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Posted on 08-04-2007 at 07:04am
Does Bonds Needs An Asterisk?
Filed Under (Baseball) by Newscoma on 08-04-2007

Squirrel Queen isn’t a fan of Barry Bonds. She remember seeing Hammerin’ Hank hit his 755th home run live as a child, and she believes that Bonds is not telling the truth about using a little help.

As a Cardinals fan, she’s even rooting for a Yankee to surpass Bonds.

I do believe there should be an asterisk next to his name. I do believe Bud Selig should be there when Bonds finally swats a shot over the fence. Selig helped this steroid issue stagnate and then boil over into the mess we have to day.

I do believe he had Hall of Fame credentials before he joined the Roid Brigade, but I didn’t like him even then. I was rooting for Atlanta’s Sid Bream as he lumbered toward home in Game 7 of the 1992 NLCS, rooting against Bonds’ arm as he made the throw to try to nail him at home plate. Safe!

I do believe we should all root for A-Rod to hurry up and clobber about 300 home runs out of Yankee Stadium, unless Jose Canseco’s next book gives us evidence otherwise.

And I hate to root for a Yankee, no matter the reason.

Bonds could break the record anyday. But for some, it won’t be a glorious moment and may just be another stain on the game.

And for extra goodness, SQ has a picture from about a year ago of her perception of Bonds from last year.

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Comments

Ginger on 4 August, 2007 at 9:06 am #

I agree with SQ…
It isn’t fair to give Bonds, who has cheated not only the game, but nature as well, the same glory as Hank. He isn’t even in the same ballpark.

(pun intended)


Newscoma on 4 August, 2007 at 9:10 am #

I am not a fan of Bonds at all. But then again, Mark McGwire broke my heart and I loved him in the game.
I couldn’t eve keep up my faux fight up with Smiley (who chose the Cubs as his team this year).
Baseball, at its most pure, it wonderful.
But these days, I’m just not feeling it like I used to.
I might need a baseball intervention. :)


John Hutcheson on 4 August, 2007 at 9:15 am #

On these points, I am a curmudgeon. My single season home run record holder is Roger Maris with 61. I’m not sure they even knew what steroids were back then.


Newscoma on 4 August, 2007 at 9:20 am #

Good point, John.
And I’m a curmudgeon with you on this one.


nm on 4 August, 2007 at 11:22 am #

I was a fan of Bonds. I always said that he didn’t need to talk to reporters, didn’t need to be buddies with his teammates, didn’t need to make nice, just had to play baseball. I said that he was the best, and didn’t need to make excuses for who he was. But that was when it was him doing the hitting, not the steroids. I never minded his big ego; but when his neck started getting bigger too, well, he lost me.
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So I would say, yeah, asterisk that sucker. Except that technically, nothing has been proven. So I dunno.
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John, remember that Maris used drugs, too. They were all on speed back then, often without knowing it. The team doctors used to hand out ‘pep pills’ like there was no tomorrow. Granted, that won’t turn your long doubles into home runs, but it’ll give you more at bats.


John Hutcheson on 4 August, 2007 at 1:40 pm #

NM - It’s easy for me to forgive someone who unintentionally took greenies or whatever vs. what happened with the sluggers of the Steroid Era.

We don’t know for certain - I don’t think - that Maris actually was given speed, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.


nm on 4 August, 2007 at 1:48 pm #

Oh, I find them to be completely different levels of problems. And it’s completely different to have a team doctor give you a pill on a hot day, telling you it’s good for you, and to go looking for an edge over the other guys like steroids. But we don’t know how many extra at bats Maris had because the bennies kept him going, either.


Ron on 4 August, 2007 at 3:43 pm #

There was at no point in baseball’s history where people weren’t doing stimulants. That’s the problem with such a long season; it’ll wear out even the most ‘roided athlete.


Jilly on 4 August, 2007 at 6:39 pm #

The “shambino” needs an asterisk. This whole thing saddens me. I’m going to watch that new SciFi show on TV instead of listening to the game.


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