I can’t vote. My answer is to sell it, which isn’t an option.
If Cooperstown wants a corrupted record’s ball so much, they can buy it. I don’t expect that they would however, so I don’t expect my answer to upset the baseball purists.
likwidshoe - 11:09pm on 09/17/2007
Alright, I’ll vote. Just bestow it. Might as well not mark up such a historical item.
They can display the ball right next to a Black Sox jersey, taking it’s place in Cooperstown’s display of baseball’s hall of shame.
likwidshoe - 11:09pm on 09/17/2007
No asterisk for Bonds!
Ok, lemme give a little education in baseball to those who don’t get it with all this ‘asterisk’ bs.
1. Pretty much every player in the Major Leagues has the strength to hit a home run IF they hit the ball AT the right time, IN the right spot.
2. Steroids DO NOT help you to hit the ball AT the right time, IN the right spot.
Barry Bonds deserves this untarnished record because of his skill at hitting the baseball, period.
Last point, other than heresay by people with LOTS to gain by implicating Bonds, has it ever been proven with any testing whatsoever that Bonds actually TOOK steroids?
No.
Discussion over, crybabies vanquished.
Bill Mitchell - 04:09am on 09/18/2007
Paint it up like an asterisk, stick a syringe in it’s backside and display it a Cooperstown.
Bill M, to your point #2..I don’t know if roids help you hit the ball or not. I do know that:
A) they do help you recover quicker to injury thus allowing you to compete in more games, more so the older you get.
B) He’s a good enough player that he’d have broken the record with no juice. He just got greedy.
markm - 06:09am on 09/18/2007
Bill Mitchell, so… you’re saying (if) Bonds did the steroids route he did it for what ... simply the sake of controversy? Yep, nothing like doing drugs for absolutely no reason, pff…
Anna - 07:09am on 09/18/2007
Pump it full of steriods until it’s a vollyball. Then Pop it!
imagine - 07:09am on 09/18/2007
Bill let me give you a little education about steroids. They allow you to get the bat around quicker and at a faster speed. That means you can wait longer on a pitch and hit it harder. What would normally be a pop fly is now a home run.
Lestat - 07:09am on 09/18/2007
1. Pretty much every player in the Major Leagues has the strength to hit a home run IF they hit the ball AT the right time, IN the right spot.
2. Steroids DO NOT help you to hit the ball AT the right time, IN the right spot.
So there’s no reason why they take steroids then. And there’s no reason why Bonds (and other players) started hitting a LOT more home runs after he mysteriously bulked up.
The Whistler - 07:09am on 09/18/2007
Can someone please point me to the documented evidence of Barry Bonds EVER failing a steroid test?
Right, you can’t. It is all based upon heresay by those with gain to be made by implicating him.
Lots of people swore Lance Armstrong took steroids too but he never tested positive did he?
So do we look at all his wins with an “asterisk”?
Face it, until they test positive, you HAVE NO PROOF - PERIOD - END OF DISCUSSION.
Think about this - if Barry was as juiced as everyone says, don’t you think he would have tested positive just once? I mean, lost of athletes test positive, but never Barry, not one time.
How come?
Also, I know people that take steroids - athletes. They are BIG. Bonds looks in shape but he is hulking Michelin Man.
yeah, I go with B only because there is no D
I can’t vote. My answer is to sell it, which isn’t an option.
If Cooperstown wants a corrupted record’s ball so much, they can buy it. I don’t expect that they would however, so I don’t expect my answer to upset the baseball purists.
Alright, I’ll vote. Just bestow it. Might as well not mark up such a historical item.
They can display the ball right next to a Black Sox jersey, taking it’s place in Cooperstown’s display of baseball’s hall of shame.
No asterisk for Bonds!
Ok, lemme give a little education in baseball to those who don’t get it with all this ‘asterisk’ bs.
1. Pretty much every player in the Major Leagues has the strength to hit a home run IF they hit the ball AT the right time, IN the right spot.
2. Steroids DO NOT help you to hit the ball AT the right time, IN the right spot.
Barry Bonds deserves this untarnished record because of his skill at hitting the baseball, period.
Last point, other than heresay by people with LOTS to gain by implicating Bonds, has it ever been proven with any testing whatsoever that Bonds actually TOOK steroids?
No.
Discussion over, crybabies vanquished.
Paint it up like an asterisk, stick a syringe in it’s backside and display it a Cooperstown.
Bill M, to your point #2..I don’t know if roids help you hit the ball or not. I do know that:
A) they do help you recover quicker to injury thus allowing you to compete in more games, more so the older you get.
B) He’s a good enough player that he’d have broken the record with no juice. He just got greedy.
Bill Mitchell, so… you’re saying (if) Bonds did the steroids route he did it for what ... simply the sake of controversy? Yep, nothing like doing drugs for absolutely no reason, pff…
Pump it full of steriods until it’s a vollyball. Then Pop it!
Bill let me give you a little education about steroids. They allow you to get the bat around quicker and at a faster speed. That means you can wait longer on a pitch and hit it harder. What would normally be a pop fly is now a home run.
So there’s no reason why they take steroids then. And there’s no reason why Bonds (and other players) started hitting a LOT more home runs after he mysteriously bulked up.
Can someone please point me to the documented evidence of Barry Bonds EVER failing a steroid test?
Right, you can’t. It is all based upon heresay by those with gain to be made by implicating him.
Lots of people swore Lance Armstrong took steroids too but he never tested positive did he?
So do we look at all his wins with an “asterisk”?
Face it, until they test positive, you HAVE NO PROOF - PERIOD - END OF DISCUSSION.
Think about this - if Barry was as juiced as everyone says, don’t you think he would have tested positive just once? I mean, lost of athletes test positive, but never Barry, not one time.
How come?
Also, I know people that take steroids - athletes. They are BIG. Bonds looks in shape but he is hulking Michelin Man.
Either prove it with a positive test, or shut up.