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  • Bonds nos.

    [Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
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    Wesley_Powell burped:

    Aaron's Best Season

    Was .327 batting average, .410 on base percentage, and .669 slugging..............Bonds was .362 batting, .609 on base, and .812 slugging.

    Yeah, except that Aaron EARNED his numbers with muscles, dedication and grit - as opposed to Bonds, who copped his with steroid -assistance and hyper-strength from 'roids. In other words, the fucker stole 'em.

    Look at the statistics again, that I referenced earlier. Look at the large standard deviation and the coefficient of determination (especially after 1997) which shows nearly 76% of Bonds homers cannot be accounted for by "randomness" - or to put a point on it "natural talent". In other words the fucker was USING!

    The two sports writers who did their recent story ("Let the statistics Tell Their Story') on Bonds homers, showed in detail how the std and CV, CD point to Bonds' use of steroids in amping his numbers. He doesn't deserve ANY benefit of the doubt, even for stolen bases.

    He's a lying, cheating imp and not fit to wipe Aaron's butt.

    And NO - I am not now nor have I ever been a "white racist" as that moron "Trasher" tries to make out. I have always worshipped the ground Hank Aaron walked on, from the time he arrived at County Stadium in Milwaukee. Unlike those Atlantan KKK'er douche-bags who made the most threats against this honorable man.

    The day Bonds seizes Henry Aaron's record is the say the baseball cosmos will weep. And all the little ratfuckers that applaud it - will show how much like Bonds, Michael Vick, etc. they are.

  • Bonds nos.

    [Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
    [Read more letters about this article: Here]

    Wesley_Powell burped:

    Aaron's Best Season

    Was .327 batting average, .410 on base percentage, and .669 slugging..............Bonds was .362 batting, .609 on base, and .812 slugging.

    Yeah, except that Aaron EARNED his numbers with muscles, dedication and grit - as opposed to Bonds, who copped his with steroid -assistance and hyper-strength from 'roids. In other words, the fucker stole 'em.

    Look at the statistics again, that I referenced earlier. Look at the large standard deviation and the coefficient of determination (especially after 1997) which shows nearly 76% of Bonds homers cannot be accounted for by "randomness" - or to put a point on it "natural talent". In other words the fucker was USING!

    The two sports writers who did their recent story ("Let the statistics Tell Their Story') on Bonds homers, showed in detail how the std and CV, CD point to Bonds' use of steroids in amping his numbers. He doesn't deserve ANY benefit of the doubt, even for stolen bases.

    He's a lying, cheating imp and not fit to wipe Aaron's butt.

    And NO - I am not now nor have I ever been a "white racist" as that moron "Trasher" tries to make out. I have always worshipped the ground Hank Aaron walked on, from the time he arrived at County Stadium in Milwaukee. Unlike those Atlantan KKK'er douche-bags who made the most threats against this honorable man.

    The day Bonds seizes Henry Aaron's record is the say the baseball cosmos will weep. And all the little ratfuckers that applaud it - will show how much like Bonds, Michael Vick, etc. they are.

  • MLK etc.

    [Read the article: When Barry passes Hank]
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    "Trasher" regurgitated:

    ..you post like so many whites in denial that claim they loved MLK now but called him a commie slug and a jungle bunny..

    I HAVE never lived in the South, except for 3 years in New Orleans when I was going to school (university). While there I attended at least TWO NAACP meetings, and went on one march. I have NEVER used the epithet "jungle bunny" - and if you also must know (not that it's your business) my wife is black.

    Martin Luther King was also one of my heroes, as was Aaron, and James Baldwin is one of my favorite authors. I liked Malcolm X for the righteous and moral ZEAL and principles he attempted to instill in his brothers - as opposed to allowing them to descend into the pit of pimping, drugs and gangs.

    In other words, the "pit" that Michael Vick and Bonds now inhabit.

    I always applaud and revere decent, highly moral-principled black men. I want there to be more such exemplars to the kids in the ghettoes, not fewer. I want these exemplars to be of the MLK and Henry Aaron mold, not that of the Michael Vicks or Barry Bonds.

    If you still don't get that, then there's nothing more I can say and I feel sorry for you. And if you think the only decent black men have to be "Massah's mutts" - then you are truly a forlorn and deluded fool.