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- As baseball takes it's yearly break to play a somewhat meaningless game, there was so much mutual respect between Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez that we almost think that Barry and A-Rod should get a room. With Bonds on the verge of Hank Aaron’s record of 755 career home runs, Bonds said that when Rodriguez breaks his in the future, he'll be there. “And when you do, you don’t have to worry about calling me. I’ll call you. If you want me there, I’ll be there. I’ll be there in a heartbeat.” Bonds, who is 42, is only four homers away from tying Aaron and Rodriguez is at 494 career home runs at the age of 31. What did A-Rod say about Barry? “I love Barry. I’m one of his biggest fans. If you think about his work on the field over the last 20 years, it’s been second to none, maybe Babe Ruth or the all-time greats."
- Speaking of A-Rod, Shaun Powell thinks that it's no longer a question of whether Rodriguez is good enough for the Yankees next year, but a question whether the Yankees are good enough for A-Rod. Rodriguez can opt-out of the final years of his contract, making him a free agent next year. Powell's reasoning? The Yankees are no longer contenders, but a team that's headed in the wrong direction. A team that has less of a chance to win a title than the Indians, Tigers, or Brewers.
- Down in the Minor Leagues, Lastings Milledge is on the mend from his strained ligaments and could return the the bigs after the All-Star break. Milledge is lighting it up with AA Binghamton, hitting .435, with three home runs, a double, a triple and eight RBI. L Millz, who last made news when rapping, is heading to the Cyclones to keep playing through the All-Star break. Milledge's recovery couldn't come sooner for the Mets, who have three outfielders on the DL.
Photo of Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez at All-Star Game festivities by AP/Jeff Chiu
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If A-Rod keeps bouncing around, he won't have much of a legacy with any one team. He ought to stay with the Yanks.
On another note, I was not feeling the suit he was wearing. Maybe he was wearing it in honor of "The Bronx Is Burning"?? That is my only explanation.
Powell's reasoning? The Yankees are no longer contenders, but a team that's headed in the wrong direction.
Powell's an idiot. Look at the farm system. Look at the contracts coming of the books soon. The Yanks won't be a team heading in the so-called wrong direction for long. Furthermore, they aren't even that bad this year. Their Runs Scored-Runs Allowed indicate a team that should be a lot better. If they had a competent manager, they'd be five or six games behind the Red Sox. Powell's just another know-nothing sportswriter.
BTW I love this picture.
The Yankees have no pitching. It's that simple. And they are just as likely to get shut out as score a dozen runs. Inconsistency. That's why their record is subpar.
If A-Rod had signed with the Red Sox he would have a Series ring already. Karma's a bitch.
He actually can opt out of the last three years of the contract - the contract lasts through the 2010 season.
Photo caption contest!
He'll be playing for S.F. next year...
Sweet Jesus, I hate Barry Bonds. Easily one of the biggest douchebags in the history of baseball.
I've actually started forcing myself to like A-Rod in the likelihood that he will break Bonds' home run record and hopefully do it without cheating.
Did I mention Barry Bonds is a douchebag?
looking at these two schmucks makes me yearn for a piece on the fish of McCovey Cove.--I feel that might have a bit more to offer than these two egomaniacal children.
Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter of his generation, and one of the greatest hitters of all time. Not to mention, that at the age of 42, his AB's are as still as exciting as even the best young hitters (when the opponents actually dare to pitch to him).
Is Bonds a douchebag? I don't know, having never met the guy personally. Has anyone who commented here actually met and spoken with Barry Bonds? Are most successful athletes douchebags? Possibly. Should we even care whether or not we'd like to sit down and have a beer with these guys? No. It's what they do on the field - and Bonds does it as well as any hitter in baseball history.
And cheating? William Rhoden of the NY Times put it best recently when he wrote "Baseball historians know better, and the critics had better get a clearer view. This is a monumental mountain that Bonds has climbed; if all it took was a pill, the mountain would have been climbed by hundreds."
If you are truly a fan of baseball, you owe it to yourself to savor these final moments of Barry Bonds' career.
Bonds is not on the verge of 755 career home runs, steroids (allegedly) is. In real baseball fans eyes Bonds has zero career home runs and the all time single season mark is held by Roger Maris.
If Bud Selig, who before this whole mess was notorious for stealing the Seattle Pilots and sleazing them into the Milwaukee Brewers, actually cared about baseball (his prior actions prove otherwise) he would have banned Bonds. Others have been banished for less. If only we could turn back time and have made George W. Bush baseball commish, the world would be such a better place for everyone.
drewo you and Bill Rhoden are living in a dream world. If you want to believe in Santa and the Easter Bunny as well so be it..
The rest of us will wait for this douchebag to finally get busted and banned from MLB once and for all
Toby #11: "allegedly" is correct. Some people still think that there are "allegedly" WMD's in Iraq.
Verifiable is that no one has hit as many home runs, with such authority, for so long, as Barry Bonds. If all it "allegedly" took was a pill, or a cream, Bonds would not be the only player approaching these records.
Steroids are "allegedly" for bulking up, and putting on muscle mass (see most of the NFL - talk about steroid use...), while success in baseball is achieved through optimum hand-eye coordination and reaction time. Seem to me that exessive muscle mass would slow these processes down.
And "real" baseball fans of Maris' era put an asterisk next to his HR numbers - seems a lot of baseball fans have a hard time accepting change.
I have no problem with change, as long as it is done properly and without any bit of cheating. I would maintain that once the person starts cheating their work should be expunged.
Now can someone please explain Mr. Bonds' head. It seems to have doubled in size size since his rookie year. Something is not right with that.
Now if they can only catch the SOB betting on baseball, which seems to be the only major sin worthy of banishment in baseball.
No one can seriously tell me that the physical change in Bonds by the use of steroids would have NOT altered his performance. Time Magazine has a nice pictorial http://www.time.com/barrybonds
History has told us that athletes bodies tend to decline in their mid-30s. Bonds instead went suspiciously super-human and hit 73 home runs at the age of 36!?!?!? And 46 home runs at the age of 40!
Being a Met fan, I could less what A-Rod does . With that said, If any team pays him any sum of money they get what they deserve out of him . He's making Hundreds of millions of dollars ! Why If Ur A-Rod would you entertain the notion of leaving the Yanks ? That makes no sense whatsoever ! I guess $100,000,000 just ain't what it used to be anymore ! Posted by; "Still Not Amused"