Bob Costas: "Baseball purists believe 62 is the legitimate record"

[tremonthustler1]

at the end of the day andro and other sh-t was legal and mcgwire had it right there at his locker. Couple reporters mentioned it but the story went away and nobody cared. Everyone just sat and enjoyed the show. History has shown that Ruth tried to get an edge.. that Mantle went to "Dr. Feelgood" to pump him full of sh-t to recover from injuries. none of it was illegal and nobody really cared because athletes have always tried to get an edge up. Some things cross a line but those substances weren't really against any rule and baseball reaped the profits from the chases.

Another thing to consider.. all these players doing PEDS.. yet nobody has come close to Bonds 73 homers in under 500 ABs with 175 BBs.

Why? Because he's the best.. PEDs don't do that. Talent does.

I don't fault Bonds for skirting around rules that weren't really enforced. The ones that got caught and violated are the ones who should be ignored. Bonds wasn't that even if we know he did.

But naturally the casual fan doesn't give a fukk about steroids because we don't care for the athletes as people. In some sports we don't even think it's possible to be effective at your sport without it.


as for what PED's can do for you, I'm not about to ingest some drug that could shrink my balls, cause me to get flabbynsick and fukk my insides up if it doesn;t benefit my performance. That's why people do them in spite of it all.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

as for what PED's can do for you, I'm not about to ingest some drug that could shrink my balls, cause me to get flabbynsick and fukk my insides up if it doesn;t benefit my performance. That's why people do them in spite of it all.

nobody said PEDs don't have benefits that's obvious. modern medicine/surgeries and training does too. But Bonds was the only player to be so feared and so locked in that it was a video game... That's not PEDs... that's his talent.

 

[tremonthustler1]

I think this is cap.

Even Griffey doesn’t get the shine people think he should get.

Cuz post-Seattle Griffey was surly, injury prone and out of sight, out of mind in Cincinnati. Griffey at 31 was already in decline. Bonds at 31 had a 40/40 season. It wasn't til Griffey came back to Seattle at the end that everyone was reflective of his career and gave him bonus props for being clean (kinda like how Pujols is getting all the love he lost when he was in Anaheim).

Griffey will forever get love, but he gets the "imagine if he didn't get hurt" treatment.

 

[Michael's Black Son]

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

I've been sitting back during this entire Judge "home run race" like:

MLB certainly didn't have a problem when Sosa and McGwire were putting butts in the seats in 1998. I watched that entire 1998 season, and I remember teams like the Brewers and Marlins having packed stadiums in the middle of August instead of their usual 1,500 tickets sold. This is why I don't wanna hear any of this PED bullshyt when no one had a problem with it back then. Bonds, McGwire, Sosa should all be in the HOF. But now they wanna erase 1998-2003 and act like Judge has the real record....but still keeping the millions they made back then.

It's crazy how in MLB if the media doesn't like you they can fukk with your career like that.

The Brewers were 26.5 games back, but check out the crowd:

Amazing that Sosa Bonds and all those guys aren't in the HALL OF FAME.

 

[staticshock]

Why don't all the people who go hard for Bonds also go hard for Sosa? He's also black lol

Sammy baths in chemicals to bleach his skin. Dominicans are the biggest c00ns on the planet.

 

[Truefan31]

Why don't all the people who go hard for Bonds also go hard for Sosa? He's also black lol

Because sosa was very average before the roids, unlike bonds who was already a goat player. Sosa was also using corked bats and who knows what else……….

Plus sosa was juelzing at the hearing acting like he couldn’t speak English. And he looks like a pepto bismol bottle now

 

[Dem313wayz]

Why don't all the people who go hard for Bonds also go hard for Sosa? He's also black lol

PED benefitted Sammy Sosa.

Sammy was either a HR or strike out guy. Bad fielder. Bad base runner. Was just ok before the PED use.

Barry was a legit 5 tool player and HOFer before the alleged use

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Why don't all the people who go hard for Bonds also go hard for Sosa? He's also black

“I no black”

 

[ExodusNirvana]

What the fukk does "baseball purist" mean?

I think if you flip your bat you should be prepared to get beaned

I think you shouldn't take a pitcher out if he's pitching a no no or a perfect game

That's baseball purist shyt

But Barry Bonds is the single season home run leader

 

[AnonymityX1000]

What the fukk does "baseball purist" mean?

I think if you flip your bat you should be prepared to get beaned

I think you shouldn't take a pitcher out if he's pitching a no no or a perfect game

That's baseball purist shyt

But Barry Bonds is the single season home run leader

Baseball nerds who never played but somehow their opinion on the sport matters. Bob Costas, Peter Gammons and Tim Kurjikan types who just know every quirky stat, baseball history and brag about watching the Cape Cod league in their spare time. They are given a seat at the table to comment on shyt. Football and basketball don't have these types on sports coverage regularly like baseball does.

 

[315]

Costas been a fakkit in my eyes since his tirade on NFL celebrations

 

[OneManGang]

I used to think Obama resentment birthed MAGA, but was it backlash to Barry Bonds?

The Kwame Brown story, and his comments about media feeding Black athlete bashing to an eager audience......gave me flashbacks to the fury unleashed on sports radio when Bonds approached and then passed the number 2 person on the all time HOME RUN list, Babe Ruth. Who else remembers hearing...

www.thecoli.com

Tried to point something out a while ago. Since it wasn't a hot topic, dudes dismissed it with smilies and insults.

Im not gon lie, I busted out laughing at that thread. But you know what you thinking outside the box might have some merit

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

 

[mastermind]

Judge not even pretending to play ball with this shyt has been the best part of this whole story.

No one wants these to old white guys in baseball anymore. They tried to take baseball back to the stone ages in the 00s after decades of black and brown culture transforming the sport, and Asian culture beginning to make a print. By doing so they alienated an entire generation of American kids away from the game. They let baseball as a product develop further abroad than at home.

You look around the league now and you see young, exciting, charismatic players of varying ethnicities and you know at their hearts these dudes don't like it. They know they've lost their game forever, and the HR record is the last narrative they've been hoping to change.

Watch the LLWS and every lil white kids favorite player is some Dominican cat with dreads/waves, jewels, custom cleats, a bat flip that qualifies as a javelin toss, and a coordinated routine for every base on his home run trot. The Boomers lost the game.

MLB has legit told the league to stop throwing at guys for having fun. The years of social media calling out baseball got enabling white men to punish minorities with attempted murder for celebrating hitting a ball with a stick actually brought about change.

Everyone who truly cares about 61 will be dead of old age by 2035 and I think I'm being generous.

Hank Aaron didn’t play ball with this bullshyt either. It’s only boomers and “play the game the right way” types.