Sure Barry Bonds' career is nothing to laugh about. But where can we draw the line and say,"hey, this record is a joke now."?
Bonds hitting 756 is the craze right now, but some would agree that the record of home run king is tainted. The investigation of Bonds' use use of performance enhancing drugs in recent years is by no means anything new to the game of baseball, however the reaction of Bonds 'not knowing' he was being administered these substances, is almost a cliche response to allegations of this nature. deny deny deny, amirite? Nobody in the spotlight, who has(had) adoring fans, wants to be accused of something like this, but come on...nobody's career could ever be the same.
On NBC this morning, BoB Costas was interviewed to discuss whether or not he felt the record had been tainted. He started the conversation by bringing up the investigation into Bonds' use of steroids. He said, that while it is not a criminal case by any means, that IF IT WERE, the evidence was already there. Whether Bonds denies it or not is irrelevant. The damage has been done so to speak.
Personally, I don't care that Barry Bonds has broken this record. It's not special anymore. Same reason I didn't care about Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa's season home run chase. Tainted careers. Performance enhancing drugs, not to mention Sosa's corked bats. Who knows how long that was going on. If it was Ken Griffey Jr. chasing the all-time home run record this season...well, that would be a different story. But Griffey's honest career was riddled with injury throughout the late 90's into this decade. Yet he still ranks 6 among the alltime HR hitters.
So, all in all, I guess this is not as historic as ESPN makes it out to be every night.
Be sure to write Alex Rodriguez a small note telling him you can't wait for him to shatter this record in the upcoming years.
-These are merely my own opinions, and therefore should be regarded as the absolute truth-
1 comment:
My position is a home run is a home run. At first I was on your side, but then I watched the game and realized that he was doing something pretty amazing. A home run is a home run now a days. Back in the day the fences were so much further back that steroids would have mattered, but now its like high school kids can hit balls out of the park. I don't know I just don't care about how strong a guy is in baseball, because sometimes it just doesn't matter. Look at that fat ass David Wells... tell me he's an "athlete." If it were a sport like power lifting, or some sort of power track and field thing then I might feel stronger against roids. To me something like a corked bat is more of a big deal. But this is the day and age of drugs, and anti depressants and Viagra and all sorts of things to help humans overcome things that they really should be overcoming naturally, so take that as it may.
What we really need to do, is change some of the rules, like the DH... maybe people wouldn't take steroids if they actually had to be able to move in the field! And on a side note, having pitchers bat in one league and not another is absurd.
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