It’d be a good day to tip our hats to a real athlete.
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To Lex and Mark, this is a wonderful mix. Thank you.
Grumpy
Couldn’t have said it better.
There were a lot of Hank-haters when he broke the record too. I was about 25 feet towards center when the ball smacked the signage last night, and dropped dead in the left-field stands for the tie. I’m glad I got to see it. For the record, I wasn’t the wiseass who threw a ball back on the field, but I wish I’d thought of it. The gentleman in question had an ear-to-ear grin as the cops hustled him out. At first, I thought he was the guy with the ball! lmao
Baseball is a game played by men, not giants, and not even Padres if you’re Cameron standing on third, or slightly off third. But Mike had some shining moments, a triple, and a sacrifice to advance Giles in the 12th, then Greene hit a very nice single into center to cap the night and bring Giles home.
Outside the stadium, speculators were buying ticket stubs, and the industrious were hawking “Bonds Sucks” T’s at $5 a throw. I got two. A good time was had by all.
I don’t know if Barry is a bum, or if Hank and the Bambino would be juicing too if they played today, but I’m sure the Ty Cobb would.
Watching Barry endure the endless taunts from the stands, “Baaarrrryyyy”, “Baaaallllcohhhh”. It made me thing of The Great Ty Cobb, the most hated man in baseball. If you’ve never seen Tommy Lee Jones in “Cobb”, do yourself a favor. When the Tigers came to town, the seats were full, because he lived by the dictum, “If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’.” Others may decry competitiveness gone wild, but they all come to watch.
“…I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind…Games played with the ball…stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion…” Thomas Jefferson 1785. ME 5:85, Papers 8:407
Glad you said it, Lex! I’ve been sayin’ it for a while now. We were lucky enough to be present when Hank hit #500, when anyone could sit just about anywhere in Atlanta Stadium – not many people interested in the Braves in those days.
Also watched Joe Namath play against the Chargers in SD back in the “good ol’ days”.
Go Alex!
I hope I live long enough to see Bonds not only an * , but also #2.
My brother has season tickets for the Pad’s. Never misses a homegame. Back in the 80′s I had ‘em for 2 seasons. Though I loved BB and still can’t help but watch the World Series, the game died for me back in 90′s with the strike and was buried with the steroids..Sorta like NBA BB with all the strange looking dudes, tattoos and bad behavior was lost to me. NFL’s going the same way. Lucky I got fishing and hunting.
Casca, you’ve got it slightly wrong about Cobb. Of course he was a man eveyone loved to hate, then & now, but I don’t think he would have used drugs to enhance himself. Maybe PCP..he was just plain cracker mean.
BTW, T. Jefferson may have dispensed some good advice but wasn’t he sort of an effette lawyer who spent a lot o’time in France?
b2
“The freedom of opinion and the reasonable maintenance of it is not a crime and ought not to occasion injury.” –Thomas Jefferson
Hank was a gentleman and an outstanding athlete. A finer example of a truly admirable personality is hard to come by…. unless you look in the US military.
But Hank gets my vote for a fine, upstanding young Man and a great ballplayer.
Subsunk
The good news is Bonds won’t keep it long. A-Rod is only 31………..
I’ve hated Bonds since he left the Pirates in a lurch back in 1990…….
Juxtapose the two HoF inductees last week. Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn. I stopped being a fan after Cally Cal left the game. Bonds just proved my point. And for those that say he didn’t cheat because there wasn’t a rule against anabolic steroids, aren’t they illegal? I mean, murder and cocaine aren’t in the rule book, but they are illegal. If someone shot another on the field, it wouldn’t be called cheating, it would be a crime. I believe that is why the Feds are after them. Do I have that right?
Bonds has always denied “knowingly” using steroids or performance enhancing drugs of any kind. It was all the fault of his trainer, see. Or that massage he got that one time.
How he developed from a lean but powerful hit and run player at Pittsburgh into the musclebound slugger he is today, is, alas, a mystery to him.
*Cough*
Wow. Those comparison pics are amazing. I knew from my own memory that he looked different, but that side-by-side is startling.
As far as A-rod, the sad thing is that he reportedly has not always been clean. The hope among those who knew him “back when” is that at least he is clean now and will continue to be as he goes after the record…
I recently had an interesting conversation with someone in a position to know about the sport, and he said that he believed that 95% of professional baseball players “had” to use steroids at some point in their careers in order to be competitive. This was said in the context of high schoolers using steroids (I assumed it was in reference to the different rates of physical maturity in teenage years and early adulthood (up to mid-twenties).
Every baseball record since World War II is a product of the performance-enhancing drug era.
I speak not of steroids – a latecomer to the performance-enhancement party – but of amphetamines. They were introduced to the game after the war and were a far bigger part of the culture for far longer than steroids – amphetamines have been a controlled substance since 1970, but baseball outlawed them only in 2006.
I think Bonds took steroids. I think Aaron took amphetamines. I don’t see a whole lot of difference.
It makes me glad I cover college sports, where the only scandal you have to worry about much is good old-fashioned bribery.
Great thread… good points by most…even my new best friend Casca is an unusual position for him of being, as the Brits say, “spot on” re the Tommy Lee Jones/Ty Cobb movie…well worth a look…ahhh baseball as it used to be.
Suffering the effects of terminal ennui…I find it impossible to get interested let alone exercised over this Barry Bonds matter… so I won’t…except to say that a desturbing number of professional athletes are morphing into side-show freaks… and I refuse to watch.
Finally… all this baseball talk has reminded me of a uber-lame groaner of a joke that was all the rage in my junior high school locker room in the mid-fifties…it goes like this…
” I use to be a Dogger fan…but when they moved to Los Angeles I became an… Athletic supporter…” da da dum…great peals of laughter followed…very different and innocent times indeed.
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