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SAN FRANCISCO - Finally, Barry Bonds is the home run king.

Bonds hit a blast to center field off Washington Nationals starter Mike Bascik on Tuesday, earning his 756th career home run to nudge ahead of Hank Aaron for the all-time record.

GonzoStyle Wrote:I never understood that, how people base opinion on someone based on how they think they are, yet they dont even know them. Especially when basing a personal opinion on someone whose job description doesnt even entail being a "nice guy". The man is a baseball player, who gives a shit if he's a nice guy? Dislike him cause you think he tained the record by juicing, dislike him because he plays for the giants and you're a dodger fan, but to dislike him cause he's "not a nice guy" boo hoo. His job is to hit a baseball and catch a baseball and he does it as well as anyone and better than 99% of the men who have played the game over the last 100+ years. It's one of the main gripes I have today with this society so hell bent on being involved in every aspect of celebrities lives, naturally it's the celebs faults who have opened up their lives with all these reality shows and have given everyone the feeling that they actually know these people now cause they watch them on tv for 30 minutes a week. Out of 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week and 365 days in a year, can you really know someone after 22 minutes plus commercials? It's the same retarded reason a lot of people voted for Bush the first time around "he seems like a guy you can have a beer with"... who gives a fuck? So bonds is pompus and arrogant, wouldnt you be if you were quite possibly the greatest baseball player to ever play the game and only comparable to people like Ruth, Mays & Aaron? That's like a boxer being compared with Ali & Robinson, yeah you'd have a bit of an ego too. Plus it is also the fact that this guy is scrutinized 24/7 and how friendly would you be having to answer the same questions, day in and day out? How many times a day do you get annoyed at work when someone says or asks you something dumb? Now multiply that by a thousand and put it on a repetitive loop every day of your life. Sure I wont weep for Bonds because he is a multi millionare whose immortal fame comes from playing a game where he hits a ball with a stick but I cant and wont deny the fact he is without a doubt of of the greatest athletes of all time and of course he juiced but of all the guys juicing in all the years past, how many have hit 757 home runs and excelled for as long as he has? So maybe he would have only had 600 or 650 or passed only mays but you can also factor in a dozen other factors into it, expansion, weaker pitching, better nutrition, greater understanding of physiology, etc etc. from the days of aaron and especially ruth. So Maris hit 61 in more games than ruth, so bonds hit against weaker pitching, each generation is gonna have more tools available to them, steroids is just taboo but its not like the man just takes steroids and chills till he has to play. Anyone here would pretty much have a breakdown 10 minutes into one of his training regiments, so he juices, so lets put a ban on gatorade and make them drink water if you really wanna level the playing field, Ruth didnt have gatorade. Mainly tho just get over this whole thing of having to like someone and acting as if you know these people cause you watch sportscenter.

Keyser Soze Wrote:I agree pretty much with everything gonzo said (cause im a sheep, or shep....is shep singular for sheep?)

I actually dig barry cause he doesn't give a fuck what you think about him.He's a tremendous athlete who may not have broken the record without the benefit of lengthening his career with steroids but was a first ballot famer if he never put a single substance in his body. He was a great player before his head grew to the size of a watermelon.

Steroids will not improve your hand/eye coordination, in fact I believe the armor that Bonds wears on his elbow gives Barry more of an unfair advantage over other players than any drug could. The apparatus he wears allows him to release his front arm on the same plane during every swing. It also allows him to explode through the strike zone, by locking his arm and creating a fulcrum, and making his hands move quicker than other hitters who do not have the benefit of this device.

Barry gets less hittable pitches, and still manages to hit home runs at an obscene rate. He's an exceptional hitter that steroids plays no role in. Steroids may have helped some balls go further, and allowed his career to go further, but his armor is the most unfair advantage Barry has ever had.