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New Nay, I say.
BTW Sammy Sosa has back-to-back-to-back 60 HR seasons - but the ball ain't juiced, naw....nevertheless a real record for a stand-up guy.

No...Sosa hit 60 in '98 (66), '99 (63), and '01 (61 and counting). In each of those three seasons, he didn't even win the NL home run title, much less the MLB home run title (barring 10+ home runs this weekend). And that's despite having more home runs in all three years (assuming one more this weekend) than had ever been hit previously in MLB history.

He apparently took 2000 off from hitting home runs. He only hit 50 last year -- but won the NL home run title. Go figure.
The Seattle Mariners have 114 wins, tying the 1998 Yankees for the most wins in history. Amazing. Who needs A-Rod and Junior?

1906 Chicago Cubs. 116-36. They've tied the AL mark, but not the MLB mark yet. Still a few games to go.
-YendorMike

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
New Nay part II
Barry has broken most if not all of Bobby Bond's records and he (Bobby) was being interviewed during the SF/SP series recently talking about how proud he was that Barry was breaking his records.

Barry hasn't disgraced his father but honored him in the best way possible; going on to exceed his achievements
Jay O'Connor

"Going places unmapped
to do things unplanned
to people unsuspecting"
New Like him or not..
..he's still one of the top ten players to ever have played the game.

Look at the stats.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
New Yup!
Like him? I don't like him or dislike him...I don't even know him. I respect him as a player because he is one of the greats.

Jay O'Connor

"Going places unmapped
to do things unplanned
to people unsuspecting"
New Even His Teammates Can't Stand Him
The name of the game in baseball is *hustle* - everyone who has ever played has this drilled into his head constantly. Bonds does not hustle. Ever. Being "a great" is a hell of a lot more than numbers. True, his talent is incredible, but IMO that's canceled by his lousy attitude.

OTOH I can completely respect someone like Ty Cobb, a nasty SOB, or Pete Rose, who bet on games. They played 110% all the time, in every game. Rose would sprint to 1st after a walk. It was exhilirating to watch him play.

New Never seen...
Bonds tank a play. Never. The problem with talent like his is that it makes everything he does look easy.

Watch Robby Alomar sometime. Then watch another 2nd baseman. Alomar can make plays on balls that no other 2nd baseman could even reach...but he does it so easily it looks like slow motion.

Sure Bonds is an arrogant SOB. Almost every marquis athlete in his generation is an arrogant SOB. It seems to come with the territory in modern sport.

You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson

[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
New No
Fernando Vina.

Chipper Jones.

Brian Jordan.

Derek Jeter.

David Justice.

Need I say more?
New Wondering re such 'talents'.. how they come about.
Idiot savant? Yes, that's an extreme case, but - is it possible that many sports luminaries ('hero' can never again be applied to such dilettantes, we see - that much changed on 9/11) -- are simply deficient in the normal social sensibilities? One-note Johnnys (or Barrys) and *this* happens to be that one note?

Remember, lotsa folks in school never made even the mediocre cliques, were always awkward. Many, later of course - found out how utterly mindless, ovine and silly were those cliques: and got some moxie on their own..

But some never quite get the hang of homo-sap duplicity, glad-handing and other deceptions. Is that enough reason to maybe give the Bonds of the world (and the Dimaggios?) a bit of a break - even some sympathy, perhaps?




Ashton
New Stand Corrected
Wasn't that the last Cubs team to win a series? :)

(1945? 1938? can't remember)

BTW see these stats - no, the ball ain't juiced, not at all...

[link|http://espn.go.com/mlb/profiles/stats/batting/4344.html|Sosa] [link|http://espn.go.com/mlb/profiles/stats/batting/4305.html|Junior] [link|http://espn.go.com/mlb/profiles/stats/batting/3866.html|Big Mac] [link|http://espn.go.com/mlb/profiles/stats/batting/3918.html|Bonds]
New Cubs came close in '84
And if they'd had lights for nighttime baseball, they might have made it. Instead, they had to play 3 games in San Diego because they didn't have lights. They'd have done better than the Padres in that year's world series, IMO. (laughing) but of course anyone can have opinions on any sports event.
Who knows how empty the sky is
In the place of a fallen tower.
Who knows how quiet it is in the home
Where a son has not returned.

-- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
New scratching head about cubs
1906 Chicago Cubs. 116-36. They've tied the AL mark, but not the MLB mark yet. Still a few games to go.

I thought the Cubs had 120 wins, but I must have mis-remembered that as finishing 20 games ahead of the Giants.

Still, as impressive as the Mariners fared in this now-highpaying-sport, with a damn lowpaying team, the Cubs' 152-game record remains better.
Who knows how empty the sky is
In the place of a fallen tower.
Who knows how quiet it is in the home
Where a son has not returned.

-- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
     Barry Bonds breaks record! - (Silverlock) - (15)
         And... - (Fearless Freep)
         Go Bonds Go - (wharris2) - (13)
             Re: Go Bonds Go - (Fearless Freep)
             You Missed It - (deSitter) - (11)
                 Nay, I say. - (Yendor) - (10)
                     Nay part II - (Fearless Freep) - (6)
                         Like him or not.. - (bepatient) - (5)
                             Yup! - (Fearless Freep) - (4)
                                 Even His Teammates Can't Stand Him - (deSitter) - (3)
                                     Never seen... - (bepatient) - (2)
                                         No - (deSitter)
                                         Wondering re such 'talents'.. how they come about. - (Ashton)
                     Stand Corrected - (deSitter) - (1)
                         Cubs came close in '84 - (wharris2)
                     scratching head about cubs - (wharris2)

Sorry. I don't see the benefit for me in that arrangement.
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