Bonds may miss 05 season.

[maveric]

http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/8316952

I hope so.

Hank Aaron earned that HR record without the benefit of steroids, during an era where pitching dominated. I would HATE to see a cheating little punk like Bonds take it away from a class-act like "Hammerin Hank".

[Richardo]

1. I'm conflicted.

He's a franchise keeper on my fantasy team. :cry: But such a jerk in real life.

[GreenArrow]

2. It's mean to say it

but I hope he is finished, period, and Aaron's record stays intact.

[maveric]

5. I hope so too. Aaron was amazing.

BTW he was also an Eagle Scout.

[gnofg]

10. for all that grew up in the fifties

Mays was better

[maveric]

11. They were close. Aaron had more RBI's, HRs and Hits than Mays.

Mays was more flamboyant than the reserved Aaron, and he played halk his career in NY.
But...if I had to choose one over the other for a dream team, I'd take Mays.

[JohnKleeb]

14. The shame about Aaron is how underrated he was in his career

[JohnKleeb]

13. Mays would have ended up with 700+ too if

it wasnt for the Korean war, he missed two seasons. Both Aaron and Mays were incredible.

[gnofg]

17. Aaron

had a longer career. His numbers had more to do with longevity. Willie was the better fielder(played Center), and is the only player to hit 50 Hrs. more than 10 years aprt. He won the player of the decade(vote on) in the sixties. Aaron was not better in the fifties. He was better in the seventies. Aaron never hit 50 hrs in a season. If you reemeber the all star games of the sixties Willie was the star. If he didn't have to play at Cadlestick he would have hit 800

[JohnKleeb]

22. Yes I know but theres no denying that Aaron was grat as well

and I know that Willie was great, hes one of my favorite playesr of all time, its just I think Aaron was good as well. Yes if Mays played anywhere else, I think youre right and if that war didnt happen, he would have been the one who broke the record. I think Wille only went over 50 twice. He was amazing, in the top ten of all time.

[gnofg]

23. correct

Aaron was a terrific ballplayer. There were a couple I thought his equal. Frank Robinson and Roberto Clemente. Willie was just the best. What gets to me is that Willie is kind of forgotten and all the praise that now goes to Aaron. I actaully think the greatest of all time is Ruth Willie is second and believe it or not Dimaggio is way up there. What is amazing about Dimaggio is that he only struck out 369 times in his career. Here is a guy who was a great HR hitter and never struck out. He was also an awesome fielder. The 56 game hit streak is the alltime record and will never be broken. I also love Pete Rose

[AngryAmish]

24. I would take either Aaron or Mays on my squad

I am such a fence straddler.

[JohnKleeb]

25. I like Ted Williams and Stan Musial as well as DiMaggio

Yeah in the Sporting News book of all time best, Ruth was number 1 and Mays 2, what people dont realize about Ruth is that he was not a one trick Pony and he hit for average too, very well I might add, his lifetime average is higher than Tony Gwynn's by 4 points and Gwynn was amazing.

[gnofg]

27. I grew

up in a baseball family and my father had a minor league contract after the war. He entertained the troops playing baseball during the War. We used to go to the clubhouse and I have a ball signed by Stan Musial, Kenny Boyer and Bob Gibson to me and my brother. We were in the cardianl Clubhouse on Stan Musial night in NY. I also have 3 Joe Dimaggio balls from the forties, a Jackie Robinson ball and a Ted Williams ball. These are team balls of the teams from the forties.

[JohnKleeb]

28. Neat

My mom's dad has told me that his brother actually had a shot but he hurt his arm or something but I grew up on nothing but baseball, even though it saddens me to see the game in many ways decline.

[gnofg]

30. agreed.

I maintain the game peaked in the sixties. It was the first time all 3 dominant racial groups played-whites, blacks and hispanics. These guys grew up when only one sport provided a real living. Because of this Baseball got all the athletes and there were only 20 teams. That is my argument and I'm sticking to it. By the way my dad is from St.Louis and baseball is the game there. I asked him if he played against Yogi Berra and Joe Garagioa and he was a couple of years older. He said they came from "Deigo" hill

[JohnKleeb]

33. Thats right, Yogi was from St. Louis

I read somewhere that he originally wanted to be a Cardinal not a Yankee. I agree about the 60's, it was a diverse time.

[RedCloud]

34. Do you know Roy Siever?

That jerk tried to date my mom before she met my future dad and maybe I never would have existed!!!

He was the catcher for the Browns, I believe.

[gnofg]

35. My father

was to be the travel secretary for the Browns in 1954 for Bill Veeck. Thety went to Baltimore and it never happened.

[sasquatch]

3. He's coming down from his steroid high

His body is now trying to adjust from not having the steroid juice to help them in athletic pursuits.

[Demit]

4. I never liked him from the moment he dissed Wrigley Field for not having

lights. Heresy!

[Redstone]

6. Good. At least we won't have to listen to him shooting off

his big, fat, steroid-enhanced mouth.

Redstone

[Langis]

7. What happened exactly?

My work blocks sports sites...

[maveric]

9. You work for Evil Evil people!

"Leaning his head on a crutch and repeatedly saying he was tired, Barry Bonds said he might miss the entire season following his latest knee surgery."

snip

"You wanted me to jump off a bridge, I finally did," Bonds said. "You finally brought me and my family down. ... So now go pick a different person."

snip

The seven-time NL MVP, who returned to spring camp Tuesday following last week's surgery, made his remarks while sitting at a picnic table outside the Giants' clubhouse with his 15-year-old son, Nikolai, at his side.

[Langis]

12. he had it coming

What an ass... I don't think he knows how to take responsibility.

[KitchenWitch]

15. I love how he blames the media...

The media, in part, *MADE* him. And I love the example he is setting for his son, blame race, blame the media, blame everyone, but do not take responsibility for your own behavior.

[demosincebirth]

20. That sounds like a republican.

[StopTheMorans]

8. couldn't happen to a better asshole

and he has the gall to cry about what it does to his kids. hey asshole, don't take fucking steroids, and the media will leave your kids alone. have a nice extended spring training :hi:

[frylock]

16. the consensus on romey today..

was that Bonds takes the year off, comes back a lot smaller, and blames it on the fact that he had to change his workout routine due to the injury.

[CubsFan1982]

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[demosincebirth]

19. I think he's having second thoughts about facing...

hostile baseball fans and the press throughout the U.S. for the rest of his playing career.

I think he'll hang 'em up, but not make it official until this steroid thing cools down...if it ever will.

[underpants]

21. If I didn't know any better it would sound like a 'roid crash

because I would assume that anyone of that stature who might do that sort of thing would have the best medical advice and not have the same thing happen to past ;-) HR record breakers who suddenly came down with minor annoying injuries ("thigh" "Wrist" "Ankle") that didn't really require treatment but would cause them to take a couple of days off here and there.

If I didn't know any better.

[MrSlayer]

26. Good, hopefully he never comes back.

What a creep and a cheater to boot.

[Scout1071]

29. I'm throwin' a big ol' BS flag on this one. Anybody else thinks this

stinks? How convenient for MLB that Bonds may not be able to play at all this year. Maybe I'm cynical, but my BS detector is going off on this one.

[robertpaulsen]

31. Boo-hoo! We won't have the Dick Nixon of baseball to kick around anymore.

I think the comparison is appropriate. Both men are extremely arrogant, self-absorbed, paranoid pricks who refuse to take responsibility for their own mistakes.

My fear is that, like Nixon, he will make a comeback after pretending to leave the arena. My hope is that he falls flat on his face.

[mac56]

32. That's the comparison that came to mind for me too.

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