3rd Place Icon
In case you've been out and I mean outter space out. You know by now that Barry Bonds is one homerun bash short of surpassing who Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star/ESPN called "segregations best all time homerun hitter," *George Ruth aka Babe Ruth. Bonds at 713 homeruns has been the subject and poster boy of what's wrong with baseball. As a matter of fact, Bonds according to some is the number one problem of baseball. Why? because purists believe that Bonds soiled the game by using growth hormones or steroids. In some baseball fans eyes Bonds is the biggest cheat known to man and according to a list of America's most hated athletes, Bonds is number 2, and coming real shortly Bonds will be number 2 again. This time as the man with the second most homeruns in the history of baseball.
This is where the problems lays, for some. The problem is that the man, Bonds is passing is the most revered ball player of all time. Problem is that this player and his lifelong generations upon generation of fans has to face the breaking of his homerun mark of 714. According to these fans, when Ruth hit his bombs, the game was right. The game was pure.
I've argued and heard enough sportstalk radio to know that a certain number of folks don't want to see 714 passed again. Well like Whitlock, I'm going to celebrate it, because like him I don't care what an athlete puts in his body...Hell if he dies from it..oh well, better him than me. I don't care about a record that is supposed to be tell all and measuring stick for what is right. Personally, I believe Josh Gibson has the most home runs in baseball history, not Ruth. I believe Aaron is in second place and Bonds is about to be in third.
Do you think baseball will honor that list? probably not, because in its mind, the soon to be in third Ruth is the icon that defines baseball. Has to be..a certain group of people don't recognize the leader (Aaron) of this most revered group of homerun hitters.
Last week baseball said that they won't recognize Bonds feat of passing Ruth...Okay then, when Bonds does take over second, The mention of Ruth and his measley knock of 714 should be like him....
Dead.
This is where the problems lays, for some. The problem is that the man, Bonds is passing is the most revered ball player of all time. Problem is that this player and his lifelong generations upon generation of fans has to face the breaking of his homerun mark of 714. According to these fans, when Ruth hit his bombs, the game was right. The game was pure.
I've argued and heard enough sportstalk radio to know that a certain number of folks don't want to see 714 passed again. Well like Whitlock, I'm going to celebrate it, because like him I don't care what an athlete puts in his body...Hell if he dies from it..oh well, better him than me. I don't care about a record that is supposed to be tell all and measuring stick for what is right. Personally, I believe Josh Gibson has the most home runs in baseball history, not Ruth. I believe Aaron is in second place and Bonds is about to be in third.
Do you think baseball will honor that list? probably not, because in its mind, the soon to be in third Ruth is the icon that defines baseball. Has to be..a certain group of people don't recognize the leader (Aaron) of this most revered group of homerun hitters.
Last week baseball said that they won't recognize Bonds feat of passing Ruth...Okay then, when Bonds does take over second, The mention of Ruth and his measley knock of 714 should be like him....
Dead.
posted by J.C. "Fanz23" Lewis, Jr | 3:57 PM
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