It's fair to assume that nearly everyone, by now, has heard about Barry Bonds smashing a historic homerun out of the park to pass Hank Aaron as the all-time homerun leader. Some of you may not care about sports, some of you may like Bonds, and some of you may be exploding with emotion over this thing - I, however, am entirely sick of hearing the commentary and hoopla surrounding Bonds. I love MLB and watch more Sportscenter than is humanly acceptable, but I doubt I'm the only one asking the media to give it a rest. Sorry if you're from San Fran and love Bonds, but Mr. Big Head (although he's got the homerun hitting talent) used roids and is more deserving of an asterisk by his name than a horrible typo you made talking to your pal on instant messenger. So, until A-Rod crushes his record in 10 years or so - here are some celebratory songs Barry.
[MP3] Oasis - I Can See A Liar
[MP3] Boston - A Man I'll Never Be
[MP3] All-Time Quarterback - Rules Broken
[MP3] The White Stripes - Truth Doesn't Make A Noise
12 comments:
Great just what I want to hear. Whiny white hipsters crying about sports records and athletes they don't really know anything about, but jumped on the hate bandwagon as easily as they do with the latest hot band. (It's the National right now, right?)
Granted you're probably a real sports fan Nathan, but lets be honest. Bonds is first ballet Hall-of-Famer even before accusations began of alleged steroid use (of which he hasn't been convicted, though he's owned plenty of pitchers who have been found juicing). Selig of course will do anything to vilify Bonds as hes the personification of his entire blunder filled career as Baseball Commissioner.
He'd still be the only 500-500 player to ever be in the HoF, and the reason the media are probably talking so much about it, is because it just happened, and it's kinda a big deal. If you don't want to hear commentary, then shut the tv off, turn off the macbook, go outside and breathe some fresh air.
FunFact: Given modern rules and field dimensions, Hank Aaron probably wouldn't of even been Home Run Champion.
Wikipedia'D - "As impressive as Ruth's 1921 numbers were, they could have been more so under modern conditions. Bill Jenkinson's 2006 book, The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs, is a detailed examination of each of Ruth's 714 career home runs, plus several hundred long inside-the-park drives and "fair-foul" balls that would have been ruled fair after a 1931 rule change made balls that hit the foul poles home runs. The title comes from the stellar 1921 season, in which the author concludes that Ruth would have been credited with 104 home runs, if modern rules and field dimensions were in place."
i for one emphatically agree with Nathan and disagree with jasmine.
any idea that bonds is somehow even to be considered in the echelon of great players like ruth, aaron, gibson, jackie robinson is ridiculous. those guys understood baseball as a team sport. they cared about their fans and never put themselves above the progress of their team, nor did they ever disrespect and insult their fans as bonds does ad nauseum.
p.s. jasmine despite all your attempts to give a well reasoned response i think you should check out these wiki/ actually know what the words mean before you deploy them
ballot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot
ballet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet
-Will
Well Will you really got me there. You pointing out a simple typo like that really shows that my Ivy League education is going to waste.
Bonds loves San Fransisco and loves his fans, who are among the only ones loyal to sadly in MLB. So you can stop with the libel there.
Next time try supporting your argument with some facts or actual baseball knowledge, before you point out typos as a method of marginalizing someone's argument. It's pretty hard not to be a team player when you've racked up the following accolades in a baseball career:
Holds record for most MVP awards (7) and consecutive MVP awards (4); (1990, 1992-93, 2001-04). Note: the current version of the MVP award has been given since 1931. Prior to that year, the League Awards were only given to a player once (from 1922-1929) and sometimes not at all (from 1915-1921).
Not only is he the only player with 400 home runs and 400 stolen bases, but 500 home runs and 500 stolen bases. That's called hustle and sacrificing your body for the team.Yeah teammates hate that kind of worth ethic.
# 8-Time Gold Glove winner for NL Outfielder (1990-94, 1996-98)
# 12-Time Silver Slugger winner for NL Outfielder (1990-94, 1996-97, 2000-04)
# 14-Time All-Star (1990, 1992-98, 2000-04, 2007)
Yeah he really is a loathed self-concerned player. That's why people consider him the best baseball player in the last fifty years. I guess hating people or deriding his accolades is hip and easy, but you're a tool if you don't realize how good a baseball player he is. The fact that he racks up so many walks and is still able to go yard, or knock a ball into the Cove, when so many younger players were struggling during the Derby to even go yard shows his power and versatility.
And since you like to mince words, you might want to check your verb usage:
de·ploy /dɪˈplɔɪ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[di-ploi] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object)
1. Military. to spread out (troops) so as to form an extended front or line.
2. to arrange in a position of readiness, or to move strategically or appropriately: to deploy a battery of new missiles.
–verb (used without object)
3. to spread out strategically or in an extended front or line.
4. to come into a position ready for use: the plane can't land unless the landing gear deploys.
[Origin: 1470–80; < F déployer, equiv. to dé- dis-1 + ployer to fold; see ploy]
I don't care for Bonds one way or another, but Will you just got ripped apart.
in terms of baseball, yes will got ripped apart.
but jasmine, first you criticize will for marginalizing your argument by pointing out a spelling error, then you go and do the same thing to him (only less effectively because a word's meaning is much more malleable than its spelling)?
anyway, i don't give a crap about bonds and I don't really follow baseball... so i've got nothing to say about that
yes Bonds has been a great player...but the thing that separates him from Aaron, Ruth, and so many others is that the American consensus is that the others "did it fair" and Bonds didn't. Everything good he might have done without steroids was rendered null and void (perhaps not in his performance as you point out Jasmine with the arguably pre-roids stats), but within the American ethos. And that's a deep ethos. It's a place where Americans escape to a place where hard work and talent alone reign. It's our last vestige of American Dream, and Bonds doesn't fit that mold. I think the reason Bond is not embraced is not because of statistics but more because of baseball myth and legacy. That's what really drives the game.
Not to mention before being such an excellent team player it's certainly not been helping the division worst Giants. And seeing as how they lost on the same night he shattered the record goes to show that some things in baseball are more important than big slugging.
I'm with Jasmine. Can we take back Clemens 340 wins? Went to school with a current Astro who says without apology that Clemens waits til June every year to play so he can cycle down from HGH and roids'.
If I told you you could take a pill and make 20 times what you currently making not a single one of you blowhards wouldn't be fighting to be first in line.
Bonds was the best before he cheated and the best after. None of these guys in the steroid era will ever be legitimate in some people's eyes.
PS Jasmine is making me horny with her sports knowledge and Ivy League education.
Bonds is/was a great baseball player--no doubt about it. By the same token, he used a lot of steroids in the middle and latter part of his career. What would he have done had he never injected himself? We will never know, he chose to do it and now he has to live with the consequences. Part of those consequence is people arguing about the validity of the record and his spot in the HOF. I'd feel the same if McGuire, Canseco, Caminiti, Palmeiro, or Sosa was the one breaking the record.
I can remember when Aaron broke Ruth's record and how excited the nation was and I was. Bonds breaks Aaron's record and I didn't even bother to watch on SportsCenter.
shut the fuck up Nathaniel you have no clue what you're talking about. Stick to music
jasmine = barry's love child? the 'roids will catch up with him sooner or later. money's on frying the liver. so sad, barry. you could have been a legit. contender... -obd
Please stick to music, Nathan. Based on your writeup on Bonds, sports commentary is not your forte.
Thank you for the asterisk.
Don't let jasmine's claim of an "Ivy League" education fool you. She don't know shit.
And it's funny when someone attacks someone for being an elitist but then mentions where they went to college as if it gives them more credibility.
AND HAS ANYONE NOTICED THAT SHE MENTIONED THAT NATHAN IS WHITE!? WHITE PEOPLE CAN'T TALK ABOUT SPORTS NOW?!?! BECAUSE THEY'RE WHITE!?!?!?
Thanks Ivy League. Another winner.
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