I haven’t said much on Barry Bonds, because quite frankly, I’m tired of hearing about him. Balco & Steroids aside, I think he’s a talented baseball player. Even before recently, he had a boatload of home runs without the cloud of steroids. He won a ton of gold gloves, and has a ton of stolen bases. He’s a talent – there’s no doubt about it.
Today I ran across a cool article by Ben Kabak on how he thinks that Aaron’s HR record is safe from Bonds, due to the two years Aaron spent as a DH at the end of his career in Milwaukee for the Brewers. It talks about how Bonds is not the player or even the hitter he was recently, and that he might have a hard time playing that much to get enough hits for HR to get to Aaron. Course, I think if he’s close, he can just go to some AL team and DH for as long as he needs to get the home runs. It’ll probably be the Yankees, unfortunately. :(
I enjoyed this article a lot, go check it out.
Joe, I think that he will smash the record. Not because he is my favorite player, but because the season he hit 73 he started slower than this. If you saw him in Spring Training he hit 4 home runs in 20 at bats. Plus the “slow start” is also because they have been rained out of 3 games this season so far.
no way dude, slow start or not…he’s old! old people diminish over time and now with this distracting cloud of investigation and steroids…there’s no way he’ll break it
P.S. wow, i thought only his mom and many mistresses were fans of barry…let me guess, you don’t think he took steroids either right? ha