Bonds Homer Reaction

[ripkengamers]

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I am selling one of my Barry Bonds rookie cards to the highest bidder that I bought when I was in Jr. High School. I for one do not believe that Barry took steroids at any point in his career and believe he will be in the Hall of Fame someday. Attached is a copy of the card.

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Haha!

Chris ~

You had the winning bid for the Bonds rookie card. Congratulations. Now that he's broken the record you may also be interested in his current card shown below.
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[3arod13]

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My reaction wasn't what I think it should have been for someone breaking the all time HR record. Barry would have pounded out a nice total number of HR's, but I don't believe it would have been enough to break the record. Don't believe Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds would have come close or even broken Roger Maris' season HR record either.

But I also wonder about back in the day. What was available to those players? What could or did they take (if anything) to enhance, and or help their performance? How long has this been going on in baseball?

The media then, compared to today's media is totally different. Today, they look for dirt. Make up dirt. Can't wait to get dirt and blow it up bigger than it is.

Overall, I'm dissapointed being at this milestone and not being as excited as I should be. I wish none of this would ever have happened. As a die-hard baseball fan, it took the wind right out of me. I should be enjoying this milestone much more, instead of enjoying it with an *

Regards, Tony

[Jags Fan Dan]

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My reaction wasn't what I think it should have been for someone breaking the all time HR record. Barry would have pounded out a nice total number of HR's, but I don't believe it would have been enough to break the record. Don't believe Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds would have come close or even broken Roger Maris' season HR record either.

But I also wonder about back in the day. What was available to those players? What could or did they take (if anything) to enhance, and or help their performance? How long has this been going on in baseball?

The media then, compared to today's media is totally different. Today, they look for dirt. Make up dirt. Can't wait to get dirt and blow it up bigger than it is.

Overall, I'm dissapointed being at this milestone and not being as excited as I should be. I wish none of this would ever have happened. As a die-hard baseball fan, it took the wind right out of me. I should be enjoying this milestone much more, instead of enjoying it with an *

Regards, Tony

I agree completely. I am very underwhelmed, and I would feel the same if McGwire, Sosa, or any of the other alleged users had done it.

[geoff]

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Get him to sign the Bonds BP Bat.That would be a cool bat to own for a Bonds Fan if you ever try to sell the bat.

[camarokids]

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I am and have NOT been excited about Bonds hitting 756 .

A friend of mine who does not collect baseball stuff like we do . He tells me , my game used baseball collection is going to be worthless due to Bonds breaking Hammerin' Hanks HR Record and the steroid issue.

I say there will always be collectors who will be wanting to buy if I ever want or needed to sell my collection . But , I like my collection regardless .....

[cjmedina1]

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Chris

Nice work

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[godwulf]

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Hey, do you think Mike Bacsik memorabilia is gonna increase in value now?

Just kidding.

Actually, it's not for sale, but I just realized that I have a road jersey Bacsik wore with Team USA during the 2006 Olympic qualifying tournament - the team that beat the Cubans in Havana in the final game. I bought Bacsik's jersey, one from Mark Reynolds (currently the DBacks' starting 3rd Baseman), and the lineup card from the American dugout, that last game against the Cubans. I got Reynolds to sign his jersey for me a couple of months ago, and I considered having him sign the card - he was in the starting lineup that night - but then decided that it ought to be preserved as is.

[JasonM33]

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There was a time in the lat 90's that I thought Barry Bonds was the best all-around player in the moern era. Now I'm not so sure. I'm conflicted about the whole homerun record thing. I'm not really mad about it, but I'm not happy either. The records have been diminished in my opinion. Once these guys started hitting 60 and 70 homeruns after age 35 I lost interest. If they would have kept hitting 40 or 50 I would have been fine with it. I know, I'm a hypocrite. I'm just being honest.

-Jason M

[both-teams-played-hard]

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I realize homers are fun to watch. But to the true baseball fan, would you rather watch Bonds or Ichiro?

[bigtime59]

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I realize homers are fun to watch. But to the true baseball fan, would you rather watch Bonds or Ichiro?

Ichiro, hands down. Chicks may dig the longball, but I'd rather see a triple than a home run any day of the week. Besides, as an Orioles fan, I've virtually forgotten what it feels like to see my team hit a HR!

[bigtime59]

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I did not see 756. I had just spent the evening in Camden Yards trying to see whether my seat or me melted first. (As it turned out, it was the Orioles' bullpen that melted, but oh, well...)

[sportscentury]

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Excuse me while I hijack this Barry lovefest..But, who the f**k is Jackson Pollack?

Warren,

Pollock was all the rave during the abstract expressionism movement (and has remained pretty famous in the art world). I never cared for his work that much, but some others, such as Willem de Kooning, produced some pretty thoughtful work. I think people liked Pollock as much for his technique as his product, as he would literally fling paint across a huge canvas as it lay on the floor, and the result was a seemingly random spattering of various paint colors (hence the joking reference made in this thread). Somewhere around here I've got a couple of photos of him in action, if anyone cares (though I doubt anyone does). I could never make much (meaningful) sense of his pieces.

Best,
Reid

[David]

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I saw a Pollack painting yesterday at the Seattle Art Museum. Some of his paintings sold for like $50 million plus.

As far as Bonds goes, he hit some of his home runs while using steroids. He admitted this (flaxseed/clear), so that is fact. I'm surprised no one asked him, "Okay, for the sake of argument, let's assume you thought you were using flax seed. How long did you use this flax seed oil?"

His trainer isn't sitting in prison because he doesn't want to say Barry Bonds likes candy canes and The Simpsons reruns.

Okay now, Bonds admitted to the grand jury that his trainer gave his steroids but that he 'thought' it was flax seed. Bonds said never knowingly used nor would use steroids and is the against the use of steroids. He even lectured his son Nokolai against steroids on television. So why, then, does he support and stay friends with and say glowing things about the trainer he paid who slipped him the steroids!?!?! Wouldn't someone like Bonds who was adamantly against steroids (as he claimms) and the use of it being suing Anderson for slipping the steroids? Wouldn't Bonds or you or anyone else report a gym trainer who slipped you steroids to the police and volunteer to to testify against him in court? Isn't supporting the trainer, saying what a great and trusted friend he is, the last thing Bonds or you or anyone else be doing if the slipped you steroids under the name 'flaxseed oil'?

San Francisco fans support him, but if he played for the Mets, Braves, Red Sox or any other team, they would have the same opinion Bonds as the people outside of San Francisco ... I admit that I am not without team loyalty. It's not coincidence that I was raised in Wisconsin and my favorite player is Robin Yount.

[geoff]

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Ichiro has the sweetest swing that I have ever seen.That is why he hits the ball so well.I love the Japanese players swings and have alot of Respect for those guys.

[David]

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One last thing. Bonds admitted he used the clear (steroids) but claimed he thought it was flaxseed and just used it because he trainer gave it to him and said it was flaxseed oil.

Even if one believes Bonds' take on this is honest and correct, how then can he make claims he never used steroids. Even excluding from this equation the above clear incident, he admitted he 'just used what his trainer handed him' and, at least once, mistook flaxseed oil for steroids. This would also obviously mean that Bonds, if honestly mistaken about the flaxseed, used a trainer who was willing and able to slip him steroids under the name of a harmless name.

If Bonds' take is accurate (ignorant, just used the stuff his trainer gave him, didn't know the flaxseed oil was steroids) and Bonds is honest and of normal intelligence, he would have no other choice to deduce that, "It is possible that I unknowingly used steroids other times too."

When Bonds' says "I never took steroids in my career" (excluding the clear incident), that statement is logically against his own take on the flaxseed story. The two don't connect logically.

In a logics class 101, a professor would tell a student that the statements "I don't know what I was using" and 'I never took substance X" are illogical, and one of them has to be wrong.