Bonds, the HR chase & the race issue

Well said.

Baseball will try to completely ignore Bonds as he breaks the record and then sit back and pray for ARod to break it ASAP.

 

Oh, I remember it at the time. Bonds gave the Pirates every opportunity to keep him before the '92 season. They just flat out blew it.

 

What accounts for a great deal of the scrutiny is simple: Bonds is poised to break the most revered record in American sports.

If Clemens were pitching tomorrow for his 512th win, he still wouldn't be as closely watched or widely judged as Bonds.

 

Hell man, look at your average English essay in a college class. Look at cable news and the increase of misspelled statements either on the ticker or on the screen behind the anchorperson. Parents and teachers aren't pushing perfection. The industry cuts you to the bone to where you're using interns or overworked salaried people. No one cares anymore. It's all about getting it said, getting it printed or aired and in honor of Larry the Cable Guy, "gettin' 'er done" and to show as much of a profit for the top brass as possible...knowing that America will either buy the crap or do without.

And all of this is brought to you by the underachieving excuses of the Democrats on education and corporate profit goals at any cost of the Republicans. Cause and effect is a chain of events.

 

I think the difference between Bonds and Clemens seems to be - and somebody correct me if I'm wrong - is the way their teammates view them. Both can be prickly people, but I get the impression that teammates like Clemens more than Bonds. With Clemens, it's "he may be a jerk, but he's our jerk"

Bonds also portrays himself as a "victim of the media" and that can always play well among a lot of people. Compare how Bonds handled the questions about steroids compared to how Giambi handled it. I can understand how black people might feel he's getting a raw deal, but I think you can't look at him just as a black person but someone who is the some of a major leager and maybe has a sense of entitlement from that experience.

All that said, I have no doubt he belongs in the Hall of Fame because if he had quit in 1998, he would be in the Hall of Fame. The thing which seems offensive about Bonds to me, a middle-aged white guy, is that he didn't have to cheat and he knew how good he was. Jose Canseco in his book believed he wouldn't be a major league player if he didn't use steroids. Barry Bonds couldn't have thought that - he was always an All-Star.

 

Both are PRICKS. Pure and simple.

 

First of all, that wasn't my only post on this thread you idiot. Second of all, that post was intended towards sportsbruh.

P.S. But of course Boom, we aaaaaall need the KKK perspective from you.

 

And don't think for a single second that I didn't know your intentions with that post. You and your little klansmen group loooooove to tip toe around line. You know damn well that heyabbot's post was racist and you tried to cover it up with that post by making it seem as if that was my only post.
And by the way people, don't be surprised if this thread gets nuked because this is probably going to show the fraud that Boom is.

EDIT: I won't be surprised if this thread gets nuked because that's what usually happens when I reveal the truth about this fraud.

 

Hey chip - it is you who digs deeper into fraudom with each and every one of your posts.

 

Well, he's not married, so that'd be frauleindom.

 

I'm shocked, shocked to learn that how people perceive Barry Bonds is strongly influenced by race.

What's next, a research study that says how people perceive fellatio is strongly influenced by gender?

 

Not if he is true to the koran.