…that when Aaron hit #715 the entire nation was watching. Yet I just happen to glance at an RSS feed mentioning that Barry Bonds hit #756 last night and find out that way. The commissioner of baseball wasn’t even there. Has baseball become that much less popular? Is Bonds that much less popular? Was it a race issue when Aaron took the record? Was it not as big of news as I think it was?
Baseball is actualy more popular than ever, tv and advertising contracts are getting more lucrative, and attendance is at an all time high. This is why you have a guy like ARod with a monster contract thinking about opting out so he can go for more money. Why make 25 mil a year, when you can make 30-35 :gotme:
Actually the pitching was quite close, the mound use to be higher, so in the old days pitchers always threw down hill. I believe back then they pitched in the 90mph area as they do today. I may be wrong though !
selig openly didn’t want to “be part of this”… way to fucking ignore the largest controversy in the sport since Pete Rose.
Bonds is an asshole, based on his personal approach to people in general. Not too mention the cream & the clear crap. wether he juiced or not, he’s an asshole.
Steroids tell-all has taken a huge chunk out of the sports image… but prior to that it was already failing. The homerun race of a few years ago was the highest peak it’d seen in a while.
The game is fucking boring as shit to watch, right out there with golf. Even playing it can become tedious after a few innings.
Juice or not, its pretty shitty that this record will always have a “…?” attached to it.
It is very smart for Selig to not get involved. He called after he broke the record and talked on the phone. No matter what Selig did, support or not, he would have been scrutinized on a much higher level then he did now.
Quote of the day: “Bonds may have broken the record, but Aaron will always be the record holder.” Said by one of the past commissioners.
