Empty Home Run Record

I do not watch baseball, so I cannot write about this in an informed manner.  But I do know that Greed, not baseball, is the national game. 

I think you are saying the handwriting is on the wall, and if so, I couldn’t agree with you more.

Well, when cheaters and liars can be held in high esteem in our society, we should understand what we have become.  Bonds is a symtom of this greed.  Anything to get one over another, even to the detriment of himself.  He, and we have beomce our own worst enemy.

1. Bonds may have been the least loved/ most hated player in the game since Ty Cobb. He's been a prick since at least his playing days at ASU, so alot of the people jumping on the Bonds is a Roids user are the same people who hated him before the roids.
2. Obviously Bonds was using, (Balco his trainer is in Federal Prison, won't testify against Bonds) BUT remember that most of the players who've been caught using Roids have been pitchers. The Juice flows both ways. Bonds benefited and was wronged by roids pitchers.
3. At the height of the HR races, is anyone telling me that Mark McGwire (who kept a bottle of androstine in his locker) or Corky McSosa weren't using "supplements" as well are pretty dishonest. And Jason Giambi has copped to using roids. And if anyone recalls a guy on the Phillies named Dykstra, started with the Mets, in mid 80's; Dude was a scrawny 175 pounder, then comes back at like 230, and can suddenly hit dingers.
4. Bonds, before he ballooned up, and started hitting 45 plus HRs/yr, he had only had 2 seasons better than 40 hrs.

• Ruth had the HR record early in his career, he was chasing no one, he was the man. Whereas, everyone since has had 714 in front of them.
  
• In Ruth's first 4 seasons, he was primarily a pitcher, and a good one. So add on another
  
• At the end of his career, early 30's many of the games rules were changed, including balls fair when passing fair poles being fair - before if ball landed in stands in foul territory it was a foul, balls getting changed when scuffed, and the strike zone changing from Ruth's day from being letters to knees, to today where it is really belt to knees.
• When Ruth was hitting 54 homers in 1920, the St. Louis Browns were next with 50 -- as a team. The Browns' George Sisler was second among individuals with 19. How is that for dominating an era, always a leading index of Hall of Fame worthiness? When Bonds was hitting his 73 in 2001, seven others were clocking in at 47-plus.

• Consider the 1921 season, his second with the Yankees: While lofting 59 of his signature homers, Ruth also batted .378, drove in 171 runs and his total of 204 hits added up to 457 bases.

  In his 73-homer season, Bonds batted 50 points lower, scored 42 fewer runs, had 46 fewer hits and totaled 46 fewer bases.

• For 31 years, he simultaneously held World Series records for both homers hit (15) and consecutive shutout innings pitched (29) -- which should be the end-all testament to his versatile greatness. 
  
• 94-26 as a pitcher with a 2.28 ERA
• Ruth died of throat cancer on Aug. 16, 1948, 14 years after removing his pinstripes for the last time. His body lay in state at Yankee Stadium, viewed by more than 100,000 fans solemnly filing past.

Let's talk about sport.

to all of you Faiser Crane wanna bees.

Some of you are expressing yourselves as if following the sport is some kind of low brow experience.  In arrogance you express tiffany style that you don't follow it, or that somehow it is diversive.  Well, I note too that anyone who sits in their family room with the recording of some hi brow concert music, using a spoon as a baton pretending to be a conductor is diversive too.  In fact, it simply seems foolish to me.  The same goes for reading fifteen books that say the same thing with 20 dollar words.

Now, Zanubiyah's take on sport.  In this household, the other religion is sport.  I played sport as a young girl too.  First soccer (as all kids I knew did) in the streets, or in my case, mostly on the roof of the neighbour's house.  I then was in a group equavilant to "double dutch" in America and did pretty well against others.  We supported soccer teams...well, our hairy counterparts did loudly and we did less loudly.  I would have to say that in the "dark time", it was a little less dark to cheer on your team.  It was the only thing us and the oppressor had in common.  We could argue about that to them, and somehow, it was OK to disagree.

I guess you are all right.  It is a diversion.  There was a song during the "dark time".  Most of us knew it from memory.   It's title I would translate it to English as "You have to laugh to keep from crying".  I guess sport sometimes was like that.  We might be coming to those times here in America. 

Yes, I hate to see cheaters get recognition  simply because those who achieved it before did it through hard work, practice and patience.  Perhaps the reason Barry Bonds is given the record is because these things are lost here.  He took the easy way, over and above the right way and no one complains...because perhaps it is the new way for everything now.  Perhaps it is telling of our society.  Perhaps it is telling why people are not in the streets fighting for their liberities and privacies.  It is much easier to be lead than to lead.