm not pretending there's no evidence. I'm demanding proof.

You guys are a bunch of whiney girls.

Demanding proof this late in the game is just BS you little twit. Few accept your arbitrary reasonings; he lost in the court of public opinion and no one cares about your contructs. ;D
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Post by: Deadpool on July 08, 2007, 09:56:41 AM
 :)
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Post by: OzmO on July 08, 2007, 11:32:41 AM
With all of the billions in sports, if they want to clean it up they have to spend inordinate amounts of money to test and ban all illicit materials. Either they should take an IOC stance, and ban players for life who fail, or they should quit testing altogether.

You make some good points. 

Was OJ innocent too?

It's pretty obvious he was or is on some kind of performance enhancing drug that was not legal as per rules.

But if i get you right your attitude is that becuase everyone is doing it why persecute BONDS?  And then becuase of that, don;t worry about it and enjoy the game?  I do for the most part. 
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 08, 2007, 12:49:38 PM
You make some good points. 

Was OJ innocent too?

It's pretty obvious he was or is on some kind of performance enhancing drug that was not legal as per rules.

But if i get you right your attitude is that becuase everyone is doing it why persecute BONDS?  And then becuase of that, don;t worry about it and enjoy the game?  I do for the most part. 

I'm just saying, if you are going to persecute Bonds, be honest and level and admit to yourselves that the use of drugs in MLB (and most all sports) is very widespread and has been for a loooooong time. Focusing on one unlikeable player because he is going to break the record set by a guy who could have been doping too (if you don't think so, you're soooo wrong) just because he's a twat is juvenile and hypocrisy.

I don't think Bonds is clean. I don't think he's free of guilt. I do think that players have been doping for decades, and as such, you might as well asterisk all of sports. I can go back for 60 years and analyze players stats and bodies and give you hundreds of them as examples of likely dopers, not to mention those who exhibit no signs (like Palmeiro) physically.

Nevermind the amphetamines issue, the most used drug in baseball.

You guys are without perspective. Widen your focus.
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 08, 2007, 12:51:58 PM
:)

What does this prove, that he's fat?
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Post by: pumpster on July 08, 2007, 12:55:11 PM
What does this prove, that he's fat?

Superb example of arguing for the sake of arguing. A good reminder that opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one. ;)
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Post by: pumpster on July 08, 2007, 12:58:08 PM
I'm just saying, if you are going to persecute Bonds, be honest and level and admit to yourselves that the use of drugs in MLB (and most all sports) is very widespread and has been for a loooooong time. Focusing on one unlikeable player because he is going to break the record set by a guy who could have been doping too (if you don't think so, you're soooo wrong) just because he's a twat is juvenile and hypocrisy.

I don't think Bonds is clean. I don't think he's free of guilt. I do think that players have been doping for decades, and as such, you might as well asterisk all of sports. I can go back for 60 years and analyze players stats and bodies and give you hundreds of them as examples of likely dopers, not to mention those who exhibit no signs (like Palmeiro) physically.

Nevermind the amphetamines issue, the most used drug in baseball.

You guys are without perspective. Widen your focus.

The funniest thing about you aside from the obnoxiousness is that you yourself have narrow perspectives that you tie into your flawed logic, then tell others to be better than you are. bwhahahaahahahahah

Using a lame argument that everyone else is guilty so it's ok is tired and one-dimensional. Go away you're boring and your arguments are simplistic.


Hope this helps.
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Post by: Dos Equis on July 08, 2007, 01:00:36 PM
:)

Look at the size of that cranium.   :o  Reminds me of this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116996/

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0116996/Ss/0116996/1-1.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0116996
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Dos Equis on July 08, 2007, 01:07:31 PM
I'm just saying, if you are going to persecute Bonds, be honest and level and admit to yourselves that the use of drugs in MLB (and most all sports) is very widespread and has been for a loooooong time. Focusing on one unlikeable player because he is going to break the record set by a guy who could have been doping too (if you don't think so, you're soooo wrong) just because he's a twat is juvenile and hypocrisy.

I don't think Bonds is clean. I don't think he's free of guilt. I do think that players have been doping for decades, and as such, you might as well asterisk all of sports. I can go back for 60 years and analyze players stats and bodies and give you hundreds of them as examples of likely dopers, not to mention those who exhibit no signs (like Palmeiro) physically.

Nevermind the amphetamines issue, the most used drug in baseball.

You guys are without perspective. Widen your focus.

I completely agree.  Drug use permeates pro sports.  With the exception of track and field, I don't think any major sport really wants to crack down on drug use, particularly the NFL.  Too many guys are using, and the players unions, owners, and team management all know it.  It is sort of like the 800 pound elephant in the room.  For example, you have a guy like Vernon Davis who is 6-3, 256, runs a 4.3 40, and is strong as an ox.  Everyone is ga ga over his measureables, but there is zero discussion about what he was using.  No way that guy is clean.  (And I'm a Niner fan.)  He is one of many. 

I'm not happy with Bonds breaking Aaron's record, but I agree that all this fuss over Bonds, but not about anyone else for the most part, is wrong.   
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 08, 2007, 01:28:20 PM
The funniest thing about you aside from the obnoxiousness is that you yourself have narrow perspectives that you tie into your flawed logic, then tell others to be better than you are. bwhahahaahahahahah

Using a lame argument that everyone else is guilty so it's ok is tired and one-dimensional. Go away you're boring and your arguments are simplistic.


Hope this helps.

I'm so much less obnoxious than you, but I'm sure you can't see that.

My perspective is very wide. I don't approve or disapprove, I just see it for what it is.

You are, still, a girl.
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 08, 2007, 01:29:05 PM
I completely agree.  Drug use permeates pro sports.  With the exception of track and field, I don't think any major sport really wants to crack down on drug use, particularly the NFL.  Too many guys are using, and the players unions, owners, and team management all know it.  It is sort of like the 800 pound elephant in the room.  For example, you have a guy like Vernon Davis who is 6-3, 256, runs a 4.3 40, and is strong as an ox.  Everyone is ga ga over his measureables, but there is zero discussion about what he was using.  No way that guy is clean.  (And I'm a Niner fan.)  He is one of many. 

I'm not happy with Bonds breaking Aaron's record, but I agree that all this fuss over Bonds, but not about anyone else for the most part, is wrong.   


glad to see someone else agrees.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on July 08, 2007, 03:27:57 PM
Time for you to get off his nutz just long enough to realize that he'll never be the clear-cut best ever player for various reasons, especially lack of heart. He doesn't have it even though you look past it and will try to excuse it. There have been other great players WITH that attribute coupled with great talent. He never had it and never will.

BTW stop preaching to others as if you somehow know better.


I know what your all thinking but it's not all just a bias. I say he is def one of the top 5 players to ever play, IMO he is the Cormier of Baseball. He has endless talent and ability but he can't pull it together when it really counts. I would say I am a big fan of his but I just can't take when people refuse to acknowledge the fact that with or without drugs he is one of the best players to ever play. He has 7 MVP's and thats almost twice as many as the next best guy, drugs don't give you that many MVP's, in the case of some yeah you could account 1-2 to the drugs giving him the endurance and power to dominate but he earned many of those through pure talent. He is almost like Dan Marino, he has the numbers but not the defining moments of a true champion. Either way you can't deny he is just really that good.
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Post by: YoungBlood on July 08, 2007, 07:13:44 PM
I think too many people are letting the steroid issue and the "classic game of baseball with Hank Aaron" cloud their judgment.
No matter how much shit Barry may or MAY NOT take (yes, I am of the opinion that he IS taking juice), that cannot help his natural gift of being able to judge a pitch and his hand-eye coordination.
Ted Williams used to have umpires ask him if the pitch was a strike or not- and he was the last player to ever bat .400. I guess he must have been on the sauce too? ::)
Hank Aaron- again I'll reiterate this- was drinking "Red Juice" that contained Benzedrine, which is speed similar to ephedra. Yet this fucker (that's right, I'm calling Hank Aaron a fucker >:( ) is being a hypocrite and saying he won't attend Barry's game in which he'll break his record, or making public statements that he doesn't know how to spell Barry's name? That's low. Of all the people that should understand what Barry is going through right now, Hank should be the first to understand. With people making death threats to him as he neared the "white mans" record, Hank should know what it's like.
Yet he's turning his head, because Barry is suspected of taking steroids. Yet he can have speed (the Benzedrine) and it's okay...... ::) ::) ::)
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Post by: pumpster on July 08, 2007, 07:30:01 PM

glad to see someone else agrees.

FYI Bum has a questionable record of judgement & sports prognostication let alone objectivity. He's all over Kobe's nuts. ;)


Hope this helps.
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Post by: Dos Equis on July 08, 2007, 09:31:58 PM
FYI Bum has a questionable record of judgement & sports prognostication let alone objectivity. He's all over Kobe's nuts. ;)


Hope this helps.

 ::)  You are an arrogant idiot who uses a Bowflex.  You also torture the English language like Don King.  Hope this helps. 
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Rearden Metal on July 09, 2007, 04:54:00 AM
FYI Bum has a questionable record of judgement & sports prognostication let alone objectivity. He's all over Kobe's nuts. ;)


Hope this helps.

So it's bad that he loves the best talent left in the NBA? I don't get your point.
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Post by: bmacsys on July 09, 2007, 05:46:34 AM
I think too many people are letting the steroid issue and the "classic game of baseball with Hank Aaron" cloud their judgment.
No matter how much shit Barry may or MAY NOT take (yes, I am of the opinion that he IS taking juice), that cannot help his natural gift of being able to judge a pitch and his hand-eye coordination.

Wrong, number one HGH which Bonds and other guys are accused of using helps your vision. Number two, balls that may have died at the warning track now carry over the fence due to increased bat speed generated by more strength. Number three, these drugs increase endurance dramatically. In August as the season wears on and its hot you don't get tired like a guy who doesn't take drugs. By using these drugs you get a huge edge over a natural player. Come on look at Barrys power numbers from about 1999 on compared to pre 1999. Look at Palmiero, averaging 8 homers per year in his eight years with the Cubs to 40 his first year in Texas playing alongside Canseco.
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Post by: pumpster on July 09, 2007, 06:45:47 AM
::)  You are an arrogant idiot who uses a Bowflex.  You also torture the English language like Don King.  Hope this helps. 

You have no idea whether i use a bowflex you Kobe cock worshiping tool. Your poor judgement is best summarized by your 100% certainty that the Colts weren't winning the superbowl. That's real vs. made-up bowflex crap hahahahahahahah
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Rearden Metal on July 09, 2007, 08:53:21 AM
You have no idea whether i use a bowflex you Kobe cock worshiping tool. Your poor judgement is best summarized by your 100% certainty that the Colts weren't winning the superbowl. That's real vs. made-up bowflex crap hahahahahahahah

meltdown.
Title: Re: Bonds is getting TOO CLOSE!
Post by: Rearden Metal on July 09, 2007, 08:54:49 AM
Wrong, number one HGH which Bonds and other guys are accused of using helps your vision. Number two, balls that may have died at the warning track now carry over the fence due to increased bat speed generated by more strength. Number three, these drugs increase endurance dramatically. In August as the season wears on and its hot you don't get tired like a guy who doesn't take drugs. By using these drugs you get a huge edge over a natural player. Come on look at Barrys power numbers from about 1999 on compared to pre 1999. Look at Palmiero, averaging 8 homers per year in his eight years with the Cubs to 40 his first year in Texas playing alongside Canseco.

HGH makes you tired, dude. Tired and insulin resistant.

Not that it can't help in some ways, but it's not really quantifyable. Some guys will just get better skin tone, others, acromalogy.
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Post by: Dos Equis on July 09, 2007, 09:51:08 AM
meltdown.

Yep.  This is the same guy who called Tiger Woods erratic and overrated and said Cookie Gilchrist was better than Jim Brown.  There are other gems I cannot recall, but he uses a Bowlfex.  I would put this turkey in the Idiots Hall of Fame.   
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Post by: pumpster on July 09, 2007, 01:05:38 PM
Yep.  This is the same guy who called Tiger Woods erratic and overrated and said Cookie Gilchrist was better than Jim Brown.  There are other gems I cannot recall, but he uses a Bowlfex.  I would put this turkey in the Idiots Hall of Fame.   


Desperation to the point of changing the truth. The quote about Gilchrist came from one of the best all-time NFL personnel managers you idiot.

Please please never bet on football; based on last season you'll soon be homeless and unable to post this crap or worship Kobe's balls on getbig. :-*

On your bowflex obsession: did you get it yet? LOL
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Post by: pumpster on July 09, 2007, 01:22:21 PM
meltdown.

Misapplied, overused buzzword. Very last year.

Your baseball posts are so slanted as to be laughable yet here you are informing others that you have it all figured out hahaahahahahahah
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Post by: Dos Equis on July 09, 2007, 01:43:19 PM
Desperation to the point of changing the truth. The quote about Gilchrist came from one of the best all-time NFL personnel managers you idiot.

Please please never bet on football; based on last season you'll soon be homeless and unable to post this crap or worship Kobe's balls on getbig. :-*

On your bowflex obsession: did you get it yet? LOL

 ::)
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Post by: pumpster on July 09, 2007, 03:25:38 PM
Dude you want a bowflex almost as much as a night with Kobe.:o
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Post by: Dos Equis on July 09, 2007, 03:43:37 PM
::)  Hey Don King can you please translate this for me? 

Quote
pumpster
Now he's been forcibly shown lucidity while you soldier on.

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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 09, 2007, 04:33:10 PM
Misapplied, overused buzzword. Very last year.

Your baseball posts are so slanted as to be laughable yet here you are informing others that you have it all figured out hahaahahahahahah

What have I figured out. My arguments are solid, man. I never said they were the only point of view, they're just mine.

Personally, I don't like Bonds. I didn't really like Giambi either until I met him and he was funny and joked around with me. I'd give anyone the same opportunity.

Please tell me, what percentage of MLB players do YOU believe to be using steroids or other banned substances?
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Post by: OzmO on July 09, 2007, 09:48:02 PM
More BONDS......


In his home town, in front of all his fans, the ones who have supported him for years, through all allegations, surly attitudes, after getting paid millions and millions of scrilla, and just 5 away from breaking the all time record.............

BONDs refuses to participate in the home derby.

What a selfish no-class punk biotch.
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Post by: Rearden Metal on July 10, 2007, 04:31:22 AM
More BONDS......


In his home town, in front of all his fans, the ones who have supported him for years, through all allegations, surly attitudes, after getting paid millions and millions of scrilla, and just 5 away from breaking the all time record.............

BONDs refuses to participate in the home derby.

What a selfish no-class punk biotch.

Players have said that the home run derby screws up thier swings for the second half of the season. If you go from trying to make contact to trying to pull the ball out, it's difficult to go back. Some guys can do it, some can't.

I doubt this is his reason, but he should use it!  ;D
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Post by: YoungBlood on July 15, 2007, 07:51:24 AM
Players have said that the home run derby screws up thier swings for the second half of the season. If you go from trying to make contact to trying to pull the ball out, it's difficult to go back. Some guys can do it, some can't.

I doubt this is his reason, but he should use it!  ;D

That's always been his reason to not participate.
I had heard up until that day, that Bonds and Griffey were both entered with a bye for the first round- this coming from my roommate who heard it on the the radio. Obviously this didn't happen and he nor I ever heard any follow up to that.
I also heard some bullshit rumors that the reason why Bonds did not like the HR contest was due to his wrists getting hurt while intentionally swinging for the fences. ::) BS.
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Post by: Grape Ape on July 15, 2007, 09:46:29 AM
Bonds is over 40 years old.  I can give him a pass for not being in the derby.

The derby is stupid, anyway.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on July 16, 2007, 02:31:56 AM
Bonds is over 40 years old.  I can give him a pass for not being in the derby.

The derby is stupid, anyway.


Exactly, no one got on Jordan when he stopped doing the dunk contest. I think his last was in the early 90's or late 80's and no one bashes him for it.
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Post by: big L dawg on July 16, 2007, 04:48:27 AM
I'm 0 for 12 in the last series,I'm fat,I can't play a lick of defense,my huge head is weighing me down,I'm embarrassing myself every time I take the field,Man I hope I hit them 5 HR's soon.I shouldn't even be wearing this uniform.now GO AWAY!
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Post by: tu_holmes on July 16, 2007, 09:03:50 PM
I'm 0 for 12 in the last series,I'm fat,I can't play a lick of defense,my huge head is weighing me down,I'm embarrassing myself every time I take the field,Man I hope I hit them 5 HR's soon.I shouldn't even be wearing this uniform.now GO AWAY!

Oh wow... Someone has a slump? Man... I've never seen a 26 year old with that... ::)
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Post by: Grape Ape on July 17, 2007, 06:52:10 AM
Barry's in a slump like every player goes through.

What doesn't help him, is the way he acts during.  Get pissed.  Sure.  But don't bark "go away" to reporters after they ask you questions.

It's this behavior that makes people hate him.  I don't think the steroids thing would be as bad if he was a Mo Vaughn, nice guy type.
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Post by: body88 on July 17, 2007, 10:39:18 AM
Barry's in a slump like every player goes through.

What doesn't help him, is the way he acts during.  Get pissed.  Sure.  But don't bark "go away" to reporters after they ask you questions.

It's this behavior that makes people hate him.  I don't think the steroids thing would be as bad if he was a Mo Vaughn, nice guy type.

Exactly. If a guy like Papi or Jeter was on the sauce, no one would give a shat. That or they would all make excuses for them.
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Post by: tu_holmes on July 18, 2007, 06:33:02 PM
Exactly. If a guy like Papi or Jeter was on the sauce, no one would give a shat. That or they would all make excuses for them.

I agree... It's definitely the fact people don't "like" him.

In reality though, at your job, if you're one of the best of all time at it... Do you really need people to like you?
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Post by: Dos Equis on August 04, 2007, 10:42:42 PM
*
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Post by: Al-Gebra on August 05, 2007, 01:00:28 AM
*

h8r.
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Post by: Dos Equis on August 05, 2007, 01:38:27 PM
h8r.

Do you think he will put the size 10.5 or the size 13 shoes in the Hall of Fame? 
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on August 06, 2007, 06:47:52 AM
*


You have a few thousand others for every player who ever touched anything.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on August 06, 2007, 06:49:10 AM
Do you think he will put the size 10.5 or the size 13 shoes in the Hall of Fame? 


Let me guess your the kind of guy who still holds a grudge against Pete Rose ::)
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Post by: danielson on August 06, 2007, 06:50:15 AM

Let me guess your the kind of guy who still holds a grudge against Pete Rose ::)

I think Pete will get his revenge against Kane one day!
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Post by: Dos Equis on August 06, 2007, 12:39:32 PM

Let me guess your the kind of guy who still holds a grudge against Pete Rose ::)

Wrong.
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Post by: big L dawg on August 06, 2007, 06:50:12 PM
never will be excepted as the HR king,and those that do will move on to the next guy that gets close because your a bunch of front runners.
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Post by: tu_holmes on August 06, 2007, 07:11:35 PM
never will be excepted as the HR king,and those that do will move on to the next guy that gets close because your a bunch of front runners.

Isn't that what happens when someone breaks a record?

Eventually someone comes along and it's their time... That's what breaking records is all about.
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Post by: MikeThaMachine on August 07, 2007, 02:11:46 AM
never will be excepted as the HR king,and those that do will move on to the next guy that gets close because your a bunch of front runners.


But wouldn't the front runner be the guy in the lead ::) I guess that would make him king unless your the type to live in the past your whole lives and hate everything new and/or different.
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Post by: blinky on August 07, 2007, 09:58:35 PM
well the SOB finally broke it  >:(
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Post by: Geo on August 07, 2007, 10:27:51 PM
I figure just about the time the press and public stop talkin about the steroid era and it all dies down in 7 or 8 years and barry's retired with 800 -820 bombs A Rod'll be on his heals and passing him,so there's no need for the *really....
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Post by: blinky on August 07, 2007, 10:34:50 PM
I figure just about the time the press and public stop talkin about the steroid era and it all dies down in 7 or 8 years and barry's retired with 800 -820 bombs A Rod'll be on his heals and passing him,so there's no need for the *really....

you really think bonds is gonns hit even 44 more(800)???

hes retiring after this year and will maybe hit 10 more.
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Post by: Geo on August 07, 2007, 10:39:49 PM
who said he's retireing ?
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Post by: blinky on August 07, 2007, 10:45:16 PM
who said he's retireing ?

if he wasnt so close to the record he never would have come back this year. hes old and hurt and was close to retiring after last year. i think most people know hes done after this year. he doesnt even play every game now.
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Post by: Geo on August 07, 2007, 11:04:45 PM
if he wasnt so close to the record he never would have come back this year. hes old and hurt and was close to retiring after last year. i think most people know hes done after this year. he doesnt even play every game now.

are you nuts ?

he's on pace to hit 35 bombs with an OBP of .491,he signed a one year extention with the giants meaning after this year he probably go's to an amercan league team and could DH and easily play for another productive 3 years,he may just decide he wants to put this record out of A-Rod reach because after A-Rod there's absolutely NOBODY on the horizon to touch his HR totals,you gotta remember Barry was raised in the Giants locker room and if you think he's gonna walk away while he's still productive you're dreamin !
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Post by: blinky on August 07, 2007, 11:23:42 PM
are you nuts ?

he's on pace to hit 35 bombs with an OBP of .491,he signed a one year extention with the giants meaning after this year he probably go's to an amercan league team and could DH and easily play for another productive 3 years,he may just decide he wants to put this record out of A-Rod reach because after A-Rod there's absolutely NOBODY on the horizon to touch his HR totals,you gotta remember Barry was raised in the Giants locker room and if you think he's gonna walk away while he's still productive you're dreamin !

i may be nuts but thats my opinion. hes 43 and hurt and considered retirment the last couple years due to his injuries (age).
could he go to the AL and just DH?? sure he could and he may just do that. would make it easier for him to play in more games not having to take the field. but i think hes happy now that he broke the record and will retire after this year.

as for his numbers right now..... sure his OBP is high but thats because so many teams still walk him. his BA is just under .270 and has steadily declined the last few years.

right now on one knows what hes gonna do but him. guess we'll see in a few months.
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Post by: big L dawg on August 08, 2007, 12:15:45 AM


first you say a-rod will be on his heels then you say bonds might put the record out of reach.your a moron.and bonds would have to play 3 more years to reach 800hr's.his production has dropped every year since drug testing began.
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Post by: Geo on August 08, 2007, 12:30:50 AM

first you say a-rod will be on his heels then you say bonds might put the record out of reach.your a moron.and bonds would have to play 3 more years to reach 800hr's.his production has dropped every year since drug testing began.

not real big on thinking before ya post are ya ?

 ;D

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Post by: tu_holmes on August 09, 2007, 01:37:03 AM
you really think bonds is gonns hit even 44 more(800)???

hes retiring after this year and will maybe hit 10 more.

He's 17th in the Majors for Homeruns... SEVENTEENTH! Is there anyone in the top 16 who plan on retiring any time soon?

The guy can still blast bombs... He'll retire when he's good and ready, but I certainly don't think it will be at the end of this season... He's definitely got three 30+ Home Run seasons left in him I think.

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Post by: rockyfortune on August 09, 2007, 05:38:31 AM
the great pumpkinhead...
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Post by: rockyfortune on August 09, 2007, 05:42:44 AM
must be a glandular issue...