2013 MLB Regular Season running thread

A-Rod hits his third home run and 650th of his career. Probably asking too much, but with 31 games to go, he needs 10 HRs to tie Willie Mays for fourth place all-time and earn the first $6 million bonus.

Keep the faith, people. The Yankees could throw a big old party.

 

Man, I hope he gets there and does it at Yankee Stadium.

 

How many clean home runs? No more than 300 tops. I would go with 192, just for ease of explanation — the 189 he hit in Seattle and the three he has this season ... good for a tie for 329th overall with Ray Durham, Edwin Encarnacion, Carl Furillo and Al Rosen. (Hey! He's 10 away from Bill Dickey and Carl "Dinosaurs Didn't Exist" Everett!)

 

189 in Seattle?

I don't think he has played a day of professional baseball clean.

 

As long as he doesn't reach 762 I'll be happy.

 

You'll be happy if one PED user doesn't catch another?

 

Exactly. Pretty much both jerkoffs also. Difference Bonds is a transparent asshole and did nothing to make people like him, while ARod seems to hope people will like him.

 

I don't really think he has, either, but right now there's no hard evidence he ever used in Seattle, is there? Until then, I'm willing to give him the Seattle years and this season, because he sure never played a day in Texas, or to this point in New York.

 

I'm not willing to give him anything. He used. His records are tainted, period. Regardless of how you feel about users getting into the Hall, you can't play the game of how many home runs were clean and how many weren't.

 

The Hall of Fame is full of cheaters. So if hypocrites want to ban players from the so-called Steroid Era, they'd better be willing to ban everybody from that era.
I think that's wrong. The Hall is, at its core, a museum of the game's history. That history unfortunately includes the Steroid Era. You cannot completely exclude a generation of players who are under a cloud of steroid suspicion because for every player we know about - or think we know about (Bonds) - there are 10 players who used PEDs and we have no idea what their names are. Because nobody knows for sure who used and who didn't use, you have to put the best players from that era into the Hall. You either exclude everybody or you include everybody. You can't pick and choose which players you like and "think" were clean.
These hypocritical voters who praised McGwire and Sosa in 1998 for saving baseball are the same holier-than-thou jackasses who blast those guys today for being cheaters. The best players from the Steroid Era belong in the Hall. Period.

 

I'm a Giants fan. I'll admit to some bias here.

 

I'm not saying this to be an asshole, but to let you know the outside perspective:

Nobody cares about 762. Nobody. Not a breathing human outside of the Bay Area cares about 762. I was actually startled this morning watching MLB Network when I saw 756, I assume, as part of a montage of baseball all-time highlights.

Nobody cares about it. Nobody thinks about it. Until you wrote the number on this thread, I couldn't have rattled it off with a gun to my head.