Letters to the Editor
droogoy
Published Letters: 589 Editor's Choice: 9
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The 'pont'
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kstone expostulated:
When it comes to Bonds, you certainly are a bitter old fool, but your whiteness and possible senility is besides the point.
Of course it's beside the point. The point being the standard deviation in his HR seasonal averages, and the coefficient of determination arising therefrom (actually from the variance) which discloses a LOW probability that Bonds earned those HRs by his natural talents. So, when it comes to Bonds' underlhing stats YOU are the fool, whether young or old- since if these numbers aren't referenced you are in a fool's paradise. But I guess a fool's paradise is easier than inhabiting reality for some.
"Bitter"? Sure, I guess I am. Just as I am bitter Al Gore and John Kerry were deprived of rightful presidencies because a lie and a cheat stole their rspective elections, in 2000 and 2004. Just as Bonds is about to steal Aaron's rightful record.
I am always "bitter" when bad guys prevails over good guys, as they add up to more nails in the world's coffin.
It is a pity more people aren't.
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Now you drag Aaron down?
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wes_Powell babbled:
In Aaron's era. He needs to take a polygraph
Horse shit. Aaron was one of the cleanest players to ever play the game, didn't even SMOKE! Don't invent horse manure like that because your "hero" -cheat Bonds is under suspicion. Aaron is on a totally different plane and beyond reproach. Bonds is a turd, a living one.
Now, how many other alter-egos or "aka"s are out there, besides "Thrasher", "Kstone" etc. Or are you all part of the same team to protect Bonds? His homies, maybe?
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Oh please
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wesley_Powell trolled:
But the trainers in his day handed out little "pep pills" like candy.
SO WHAT???? That doesn't mean HE took any of it! The fact is Henry was a workaholic. He practiced - batting, fielding- 3-5 hrs. each day in spring training. He developed his skills further after breaking his ankle in a game in Milw. in 1954. Citing what some ambiguous "trainers" did in a day then imputing Aaron would have done it is god-awful reasoning. It's like saying marijuana was common in the 60s so everyone smoked it. Newsflash! Not all of us did. Some got our highs by going on long distance hikes, or swimming in fresh water streams.
If you want to have a little pretend world of angels and devils that your choice.
Yadda, yadda ----whatever. No one is living in any pretend "world" with "angels"- but believe it or not there really DO exist humans, including sports stars - who aren't all thugs, crooks pimps and druggies. Aaron was one. Whether you believe that or not, I personally don't give a flying fuck.
Trolls are trolls wherever they show up - even at salon.com
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Bonds and Aaron
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]bobr 900 wrote:
Bonds Will NEVER...
...equal the great Hank Aaron. Bonds did it on steroids and Hank did it on no steroids and on all guts.
Bingo! And he did it - as he closed to Ruth's record- in the face of outright hate and thousands of death threats per day. According to a retrospective story today, Aaron received 3,000 letters per day as he closed on Ruth's record, and most were death threats. Bonds, in the same place, would have been crying for his Mama and begged his Mgr. to sit out games in the cities where the threats came from. Aaron, replete with guts and gusto - faced every one head on.
As I noted earlier, Bonds is not fit to clean Aaron's old cleats. No matter what what he does, he will never be recalled fondly and respected like Aaron has. Because no matter he has the HR record, he still can't fill Aaron's mighty shoes.
Bonds is a jive turkey and cheating, lying wimp compared to Henry Aaron. He doesn't even merit being mentioned in the same breath.
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Record
[Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anonymous wrote:
Has droogy been paying attention? In every stadium but in S.F. people angrily "BOO" when Bonds is up to bat. This has been going on for the past few years. Whether or not you hate the guy, his consistent, calm demeanor at bat says a lot. Most of you ranters out there would have folded long ago. Get a life. This is only a baseball record.
NO, it's the most HALLOWED record in all of sports. It is, to me as former HS baseball player, the pinnacle of sporting achievement - and now it stands to be forever sullied by a cheating scoundrel with the ethics of a termite.
Comparing the "boos" Bonds has received in other stadiums (as well he should, because these fans are serious and puristslike me) to the DEATH THREATS Aaron received is daft and disingenuous. Aaron not only had to have special security at all games in Atlanta, but ALSO FBI to help protect his family because of the nature of the threats. Bonds has had need of NO FBI or other special protection.
And NO, I do not "hate" Bonds as a person. I can't because I don't know him. I hate what he has DONE and what he STANDS for: UNEARNED achievement, just like I detest Bush's unearned achievement of the presidency- and why I call him an "occupant" not a president. The same way I will call Barry Bonds the HR record*** holder.
The great Henry Aaron who suffered so many indignities in his life and really WORKED his ass off to get where he did, doesn't deserve this. To have a cherished record seized by a vagabond and renegade cheat, liar. The only consolation is that if and when it happens, ALL Bonds will have is a magic number behind his name. He will NEVER have the adulation, respect of the majority of baseball fans.
To us, Henry will remain a role model for our kids forever, and an exemplar of hard work and moral -ethical clarity. Bonds will remain in a similar category to Michael Vick, Pete Rose, and lesser vermin.