should barry bonds retire after this year?
143023
Yes, Barry Bonds should retire. Basseball is a team sport. It seems that Bonds is only intrested in breaking the homerun record and not the welfare of his team. He is over rated.
640924
Barry doesnt deserve the record. He isnt even worthy enogh of an asterisk. Barry Bonds is a cheater and should be band from the game with his stats from 1999 - 2004 erased. If you ask me, Barry Bonds was an amazing player and when he started BALCO he destoyed himself. was $7,000,000 not good enogh for him, he needed steroids so he could make more? I will be booing all the way, if he cries, I'll laugh. He will beat the Babe, but lets see him get 300 more home runs without drugs, win 95 games, and use crappier bats, ball, walls 500 feet away, and do it drunk. The Babe is better than Bonds, he has more home runs in less games, that should be the only thing you need to determine whose better. Along with a batting average of .342, I mean c'mon.
1038216
He will probably end up in the AL next year as his body is just too week from...old age.  Or that he cant take steroids anymore.  One of the two, actually a combo of both.  Hopeully will not break Aaron's record of 756.
1182838
Definitely. Bonds is the face of the Giants. Ask anyone on the streets anywhere (even the little kids) to name a player from the SF Giants and most everyone will answer Bonds. Though Bonds' speed has greatly diminished (taking away his basestealing threat), he is still a threat to hit one out of the park every time he steps up to the plate. I'm too young to have witnessed most of Bonds' other feats (esp. his speed on the basepaths), but he has been the most exciting player to watch in baseball for the past few years while he was hitting homers at that torrid pace. We might never see another player like Bonds...not only in SF but anywhere else in the league for that matter - and most Giants fans realize this..which is why they still love him. Barry will always be Barry, despite his bad attitude and alleged steorid use...you can't deny he's had tremendous impact on the game of baseball. Fact of the matter is, if it weren't for Barry, half the fans who come out to the park probably even wouln't show up at AT&T this year.
1146761
No.  He's a very, very good player.  But very, very good players don't go to the hall of fame.  Special ones do.  He's not that special.  He had 46 HR's last year - but in today's game, that's nothing special.
348281
Barry Bonds is better.  I don't know the statistics but I know that Barry Bonds (according to my dad) was a good young player in the '90's and he was skinny.  He was able to play well and just didn't get that much attention, that's all.  I would say he is a better player because he would've passed Babe Ruth's record even without steroids; it's just that now that everyone knows he took steroids to get attention, he looks bad.  He also to most people looks like all his home runs came from steroids, but 'tis false in my opinion.  He just wanted attention for being big and powerful QUICKLY, so took the short way and did steroids to have immediate attention.  He is still a better player, but just made the wrong choice.  He could've begun to get attention when he was getting closer to the home run record; he already was the sole member of the 400-400 club (400 home runs, 400 stolen bases), and eventually he would've gotten attention and been inducted into the Hall of Fame for his accomplishments; THEN everybody would see how great he was.  But now it's all negative attention.  I repeat, though, that Barry Bonds is a better player.
501392
Well he will retire after World Cup 2006. \nSeen that article here, about him, and I swear I could see some hair in the pic. Maybe it's me :P\n\nhttp://www.worldcuptour.org/news/zidane-announces-decision-to-retire-after-the-world-cup-2006/\nComment it as you like.\n\nAlex
492371
Barry Bonds would not still be playing if he had not taken performance enhancers.  Yes, he is a great home run hitter, but no one, NO ONE, has ever doubled their home run-to-at-bat ratio at the age of 39 or 40.  Why?\n\nAdvancing age decreases home run output for everyone.  UNLESS you are elongating your career with performance enhancers.  In short, Barry Bonds is cheating every single player who ever played straight.\n\nFrom 2000-2005, Barry Bonds should have half the home runs he hit nullified.  These are the dates that he is documented as having been taking performance enhancing drugs.  These are the dates his home run-to-at-bat ratio doubled.\n\nBaseball needs to take action on this for the integrity of the game, and for the honor of every Major League player who did not enhance their skills with some kind of substance.  The fans deserve to know that their favorite players can be looked up to for the skills they were born with.  Not for trying to beat the system, and us, for the sake of more money.\n\nBarry Bonds is a great player, and he is also a selfish, delusional, misguided sociopath who thinks the rules don't apply to him.  That is a great message to send to our kids.\n\nHis punishment will send a message that sportsmanship is not dead.  Even though there is trash talking, fights, and huge egos, a line has to be drawn at performance enhancing substances.  You and I can't get away with it, so why should our athletes.
519808
I think that he will. It may not be this year, but next year for sure. That is if they pitch to him and not walk him all the time.
577743
I would rather see Bonds retire before he surpasses Aaron on the all-time homerun list. That way It would still be known as a sacred mark. Bonds may have cheated but he was only doing what EVERY homerun hitter was doing at the time, (McGuire , Sosa ) come to mind. With that said, I still believe Bonds would  ( IS ) the most dangerous hitter period in the league. The steroids are not making him hit the ball.
1008663
Yes, he should retire. De la Hoya has so many other things to do and is very busy with his promoting career.\n\nMayorga was built up a bit for his fight with Oscar. Sure, Mayorga may be a good fighter who has beaten other good fighters, but he was still nowhere near the skill level of De la Hoya. \n\nThe thing is, Oscar De la Hoya likes taking the biggest fights available. He fights the biggest name fighters and takes home the biggest paychecks. I don't think, to him, a final fight with Mayorga would be worthy of his legacy. He really does need the Mayweather fight to close out his career. I mean, if he's able to beat who is currently considered to be the pound-for-pound champion, well, that's just what he needs to do to secure his legacy. I think he can do it, too.  ;D
360346
Yes, it's like a deal with the devil. Barry Bonds got a boost in power but he had to give up years of his life for it. Even though he has stopped taking them, the steroids still will play an effect on his body. He knew what he was doing, but I guess he thought breaking the all-time homerun record was worth it. He'll be sorry in about 10 ti 15 years.
311454
Honestly, if he plays 120 games, like the Giants hope he plays, he will hit about 32. The reason 50 and 60 are out of the question is because he will be walked alot this season. That averages to 1 HR in 4 games. That may be even higher but if the players in front of him can get some hits and allow Bonds the chance to swing, he will get his 30 some. To say he will hit 50-60 averages to 1 HR for every 2-2.2 AB.
24805
In my opinion, he will not end up signing with a team and retire for good.  I think last year was the first time ever he began to look "old" on the mound.  His age has finally caught up to him, and I think he realizes that, and that is why he will retire.
1152621
I would like to see him bat until he is 40 yrs old atleast. But Considering his "Unfortunate" injuries, I think he will play 2 years more.But you never know.
870867
I think San Fran will bring him back in the hopes he will break the record next year.  They need the attendence to pay off that stadium and that does seem to be the only place in America where Bonds is actually liked.  If they do pass, I can't imagine another team willing to give him much to take him and most don't want him simply because of his knee, off-field problems and the fact that he is a well-known cancer in the clubhouse.  Yankees don't need any more hitters - they need pitching.  Detroit doesn't want him (despite what so many idiots think) because they don't want the distractions and media circus (and they just got Sheff).  Boston is run by idiots - maybe they'll take him.  \n\nSeriously - I think he'll return to San Fran for one more year and then retirement.\n\nEdit - Kurt - you are one of those idiots obviously - Tigers are not interested in Bonds and never were.  They just forked out three pitchers and $13-14 mil a year for a DH (Sheffield).  Why the hell would they want Bonds?
898632
He wants to stay but I think that if he doesn't get the job done in 2007 he will exercise his option to leave town.  Face it, of all his HOF stats, very few have come in clutch situations.  I guess it's easier to he a home run when your team is either up or down by 8 runs.