Official Barry Bonds Countdown Thread

[SirArthur]

Wow! Number 739 yesterday was a moonshot, 457 feets worth to dead central.

I've been a lifelong S.F Giants fan, grew up in the Bay area, and my family had season tickets into the 90's.

I've seen live, or on TV, or heard on the radio probably 500 of Bonds home runs.

Bonds was voted best player of the 90's, before the whole steroid thing. He was one of the top 5 players of all time before his home barrage during the 21st century.

He has what, nearly 10 gold gloves? People forget he was once one of the best defensive outfielders ever.

He could cut off a would be double, pivot & throw to second better than any left fielder ever.
Not to mention the 500/500 thing, or 700/500 thing.

There's only a few others at 300/300 to put that in perspective.

It's horrible he's the poster child for steroids and gets most of the flak.
Palmeiro got caught red handed, tested positive and lied about it. He's gone now.
Sosa was super juiced, you don't hear much talk about that. His interpreter at those hearings was a joke.
McGwire is gone now, so obv. he gets no flak anymore so Bonds is left to take it all.

Bonds was a home run hitter before he bulked up, he was a 40/40 guy in 1996, he hit 46 homers in his MVP year of 1993.

Yes, "skinny" Bonds hit all those homers in the pre bulk up years.

If not for the nearly 800 walks he had from 2001-2004, and missing essentially the entire year in 2005, he would have well over 800 home runs at this juncture.

Talk of Bonds not being in the Hall, is a complete joke especially since they let anyone in these days. Bonds should have his own Hall of Fame.

If he's an [censored] off the field, oh well, I admire his Godly baseball skills, and that alone. How he interacts with random people away from the b-ball field makes little difference.
He's paid to play baseball to the best of his ability, not be a nice guy to the media or random people on the streets.

He's indicated he wants to reach 3000 hits, he's about 150 away right now. I hope he comes back next season & reaches 3000 hits, and aims for 800 homers next season.

If he stays healthy I wouldn't put it past him to reach those numbers.

So look out all you Bonds haters...

[THAY3R]

Also, this is baseball people.

Getting along with teammates isn't a necessity like it is in real team sports.

[bottomset]

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Bond is a prick. If you don't mind that and want to appreciate his game despite it

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is he [censored] your mother/sister?

he hates the media, the media hates him, he's an [censored], the media are [censored]

why does that [censored] matter ... sit back and watch the greatest player you will ever see play, and change the [censored] channel when its an interview/post-game etc

[DrewDevil]

The pro-Bonds camp keeps throwing up irrelevant red herrings. There's no disputing that Bonds is one of the greatest players ever and that he's not the only steroid-taking ass hole in baseball.

All I said was that because he's the biggest a-hole I've ever seen, that I'm rooting against him to break Aaron's record.

Now some of you have said I don't get the whole picture because of the media, or because I don't know him personally, or whatever. But no one's given any evidence that Bonds isn't really a colossal prick.

Someone give me ONE piece of evidence that he's not a giant a-hole and ONE reason I should be rooting for him. The fact that he loves his kids and that he's really good at baseball don't qualify.

[THAY3R]

[wisehandpoker]

Just as an indicator of just how sick Bonds was in his stretch, if ARod goes 0/4 today, his OPS will be lower than Bonds' for the entire 2004 season. Sorry for the hijack.

[THAY3R]

Also,

There have only been 13 seasons(since 1900) of a player having a higher than .500 OBP. Besides Bonds, the last players to do that were Ted Williams and the Mick in 1957.

Bonds has 4 of those 13 seasons, including the 2 best.

Just think about that for a second, not getting out more often than getting out in baseball.

[SirArthur]

It was insane when he had all those walks and shattered Ruths walks records.
He was routinely being walked with first base occupied, or a nobody on 2 out situation he was being int'ed.

In 2004 he had 232 walks in 147 games. I believe he had more walks than some entire teams did. Not sure on that though.

I'll never forget that game in the late 90's where Showalter (managing the D-backs) intentionally walked him with the bases loaded up 3 runs in the 9th inning.

I doubt this has ever happened in the modern era of baseball, except to Bonds.

Brent Mayne followed with a line out to right field to end the game, Giants losing by two.

[Jack of Arcades]

It happened to Bill Nicholson in 1994m and Nap Lajoie in 1901.

[By-Tor]

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Wow! Number 739 yesterday was a moonshot, 457 feets worth to dead central.

I've been a lifelong S.F Giants fan, grew up in the Bay area, and my family had season tickets into the 90's.

I've seen live, or on TV, or heard on the radio probably 500 of Bonds home runs.

Bonds was voted best player of the 90's, before the whole steroid thing. He was one of the top 5 players of all time before his home barrage during the 21st century.

He has what, nearly 10 gold gloves? People forget he was once one of the best defensive outfielders ever.

He could cut off a would be double, pivot & throw to second better than any left fielder ever.
Not to mention the 500/500 thing, or 700/500 thing.

There's only a few others at 300/300 to put that in perspective.

It's horrible he's the poster child for steroids and gets most of the flak.
Palmeiro got caught red handed, tested positive and lied about it. He's gone now.
Sosa was super juiced, you don't hear much talk about that. His interpreter at those hearings was a joke.
McGwire is gone now, so obv. he gets no flak anymore so Bonds is left to take it all.

Bonds was a home run hitter before he bulked up, he was a 40/40 guy in 1996, he hit 46 homers in his MVP year of 1993.

Yes, "skinny" Bonds hit all those homers in the pre bulk up years.

If not for the nearly 800 walks he had from 2001-2004, and missing essentially the entire year in 2005, he would have well over 800 home runs at this juncture.

Talk of Bonds not being in the Hall, is a complete joke especially since they let anyone in these days. Bonds should have his own Hall of Fame.

If he's an [censored] off the field, oh well, I admire his Godly baseball skills, and that alone. How he interacts with random people away from the b-ball field makes little difference.
He's paid to play baseball to the best of his ability, not be a nice guy to the media or random people on the streets.

He's indicated he wants to reach 3000 hits, he's about 150 away right now. I hope he comes back next season & reaches 3000 hits, and aims for 800 homers next season.

If he stays healthy I wouldn't put it past him to reach those numbers.

So look out all you Bonds haters...

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