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Originally Posted by cat's meow
Bonds has accomplished a number of things, I agree. I cannot deny it. I guess I just have been very unattracted as a fan to watch Bonds and follow him. That is just me though. He is not a Cardinal or with the Red Sox, and has played a number of years with a team who is the arch rival of the Dodgers; I grew up a Dodger fan in the Don Sutton, Steve Garvey, Manny Mota days.
SN, my gripe is with baseball itself and always will be. As I have said before, Mountain Landis cleaned up the game after the Black Sox problem about 90 years ago but in turn it gave baseball a pass card for many years to come. They work by thier own rules and have kept themselves seperate and in denial about steriod use. "US(?)...USE SERIODS(?)....YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING..." They have allowed it themselves. Bonds is still guilty in this but he is only one of many who have done this as per BB looking the other way.
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Hi Cat,
They ignored it because the fans loved it. Remember the whole Sosa and McGwire thing in 1998? That was huge for baseball....and they needed that as they were still stinging from the 1994 strike.
Bonds can have the record. It won't be his for long I don't think.....Pujols or ARod have a good chance of breaking it. Like I said, from my geeky statistics point of view, Bonds really screws things up. I've attached a graph that compares him and Ruth year-by-year based on Bill Jame's win shares statistic.
- 20 win shares is a solid season
- 30 win shares is an all-star and possible MVP season
- 40 win shares is an awesome season...one for the books
- 50 win shares is a historical season and is only been accomplished a handful of times (Speaker - 1, Ruth - 3, Wagner - 1, Mantle - 1, Bonds - 2)
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