Comments on: Barry Bonds Is No Hero

Bob Schieffer Says The Soon-To-Be Home Run King Would Need To Do A Lot More To Be A Hero

[rational_1]

I am so sick of all this Barry Bonds mess, and I am shocked that Bob Schieffer has added his name to the list of people who are villifying Bonds. I am not a Bonds fan, but I do ascribe to the "innocent until proven guilty" basis.
Posted by Misspp at 09:48 PM : Jul 22, 2007

Just do a Google image search of Bonds and compare his picture from a decade or so ago with what he looks like today and you'll be a bit less sure of the "innocent until proven guilty" assertion. I don't know how he did it but somehow he managed to get the roids to grow his head as well as the rest of him. He could have gone down as one of the greatest hitters (but not the greatest!) in the game, but instead history will deservedly be far less kind to him.

[misspp-2009]

I am so sick of all this Barry Bonds mess, and I am shocked that Bob Schieffer has added his name to the list of people who are villifying Bonds. I am not a Bonds fan, but I do ascribe to the "innocent until proven guilty" basis.

But my main concern is the hypocritical way folks are making Hank Aaron into this grand and glorious person whose record Bonds has no right to break. These same folks AND Hank Aaron are forgetting that Hank Aaron was treated worse than Barry Bonds is being treated.

Hank Aaron received hate mail and death threats from bigots who did not want a black man to break Babe Ruth's record. Now, he's acting immature and petulant about Bonds breaking his record. I have lost all respect for him.

[dovestar]

Hank Aaron never aspired to break Babe Ruth's all time home run record. He said he just kept on playing and hitting and he looked up one day and there it was.
Real heroes don't aspire to be heroes. They stick to their principles and wish people wouldn't make such a fuss over them.
Barry Bonds is a zero--not a hero. The reason he is under such a cloud is the existence of very compelling evidence that he took steroids to enhance his performance. That's cheating in anyone's book. He may have hit that many home runs, but how many grimy faced kids has he signed autographs for? There is a story about the coach of the San Antonio Spurs who signed autographs one afternoon at a local bookstore. A young fan raced to the spot only to find he was too late. The coach had gotten into his car and saw the boy. The coach got out of his car and met the boy on the street, spent time with him, and bought him a Coke and signed his basketball. You can havbe all the Barry Bonds autographs you want. I'll take this guy's.

[cyberus-2009]

**I don't remember all this mess when Hank Aaron took the record, so why Bonds? It's no doubt the good old USA will vilify blacks, when have they not. The man has earned this, it's a shame people try to dirty what he's earned. It seems all the photo's I see of him he just looks disgusted in general. I hope he gets over that and takes the record just to spite everyone. I'm white and it makes me sick to see the way white people act when blacks take white records. This world would be tons better off if we were just all color blind.
Posted by ZeeZedZee at 09:13 PM : Jul 22, 2007**

The wasn't all this mess when Hank did it ... because Hank did it the hard way, time, sweat and skill ... not the easy way with a needle full of insta-muscle

[zeezedzee]

I don't remember all this mess when Hank Aaron took the record, so why Bonds? It's no doubt the good old USA will vilify blacks, when have they not. The man has earned this, it's a shame people try to dirty what he's earned. It seems all the photo's I see of him he just looks disgusted in general. I hope he gets over that and takes the record just to spite everyone. I'm white and it makes me sick to see the way white people act when blacks take white records. This world would be tons better off if we were just all color blind.

[rushlimpdrug]

Bob Schieffer,
If you can't get the Paris Hilton interview maybe you can interview barry buns.
bob, your writing is so lame and trivially bland.
So you proved you can't write about entertainment, make pointless commentary about sports, could you tackle cooking next?
Here are some words you can use in your next commentary:
blah, blah, ha, ha, ha, blah, blah, icky, icky, yack, yackety, yack, and ain't I so smart for saying nothing in a whole commentary.

[thgdriver]

Well, personally, I feel Mark Maguire and Barry Bonds, among a lot of others took or are now taking enhancers, that said, In this country you are innocent till proven guilty. So we'll see what transpires in the future.

On the other hand Bob Schieffer is entitled to his opinion and so am I, and so are you!!

I gotta go.

[premo68]

thgdriver well if they gave Roger Maris a asterisk next to his name then that was wrong. But I still stand by my point, that people like Aaron and Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson and yes even Bonds by some segment of this population are villified because they are black.

[thgdriver]

premo68 When you know what you are talking about get back to me. If you refer to record books over 15 years ago you will see the asterisk. You could not comprehend what I posted at 4:16 today, how could you be expected to comprehend what went on years ago?

[premo68]

thgdriver......That is correct and Elvis is a role model (supposely ).....Good point thgdriver and that's all I am saying there need to be one set of rules for everyone. We don't need selective villification.