756*
I'm not a baseball fan, and I don't know much about it. But I do know that tonight Barry Bonds (of the San Francisco Giants) hit his 756th homerun to bypass the record held by baseball great, Hank Aaron.
But he cheated.
I don't see how a person can take any pleasure or get any credit when he cheats. Barry Bonds took steroids---let's be honest about this now, people---and so he cheated. It doesn't matter if he would've been able to beat the record anyway; it doesn't matter if the steroids weren't really a factor (why take them, then?). It doesn't matter: he cheated. Period. Hank Aaron made 755 on his own merit. Why should Bonds get to take the crown when he didn't earn it?
That's just an ignorant amateur's opinion.
*Oh, did I mention that he cheated?
posted by jay are at 10:46 PM
8 Comments:
I get the idea that you think he cheated. :) But I do agree that it just doesn't seem right. ec
4:01 PM, August 08, 2007
It is always traumatic when a hero's record is broken. I remembe back when Roger Marus broke Babe Ruth's single season home run record and their was not only the sadness of the question of fairness since modern baseball teams play more games in a season than they did in Ruth's day.
10:26 PM, August 08, 2007
Agreed. He cheated. From one amateur to another...
But who doesn't anymore in the wide world of sports?
7:54 PM, August 09, 2007
It must be weird to be one of the old school guys and see these new stars getting paid more money than anyone to bat a ball around and then pick daisies in the outfield. Some of them are even a little tubby, if you ask me, and for that kind of money they should all be required to have 6-pack abs... naturally, though.
8:49 PM, August 09, 2007
I think he may have cheated. What do you think? It seems that the only way to create a level playing filed in sport is to drop all the rules and let everyone cheat. Sounds fair to me.
2:35 AM, August 10, 2007
...since so many of them are anyway, yeah. might be the fairest thing. And it's like nick said, so many things are different---the length of the season, even---that it's hard to really compare new records with old ones.
12:08 PM, August 10, 2007
How about 2 leagues:
A steroid and any other substance you want to put in your body league and a clean and sober league?
By the way:
Sadaharu Oh played baseball in Japan and has 868 career home runs. This could technically be called the professional baseball all-time home run record.
4:58 PM, August 10, 2007
it was probably all that saki.
5:23 PM, August 10, 2007
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