Barry Bonds' 756th Home Run

[Vyse]

So you don't like winning, then.

Winning > like or disliking the players on your team. I hate Kobe Bryant, but if he helped the Lakers win, I wouldn't care -- and I didn't, when we did win. Who cares? Get over it.

[Triumph36]

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So you don't like winning, then.

Winning > like or disliking the players on your team. I hate Kobe Bryant, but if he helped the Lakers win, I wouldn't care -- and I didn't, when we did win. Who cares? Get over it.

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god you are a moron troll

sports is supposed to be fun - if the yankees got barry bonds for kyle farnsworth tomorrow i'd like it, but i wouldn't be ecstatic - i don't like barry bonds, and watching him play on my team would make it less fun for me.

YMMV.

[Vyse]

Yeah, I'm a troll because I disagree with your opinion. Yeah, nice one.

Where I come from, winning = fun. Losing = not fun. Players who help me win = fun. It's pretty worthless to get all personally emotional about the athletes as a person; I prefer to get all personally emotional about the athletes as an athlete.

[TalkingDonkey]

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Keep in mind many people thought Griffey would be the one to break Aaron's record.

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I understand that, I didn't say Arod was a favorite, I said he was probably a dog, but you don't think what happened to Griffey is LIKELY to happen to Arod do you? I mean, Griffey pretty obviously ran really bad, injury-wise. Arod probably won't go ten years without any injuries, but he also almost certainly won't miss as much time as Griffey has.

And like the previous poster said, even if Arod gets just as injured as Griffey, he will probably end up really close. Griffey's injury problems started in 2001, when he was about the same age Arod is now. He had 438 homers at that point. ARod already has 497. Griffey has still managed to hit 150 homers since his injuries started, and he might hit another 50 before he retires. If Arod only produces at the same level Griffey has been during the last 6 years, he will STILL end up with 700, maybe more. Griffey has played about 92 games/season since 2001. If Arod manages to get in 130, or 50% more, he should hit around 800 homers. If he manages to get lucky and avoid any injury, and play as long as Bonds has....well, we'll all be laughing about this silly little "Bonds being the Home Run King" thing.

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I think you're reading too far into what I'm saying. I know A-rod is at 498 now, but I'm merely saying it's still too early to crown him the next home run king for the ages.

[vhawk01]

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Keep in mind many people thought Griffey would be the one to break Aaron's record.

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I understand that, I didn't say Arod was a favorite, I said he was probably a dog, but you don't think what happened to Griffey is LIKELY to happen to Arod do you? I mean, Griffey pretty obviously ran really bad, injury-wise. Arod probably won't go ten years without any injuries, but he also almost certainly won't miss as much time as Griffey has.

And like the previous poster said, even if Arod gets just as injured as Griffey, he will probably end up really close. Griffey's injury problems started in 2001, when he was about the same age Arod is now. He had 438 homers at that point. ARod already has 497. Griffey has still managed to hit 150 homers since his injuries started, and he might hit another 50 before he retires. If Arod only produces at the same level Griffey has been during the last 6 years, he will STILL end up with 700, maybe more. Griffey has played about 92 games/season since 2001. If Arod manages to get in 130, or 50% more, he should hit around 800 homers. If he manages to get lucky and avoid any injury, and play as long as Bonds has....well, we'll all be laughing about this silly little "Bonds being the Home Run King" thing.

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I think you're reading too far into what I'm saying. I know A-rod is at 498 now, but I'm merely saying it's still too early to crown him the next home run king for the ages.

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I think everyone knows that. There is just a pretty good chance that he will be. And I was just trying to point out reasons why the Griffey comparison wasn't entirely fair (although still a reasonable admonition).

[cbloom]

I freaking love Bonds and think the hate is incredibly silly. His interviews are some of the most honest & funniest of any athlete in sports, kind of like Tysn without as much crazy. Who cares that he juiced? Pretty much every single slugger in baseball in the last 20 years has juiced.

Most of SF still loves him too.

[tuq]

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I freaking love Bonds and think the hate is incredibly silly. His interviews are some of the most honest & funniest of any athlete in sports, kind of like Tysn without as much crazy.

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Thread is about Barry Bonds. Not sure who you're writing about.

[TheNoodleMan]

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I freaking love Bonds and think the hate is incredibly silly. His interviews are some of the most honest & funniest of any athlete in sports, kind of like Tysn without as much crazy.

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Thread is about Barry Bonds. Not sure who you're writing about.

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More to the point, why would I want to watch a Tyson interview if it didn't have the crazy?

[Borgland]

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Keep in mind many people thought Griffey would be the one to break Aaron's record.

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I understand that, I didn't say Arod was a favorite, I said he was probably a dog, but you don't think what happened to Griffey is LIKELY to happen to Arod do you? I mean, Griffey pretty obviously ran really bad, injury-wise. Arod probably won't go ten years without any injuries, but he also almost certainly won't miss as much time as Griffey has.

And like the previous poster said, even if Arod gets just as injured as Griffey, he will probably end up really close. Griffey's injury problems started in 2001, when he was about the same age Arod is now. He had 438 homers at that point. ARod already has 497. Griffey has still managed to hit 150 homers since his injuries started, and he might hit another 50 before he retires. If Arod only produces at the same level Griffey has been during the last 6 years, he will STILL end up with 700, maybe more. Griffey has played about 92 games/season since 2001. If Arod manages to get in 130, or 50% more, he should hit around 800 homers. If he manages to get lucky and avoid any injury, and play as long as Bonds has....well, we'll all be laughing about this silly little "Bonds being the Home Run King" thing.

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Let's not forget that Bonds has a good chance of reaching 800 homeruns himself. He's not going to retire after hitting number 756. If/when he eventually plays for a American League team, where he can DH and not have to play defense, after this season and then play 2-3 more years of 20-30 homeruns per season gives him 810-820+.

[MyTurn2Raise]

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So you don't like winning, then.

Winning > like or disliking the players on your team. I hate Kobe Bryant, but if he helped the Lakers win, I wouldn't care -- and I didn't, when we did win. Who cares? Get over it.

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this is very false for people of character