No Barry, don’t do it Barry, why do you have to be a self-centered cheater who seems out to destroy the great American pastime’s reputation? You’re to old to be hitting this good and your head is to big for you to claim to be steroid free, we know you lying.
The sad but simple truth is this. No matter how much everyone wishes Barry’s knee would give out one final time leaving him just short of the record, it’s not going to happen. Personally I would be willing to give up my XBOX360, my left elbow, and my pillow to prevent Bonds from breaking the record, but sadly sacrifices don’t really accomplish anything these days.
He is already eleven homerun’s deep into the season and only ten away from Hank Aaron’s precious record do the math. The only thing we can do is to sit back and marvel at his outstanding career.
Barry is second in all-time homeruns, first in walks, and first in MVP’s with seven. He is also the only Major Leaguer in history to hit at least five hundred homeruns and steal at least five hundred bases. An argument in Bond’s defense is no matter how many steroids’ you inject into your ass you need a phenomenal amount of skill to succeed like he has. Like it or not folks, Barry is good, really good.
In all reality it doesn’t matter whether Bond’s breaks the record or not, he will still go down in history as the most hated, disputed, and one of the best baseball players of all-time. So I suppose it would be better to say thanks, Thank you Barry for giving us sports fan’s something to fill up our otherwise dull lives with, we owe you one.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Roger Clemens: The Rocket is back
A good question to ask right now would be does Roger Clemens know he is almost as old as God? Apparently he doesn’t, and neither do the New York Yankees who just signed him to a Major League Record $28,000,000 to pitch half a season.
The Rocket has undoubtedly had an amazing career and is certainly one of the best pitchers in Baseball history; but is he worth the 1 million dollars he will be earning per start? I mean at this pace he mine as well pitch until he is seventy and earn an even more astounding astronomical amount of cash.
This is not to say he does not deserve the recognition he is receiving. After all, he has the more Cy Young Awards, 7, than anyone else ever to step onto the field; he is third on the all-time strikeout list with 4604; and eight on the all-time wins list with 348.
It may come as a surprise but all these amazing numbers is not why people watch Roger pitch. Fans just want to see if in fact some game mid-pitch his arm actually falls off and goes helicoptering towards home plate like the time he threw the bat at Mike Piazza.
You cannot blame the Yankees. There dismal, injury laden April led way to a spotty pitching staff in need of some help; Clemens could well be the deciding factor in a late season run for the playoffs.
Someday The Rocket will fall back into the atmosphere, the question is when? Every year the gamble teams take on him become more and more risky, but every year they also have been paid off more and more.
The Rocket has undoubtedly had an amazing career and is certainly one of the best pitchers in Baseball history; but is he worth the 1 million dollars he will be earning per start? I mean at this pace he mine as well pitch until he is seventy and earn an even more astounding astronomical amount of cash.
This is not to say he does not deserve the recognition he is receiving. After all, he has the more Cy Young Awards, 7, than anyone else ever to step onto the field; he is third on the all-time strikeout list with 4604; and eight on the all-time wins list with 348.
It may come as a surprise but all these amazing numbers is not why people watch Roger pitch. Fans just want to see if in fact some game mid-pitch his arm actually falls off and goes helicoptering towards home plate like the time he threw the bat at Mike Piazza.
You cannot blame the Yankees. There dismal, injury laden April led way to a spotty pitching staff in need of some help; Clemens could well be the deciding factor in a late season run for the playoffs.
Someday The Rocket will fall back into the atmosphere, the question is when? Every year the gamble teams take on him become more and more risky, but every year they also have been paid off more and more.
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