LETS JUST SAY THAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bonds plays for 1 more year, shatters the record at 781.... retires. 5 yrs pass and despite heavy criticizm and controversy.... he's easily inducted into the hall of fame 1ST BALLOT no question about it.
5 more years pass in 2017 he writes and releases a TELL-ALL book, admitting he used steroids, took performance enhancing drugs, how he's gay and finaly comes out and managed to keep it a secret for so many years... LMAO hey you never know
how would you feel then? would it even matter to you? would you care? is it a moot point because irrevocably A-ROD will MASACRE his record anyway......
2007-07-31 05:34:32 · 11 answers · asked by Have a Cigar 6 in Sports ➔ Baseball
no it wouldn't matter to me at all. bonds is a hall of famer with or without the record.
and a-rod will not break the hr record. i know it's the popular thing to root for because of the overall hatred of bonds. sportswriters would love it because a-rod has proven so much more accessible than bonds.
but realistic statistics don't favor a-rod. most of the numbers i've seen projecting a-rod to break bonds' eventual record assume that his hr average will stay steady over then next 7 years or so. but historical stats suggest that hr average declines significantly over time. they usually peak around the age of 27-30 and then start a steady downward trend. this does not help a-rod's chances.
secondly, a-rod plays for money. he doesn't seem to care much about winning, just getting paid. case in point his signing with texas a few years ago. he left an excellent seattle team for an overwhelmingly crappy texas team just for a big pay day. he put up some big numbers but it's because he was still young.
the yankees are unlikely to pony up the kind of cash he's asking for. and a-rod will likely land his big pay day in a smaller market where he can again toil in obscurity but this time without youth on his side.
my guess is he'll finish in the high 600s to low 700s.
2007-07-31 05:43:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't particularly care for Bonds, wish he didn't get the record but...
1- 756 or 781, doesn't really matter.
2- He's a hall of famer no matter what
3- he's admitted to using steroids already
4- he comes out gay. What are you worried he'll steal your boyfriend?
A-Rod has a chance to get up there but only if he stays healthy and keeps hitting like he does now.
2007-07-31 09:37:22 · answer #2 · answered by spalffy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bonds was a HOFer before the steroid allegations came around, so he should be in the HOF. The problem I have with it is that he's (allegedly) taking steroids to transform himself from a great player into the greatest player of all time. I think that it wouldn't matter much to me, because 1) we don't know how many of those HR's were because of steroids, 2) we don't know the extent of steroid use in baseball during this era, and 3) ARod will have destroyed this record by then.
2007-07-31 05:44:54 · answer #3 · answered by dlatona7 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he is convicted of using, there is no doubt it would bring down a great career. What most people don't understand is that you still have to hit the ball, whether your juicing or not. I played baseball through college and for all these people that don't know how hard it is to hit a fastball, let alone curve, slider, sinker, split, etc...ITS HARD. The only difference is instead of a warning track flyball, his go over the fence. All of those people are completely niave to think he is the only one using, even at a small college where I played, there was steroid use. I can't imagine what its like in professional sports.
2007-07-31 05:51:50 · answer #4 · answered by Rick L 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would not care. If people think that Barry is the only one who took roids, when it was cool to take them and Baseball was not testing for them, then they are a fool. He is still a great player. He just happened to be breaking a coveted record at the time where Baseball decided to clean up their act.
2007-07-31 06:51:19 · answer #5 · answered by cuddleyleo2003 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He already admitted it in front of Congress so why would he need to write a book? It's common knowledge he took "Cream" and "Clear"!
If he liked men that would his business. It wouldn't bother me one bit. It might bother his teammates if they were on the receiving end of a butt slap but otherwise no big deal.
Barry will go down in history as a great player. I really don't care about A-Rod. Records are made to be broken.
2007-07-31 05:42:04 · answer #6 · answered by Veritas et Aequitas () 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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2016-10-19 08:15:13 · answer #7 · answered by roca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in 5 years barry bonds head will explode from steroids so ur question makes no sense
2007-07-31 05:43:39 · answer #8 · answered by nick 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They probably wont. I don't even see why they like bonds so much he is just a drain on the team.
2007-07-31 05:42:36 · answer #9 · answered by Cowboy87 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he should retire at the end of this year and get out like Mark McWire did
2007-07-31 05:38:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋