Should Barry Bonds retire and avoid embarrassment to baseball?
473572
Yes He should leave That Way We Wont Have To Hear About Him
612081
He'll pass the Babe, but I think (actually hope) Aaron's record is safe.\nHe's not any favorite of mine anyway. The steroids scandal will taint his legacy.
645117
Absolutely not.  Charley hustle, Mr. baseball, Pete Rose is still not admitted into the hall of fame after his conviction of gambling.  Jose Canseco had legal problems.  There are many races involved.  By the way I am on Barry Bonds side for breaking the record.  It is the news media that has convicted him and no one else.  Those who like to read and spread gossip should be ashamed as those who write it to make money.  It is just terrible what the public lets the sports broadcasters get away with.  Lets watch the games and only listen to the media guys with integrity.  The other bums probably could not even hit the baseball out of the infield.  They should be talking to a brick wall.\n\nGo Barry Bonds!!!  Hit 800 home runs.  Some of us really do appreciate what you have done.
386659
I think either after this season or next season he will retire. I think he wants to try and break Hank Aaron's record if he can.
315702
With Bonds you have the biggest distraction in the game. He can't walk five feet without a reporter asking him and his teammates about steroids. The Giants can barely get through a game without something being thrown onto the field. He's 43 years old. It's painful to try to watch the guy run. He's a huge injury risk. \n\nWith A-Rod you have gold glove defense. You have a guy who says all the right things despite being hated where ever he goes. You have the best hitter in the AL. He has power, speed, defense, and leadership. By the end of his career he will be considered one of the top five players to ever play the game. \n\nBonds has had an excellent career and it's pretty easy to say that he's the best player to ever play the game besides Babe Ruth. But A-Rod is in his prime and by the time he's done he could have numbers that are even better than Bonds. You have to take A-Rod. It's not even remotely close. \n\nIf you would've asked A-Rod or Pujols....well, that's a question.
422116
HE SHOULD GET OUT OF THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MY TURN TO TALK.HE GOT STEROIDS AND HAS TO BE SUSPENDED FROM THE GAME.IT IS NO OTHER PLAYERS BECAUSE SOME TEAMS DON'T HAVE STEROID PEOPLE.DIE BARRY BONDS(RASPBERRY)
359575
No.  The difference between players like Pujols and Bonds is age and talent.  Think of Pujols as the LeBron of baseball.  Pujols is so young and takes care of his body well.  Everyone knew from the beginning he would be a great player.  On the other hand, when you're over 40 years old and look like a truck as Bonds does, you know he has to be taking supplements to maintain his strength and figure.  Pujols doesn't need to take roids.  He might need to in about 15 years but he's smarter than that.  Plus, he's a great human being.  He's the kind of player that baseball needs more of.
306069
If McGwire were still playing, he'd likely have the same steroid cloud over him that Bonds does.  While Bonds being a jerk certainly contributes to his being "hassled", most of the trouble is based on the belief that he has not achieved his records fairly.
320533
Its because america has not successfully receded from discrimination and racism and we never will. Its very shameful for a group of people that call themselves baseball fans to rip a guy whos been one of the best players in this game, but i can understand their viewpoint. Barry Bonds has already broken a few all time records and is on the verge to tap on the doorsteps of immortality when he surpasses Babe Ruth and takes the second spot in the all time hr record...all this while he took steroids. So these "fans" call him a cheat and all these negative things because of that. The thing that pisses me off is that there are many other baseball players that have taken steroids like jason giambi, gary sheffield, jose canseco, yet everyone has to drive Barry Bonds to the dirt. Barry bonds would still have been an allstar without the roids just without a few homers give or take 100. since he is the most high profile player in the steroid scandal everyone is disregarding him and hassling him. This is a terrible act and a type of discrimination. the media is not helping either. they are destroying all that is and was bonds and the guy is contemplating retirements because of all these bigots. if giambi was on the verge of breaking babe ruths record i wonder if people would hate on him....anyways, victor conti is the devil here. he should be banned from baseball and put into jail. make him suffer because he ruined all these great careers and put an asterik next to them.
530848
i dont think barry bonds ever deserved to break a record.  ever since he got into the big leagues he has been nothing but a negative role model.  his attitude towards the fans, media, and his teammates is terrible.  records should be broken with class, not with selfishness.
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.
548939
seriously, everyone needs to step off Barry. He's one of the greatest players of all time, steroids or not. Steroids are cheating? I'm not saying i like them or would ever use them, but when he did them it was part of the game. Experts and other players estimate over 1/2 of all big leaguers were using steroids in the late 90s/early 00s. I mean, ho9lding in football is illegal, but most o linemen hold anyway. And they sure as he11 try not to get caught. \n\nConcluision: i'm glad streoids are over in baseball, i'm glad we have had such an amazing player as Barry to watch break the big records IN OUR LIFETIME, and I'm glad he hates the media, they made him out to look like what many people still see him as, an a$$hole cheater who deserves to be stricken from the record books. I think cheering at someone getting hit is wrong. Booing A-rod when he comes back to Seattle is one thing, cheering Bonds for getting hit intentionally is another. People need to get over what Bonds and everyone else did and start to be good baseball fans.
567128
i hope it was on purpose.  I also hope that bonds gets hit every single game from now till he retires.
620296
I never agreed with walking Barry Bonds even when he was hitting .300.  I read a statistical study that someone did, and please don't ask me where because I can't for the life of me remember, and the result of the study was that despite Bonds' lofty numbers, a team was still better off pitching to him than putting him on base.\n\nYes, he may hurt you with the home run, but even if he has a .400 OBP, that still means that you get him out 60% of the time, whereas if you always walk him intentionally, you don't get him out at all.\n\nOf course, there are situations where you would want to walk him, to set up force plays with less than two outs and the like, but walking him with a runner already on first, or heaven forbid, walking him with the bases loaded, like some teams have done, just is not a smart move.
1146476
I totally agree! \nI read an article that was about Barry Bonds BEFORE he made it to the majors.  He was playing in college.  He was so mean and cruel to his good natured teamates (he even broke into the house of one of them to steal some jam) that the coach finally decided to take a vote: should Bonds stay or go?  Bonds was the star of the team, but every player except 2 voted that he should go.  The coach said that since it wasn't ananymous, Bonds would stay.  Good thing, too, because if he had let Bonds go, Barry's 'big, scary daddy' would have beat the coach up.  Barry Bonds has had his hand held, and he's not used to anyone hating him.\nHe couldn't stand the attention Sosa and Mcquire were getting in the homerun race, and so Mr. Attention-seeker got jealous and used steroids, which left him in a big mess. 'Fb2005team3' is right. He was TOTALLY skinny before, and actually a great, HOF bound player!  Now he's a fatso who won't live past 60.
555006
First off, to the guy above me - try spelling "title" right before you type something.\n\nSecond, I have to say that I agree with the allegations that he did use steroids. ESPN the Magazine just had a story about him with a picture of him in '93 and one of him recently. Same pose (stretching before going to bat with the bat over his head). He didn't even look like the same person. However, I'm still undecided on whether or not he was aware that he was using steroids. But, it seems to me that'd be kind of hard not to realize that you're getting that much bigger that fast. On the other hand, you still have to have some talent and hand-eye coordination to make contact with the ball. So, it's not like steroids were the only thing that have propelled him to third all-time in HRs. There's talent there, too. But, I love the Giants and I love watching Barry play. I'm glad he's so close to the HR second place record and I hope he breaks Ruth's second place record and comes back again next year. His agent said that he expects him to return next year, just not sure for what team...be a DH in the AL or continue to play for the Giants? I think everyone should just lay off him, though, and let the man play baseball...for goodness sakes' it's just a sport...and, Ruth and Mantle, etc. weren't all exactly saints either...
569303
zack77766, of course if you look at him in Pittsburg and look at him today he's gonna be bigger!!!! That's a span of 20 years!!!!!! HE WORKED OUT AND BUILT UP MUSCLE!!!!!!!! And besides if any of you nay-sayers actually believe steroids help you hit homeruns, why didn't Jose Canseco hit a shitload more than he did in his career? He only hit 44 homers in a season!!! And according to Canseco, steroids help you heal faster and prolongs your carrer.Then why is Canseco out of baseball since 2001(and don't tell me you believe that shit of him being blackballed by baseball) when he just turned 40 on January of this year, and why are Bonds' knees still hurting him a year after the operation. All steroids do is give you muscle, not instant homeruns!!!!! Steroids don't give you hand-eye coordination, which is what you need to hit a baseball(hell, you need it for any sport). The point is, Barry has never failed a drug test and there is no such thing as an "undetectable steroid" or a masking agent that ONLY Barry has. He's clean, get over it.\n\nOk, here's my answer to the question:\n\nYes he belongs in the Hall of Fame.\n\n· 7 MVPs\n· 13-time All Star\n· 8 Gold Gloves\n· 12 Silver Slugger Awards\n· Third member of 700 Home Run Club\n· Only member in 500/500 Club\n· Single Season Home Run King (73)\n· Two-time N.L. Batting Champion (2002, 2004)\n· Player of the Decade for the 1990's by The Sporting News\n· All-time Major League walks leader\n· Set single-season walks (232) and intentional walks (120) record\n· Set single-season OBP record (.609)\n· Holds Major League record for consecutive seasons  with 30-or-more HR, accomplishing this 13 times\n\nDEFINITLY HALL OF FAME MATERIAL