Comments on: Barry Bonds Hits 755th Run, Tying Record

Controversial San Francisco Giants Slugger Equals Hank Aaron In Career Home Runs

[hypnotoad72]

Wow. Take some drugs and hit home runs! And be accepted!

Says much about today's society.

And if you think I'm racist, look up Hank Aaron. He didn't need to take performance enhancing drugs to build his career. And he had a lot more to struggle through, as in his day blacks were very badly treated indeed.

Barry Bonds is a cheat.

At, if nothing else, put a * symbol by his name in the record book to denote he took steroids. Mind you, as time goes by, that hall of fame book will eventually contain more *s than player names...

[mitywhity]

This is nowhere near the thrill of 715 for Aaron. Barry could have possibly eclipsed 715 without the "youth-serum" if he were allowed to hang around the league. But he would have not reached 755 - no way. Look at his waning numbers before the Sosa/McGwire days and notice his numbers after the spotlight shone on steroids. That's all that I need to see.

[hungry1968]

"Barry Bonds Hits 755th Run, Tying Record, San Francisco Giants Slugger Now Within One Hit Of Beating Hank Aaron's Career Record"


No - Bonds will NEVER break the record. He used artificial means to bulk himself up. Whether the substances were banned at the time or not, he should have known what he was doing was wrong.

[brianbwb-2009]

"When more and more "professional" athletes drop like flies due to their drug/steroid use, it will eventually send a message to everyone, in or out of the game, that steroids are not good for you. DUH!
Posted by USAyesterday"

I think not, most probably the message sent will be "no sacrifice is too great in the pursuit of the megabuck."

[cfin5]

Barry needs to start over drug free if he really wants to compete with Hank Aaron or Babe Ruth's record. Give me enough steriods and I could make a brick do that too!

[usayesterday]

LET EVERY PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE TAKE AS MANY STEROIDS/PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS AS THEY WANT!

But most of all, make it known that they take them.

That way, as 'Joe Shmoe' crosses 3rd base, he collapses and dies half way to home plate (with blood running out of his ears).

Then a father in the stands can point to the body of 'Joe Shmoe' and say to his son...


..."See Billy, this is what happens when you use steroids!"

When more and more "professional" athletes drop like flies due to their drug/steroid use, it will eventually send a message to everyone, in or out of the game, that steroids are not good for you. DUH!

[bobnjersey]

[Unlike Bonzo, Aaron was not only a gent and a class act, he was an athlete who didn't stoop to putting sh*t in his system to get ahead.]
[Posted by usatheway98 at 03:01 AM : Aug 05, 2007]

how do you know that aaron did what he did this way?

you KNOW that aaron was a gent ... class act ... and clean as a whistle.

you KNOW that bonds is an a^^hole ... cheats wherever he can ... and did steroids as the means.

somehow ... it's not really clear ... he's still hitting them over the fence ... is he still taking them?

[Renegade.Rivers]

Congrats to Barry on tying the record. No matter how he done it, he's played hard, and went through a lot to do it. Whether his record will be tarnished remains to be seen. I do believe that the reason he has been scrutinized is because of the people he associated with, but how many of us haven't been guilty of associating with some rather unsavory characters in our time here on earth, if by intent or accident. Whether he used body enhancing drugs is really a mute point, because at the time he was accused of doing it, there was no rules in baseball against using it. Shame on the baseball commission for that, not Barry. Look at both Mark McGuire, and Sammy Sosa there is questionable doubt as to whether either one of them did or didn't use some form of enhancing drugs. Yet, McGuire was denied entrance into the Hall of Fame, most because he didn't say the right things at a Congressional investigation.

Baseball is not the American sport it once was, anymore than boxing is, or wrestling for that matter, decades ago all were respected sports that had a much larger group of fans than they do now. It's all bright lights and show now, and lots of money is spent on just keeping baseball afloat.

Will Bonds be voted into the hall on the first vote, that remains to be seen. Does he deserve to be, did Mark McGuire deserve to be, those are questions the history writers will have to decide.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by usatheway98.

I don't know how old you are, but you might remember that Aron, on the way to breaking Ruth's record, endured the same taunts and detractions, the difference being they weren't being camouflaged behind unproven allegations of substance abuse.

You also fail to realize that many of us see right through the disguise.

[usatheway98]

oh, bonds boys, just pull the race card, right?

Don't forget it WAS HANK AARON'S RECORD. Unlike Bonzo, Aaron was not only a gent and a class act, he was an athlete who didn't stoop to putting sh*t in his system to get ahead.

Oh, I guess I forgot to mention that Hank Aaron is Black. But then again, color never mattered to me until real racists like Bonzo and Boy Obama - and their buddies Jackson, Farrocan, and Sharpton made it an issue.

Sorry, but many of us who do dislike Bondzo do so because he is an unqualified a^^hole. As for this monkey ever being inducted in the Hall of Fame, maybe 100-200 years after Pete Rose is, if even at all.