It was something like 615, based on his pre-steroids average of 35 homers and normal bell curve decline.

I’ll have to be the lone disagreer on this one.

Congratulations to Barry Bonds. He’s still hitting home runs today and he would have hit them then even if he wasn’t juiced.

People don’t like Bonds because he was a jerk. I still say that the steroids didn’t help him much. He may have thought they did. But they didn’t.

Now as far as Lyle Alzado and other football players are concerned, thats a different story.

Glen, I think there really isn’t a difference between Bonds and Alzado. Yeah, he’s a jerk. There are a lot of people who are jerks, but if he’s enhancing on the steroids, I just think it dirties the record.
I’m sure he’d be hitting homeruns at this age, but would he be breaking records?

a buddy of mine and i thought it would be 100% badass if the entire league made a pact to walk Bonds for the entire season, until he retires. guess that’s not going to happen.

I wrote this on Crackers and my blog, and I’ll write it here, too.

To quote Woody Allen from Annie Hall,”Getting a laugh from someone who is high doesn’t count because they’re always laughing.”

I think you see the analogy.

To hell with Bonds. Let’s talk about the miracle Cubs.

And long live Hank’s record! (Which would have probably remained unbroken if he had been all juiced up)

[…] wrote of Barry Bonds hitting his 755th home run last night, tying Hammering Hank. The story is all over the Innertubes and television, but there […]

so what, we should have an Enhanced Hall of Fame and a Non-Enhanced Hall of Fame?

i find it deeply ironic the field where Bonds hit the magic tying number is the same field where two years ago fans hurled a giant syringe onto the field to show their disapproval of Bonds’ steroid habit. and saying he never ‘knowingly’ too the drugs is kinda like saying ‘i never inhaled’.

wonder how long the list of folks on the 755-plus list will be in another 30 years?

Joe, it’ll probably just be Barry and A-Rod. Nobody else seems to be durable enough to do it. Griffey won’t, Sosa won’t, Adam Dunn won’t… those guys are all too old/hurt/strike-outy. Prince Fielder, maybe, but with his body type he’ll be falling apart by 30.

Are we going to have to sing “Barry’s Little Helper” to the Stones Tune?
I think we should.

Somthing like…

What a drag it is getting old
“Baseball’s different today,”
I hear ev’ry player say
Sluggers need something to calm them down
And though Bond’s not really ill
There’s a little yellow pill
He goes running helter skelter with that slugger’s little helper
And it helps him on his way, round all the bases on game day

Joe, that is inspired. Absolutely inspired.

Also see Fragments from “Steroids!: The Musica1″ at McSweeney’s.