Hank Aaron Is Still the King in My Book
So, Barry Bonds broke the home run record held by Hank Aaron for 33 years. And I’m not a bit happy about it.
It’s not because of the possibility of steroid use. Whatever whatever. I suspect Mark Maguire might have used steroids as well, but I enjoyed the race between he and Sammy Sosa to break the single-season home run record immensely. Steroids are not a good thing, but again, whatever.
I have another issue with Barry Bonds. And lest you think it’s just because he’s not a Diamondback or because he’s not on a team that I like, think again. Barry Bonds and I both went to Arizona State University. He played baseball for the Sun Devils and had a stellar career. (By the way, so did his godfather, Reggie Jackson.) In fact, Barry Bonds and I actually attended ASU at the same time. So maybe I passed him or had a class with him. Who knows? My point is that I don’t really have anything personal against him or any reason not to root for him.
Except. Except for the fact that I think he’s an egotistical jerk. Why do I think that? Well, have you ever watched him after he hits a home run? Most players (most good players anyway) hit the ball, put their heads down and run the bases. Barry Bonds, on the other hand, hits the ball, stands there and admires it, and then walks to first base. And that irritates the bejesus out of me. I think that is disrespectful, rude, condescending, arrogant, and several other adjectives. I cannot stand to watch him play baseball. Grrr.
I guess the good news is that now he’s broken the record, we won’t have to see every freaking home run he hits replayed ad nauseum on the news and we won’t have to hear about about it day in and day out. The record has been broken. The story is over. Stop showing his arrogant mug on the television for awhile.
Comment by OldOldLady Of The Hills
August 8, 2007 @ 11:30 am
Well, for me, it is this recird that was broken “on Steroids”….I’m sorry, but Hank Aaron didn’t take anything like that…and all the other records set bavk in the day were set on PURE Talent! Steroids gives an unfair and distorted thing to the body and I’ll tell you something else, it wouldn’t surprise me to know that his “attitude” was enhanced by steroids, too….This arrogance had to already be there but the steroids exagerates those tendencies. As far as I am concerned this so called record breaking stuff is not the stuff that REAL records are made of and it will always be tainted, as far as I am concerned, and I am not alone in this belief….! Mark McQuire…Tainted, too.
Comment by OldOldLady Of The Hills
August 8, 2007 @ 11:42 am
I left a coooment and I don’t know what happened to ity.
Basically what I said is: Steroids have tainted these “wins” and everyone knows it. So as far as I am concerned, this is not a true clean “win”…and it would not surprise me if Bonds egotistacle attitude has been enhanced along with his physical abilities…BY STEROIDS! None of those great great players of the past took anything like these drugs and this is a big thing, not just to me, but to the true baseball fans who do not feel that this record breaking is a true one. Steroids are a bad things and an unfair thing too. These people who have gotten so many home runs, etc, in the last years who are on steroids—well, that’s cheating. Plain and Simple. Hank Aaron is still ‘the man’ in my book.