how many people HATE barry bonds as much as i do?
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OF COURSE I HATE BARRY BONDS HE RUINED BASEBALL AND HAS TARNISHED THE REPUTATION OF SOME GREAT BALLPLAYERS WHO HAPPEN TO BE CLEAN I.E. ALBERT PUJOLS.
1033930
no i hate that guy...he is a classless player
59680
Dear fellow Met fan: I hate the Yankees because the BOSS spends oodles of money on players who don't bring him a championship. Back in the day before Steinbrenner got Giambi, ARod, etc; Jeter, Tino Martinez and Paul O'Neill helped bring the Yanks to multiple titles. I guess I don't hate the Yankees all that much, but I seriously dislike them. When the BOSS is out, then I'll give them a little more respect. The same respect I have for guys like Joe Torre.
235854
I feel that the whole MLB is tainted and that it doesn't matter anymore what Barry does because steroids are everywhere. Major League Baseball is "trying" to fix the problem while all they are doing is just looking the other way while a player is juicing.\n\nPlayers are probably juicing right now as we speak without any consequences because Major League Baseball doesn't care. The MLB is a business. People come to watch, buy merchandise (jerseys), and want to see the players that can hit the long ball. MLB turns the other cheek to players that do steroids because the ones that are hitting the long ball use them.\n\nSteroids is tarnishing the history of the game, but is what will keep Major League Baseball alive in the future. People today love controversy and the long ball (both can be acquired by steroid use.) If Bonds starts hitting home runs again I'm sure people won't hate him as much as they do now.
1029589
We've collected baseball autographs and autographed cards for about 10 years.  I think Bonds has the worst reputation.  ALMOST any other guy tends to run 'hot' and 'cold'.  Sometimes they will and sometimes they won't.  I've also seen 45 year old 'kids' with a manila envelope FULL of stuff to sign (and resell) pushing through 8 and 9 year (real) kids like wheat to get to players.  That's what hurts the normal guy just wanting to collect for the fun of it.
1099067
The only people that DONT hate them are thier fans.\n\nAlthough I did find rather amusing that The Red Sox did beat the holy c.r.a.p. out of ny in the 2004 ALCS.
275078
I guess you can look at it as he found a loophole.  We should blame MLB just as much as Bonds.  But, it still doesn't change the fact that what he did was wrong.  I personally think he is a cheater and should be banned from baseball and Hall of Fame.
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I think everyone except Yankee fans hate the Yankees, while other teams are just competition.  The Yankee's have managed (Steinbrenners fault) to do all they can to ruin the chances of any other team competing simply because they are in a high dollar market.  But as a Red Sox fan I don't particularly hate the people on the team anymore, they aren't the late '70's team that was a bunch of jerks, now they're high priced spoiled brats who cry when they lose.
373003
Hey I'm a Braves fan and Hank Aaron is not what you think he is.  He's everything that Bonds is on a more bitter level.  He is ever bit of a racist and bitter about everything, and no one for the Braves cares much for him because of it.  The Media disliked him intensely because he was chasing the Babe, and he was not enjoyable to talk to from the media.  The parallels between the two personas is startling.  As far as the better hitter, no doubt it is Barry Bonds, and even before the steroids things came up he was still the best hitter I've ever seen in my lifetime.  Barry Bonds changed the way you play the Pirates or Giants, Hank never brought the fear like that in anyone.  One of the most overrated players of all time.  Take away the HR's and he's an average player.  Bonds has had insane batting averages and OBP seasons and MVPS.
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.
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ok ay i have two reasons first i am a barry bonds lover and if i caught the ball i am keeping the ball second for all the barry bonds haters i bet you if they got #714 or #715 i bet they would be number his number one fan and i now that MLB is guuna want the ball but if they do this is what i want a sighned autograph bat of every team in the league season tickets to any teams and evrey year of world seris tickets
593474
Well, I'll put it this way. The legends of the game have had cold streaks way longer than 4 days. I wouldn't be suprised if he doesn't hit 714 until tuesday. Bonds is not a legend, and due to the fact that the footnote attached to his asterix on homeruns will cut off half the page, it really doesn't matter if and when he passes Ruth and Aaron. You ever hit a homerun? It's tough, and no one wants to be the guy who let Bonds tie Ruth.
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"Rich" is right.  People go after Bonds now because he might have lied in prejury.  McGuire didn't answer the question if he used steroid.\n\nIt's also about the Babe Ruth record.  Racism?  It's your judgement.  \n\nA lot of people don't like Bonds, because his off-field attitudes.  That matters too.
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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.
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myself I think the deal about juicing has NEVER been proved. I mean come on people we are talking about a man that has played 20 years and has compiled some of the best stats EVER, and people want to trash everything he has done on whispers. Damn he started out on a crap team and lead it to be a contender. I think he has every god given right to be in the HOF. Look at some of the old timers in the hall... drunks, wife beaters, gamblers, I need not go on. I by far don't hate Barry and if most of the baseball public would get their heads out of their a$$es and get off the holier than thou seat they wouldn't either. Last I know he played in America ... ya know innocent until PROVEN guilty, and I don't mean people trying to make a quick buck with "tell all" books. Just my thoughts.....
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Im the same way, Im surrounded by "fans" who always laugh at my Loyality to The Tenn Titans and Chi Cubs, but of course their past two fave teams have been the White Sox and Red Sox since they won the series, I hate those sort of fans and they are everywhere
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seriously, everyone needs to step off Barry. He's one of the greatest players of all time, steroids or not. Steroids are cheating? I'm not saying i like them or would ever use them, but when he did them it was part of the game. Experts and other players estimate over 1/2 of all big leaguers were using steroids in the late 90s/early 00s. I mean, ho9lding in football is illegal, but most o linemen hold anyway. And they sure as he11 try not to get caught. \n\nConcluision: i'm glad streoids are over in baseball, i'm glad we have had such an amazing player as Barry to watch break the big records IN OUR LIFETIME, and I'm glad he hates the media, they made him out to look like what many people still see him as, an a$$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.