How do you feel about Barry Bonds becoming the new HR king? - Page 13 - Detroit Pistons Fan Community

mikhail1973 · #**121** (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by roscoe36

If you're asking me, the answer is yes. If you are asking someone who isn't crazy, the answer is probably no.

roscoe36 · #**122** (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 07:50 PM

I also wanted to say that I am really proud of Barry Bonds. Not only is he the new home run king, but he has a bigger cranium than any past champion. It's amazing when someone dominates on so many level.

detteam · #**123** (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by roscoe36

As Jim Leyland recently said on the radio, if this guy was a media darling, we would be appreciating him as one of the greatest players of all time. Instead he's become the poster boy for steroids when numerous players (including pitchers) have been juicing throughout this era.

Baseball is a sport with a long history of cheaters. There have been cheaters in every era, and many HOFers were known cheaters. It's not unique to this era, and it's not unique to Bonds. One can only guess how many legends of the game might have been exposed if there was the media and internet coverage, as well as the scientific testing that today's athletes face, in their era.

You raise a good point about the long history of baseball cheaters, but the career home run title stands far above all other MLB records in most people's memories. The asterisk will remain in full force and be contemplated for many years to come...that is, unless A-Rod stops screwing around.

TaShawn · #**124** (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 09:00 PM

How many other countries are worried about the working conditions for American workers?

During the depression, times were obviously tough. Working conditions suffered as competition for remaining jobs increased and employers could pay next to nothing for life threatening jobs. So, unions popped up and created some leverage for the workers.

The best thing we can do for foreign workers is keep buying their product. The rest is up to them.

If you want Nike to pay high wages, then they sure aren't going to have a factory in China. They may as well pay high wages to people in America and save on the shipping costs and the hassle of dealing with the Chinese government.

ggazoo69 · #**125** (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TaShawn

If you want Nike to pay high wages, then they sure aren't going to have a factory in China. They may as well pay high wages to people in America and save on the shipping costs and the hassle of dealing with the Chinese government.

Exactly!

coynejeremy · #**126** (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Nemo

Their economy is on the upswing as they break out of their isolation these last hundreds of years. Items, like cars and clothes are being bought in mass quantities now. Their whole infrastructure is changing. I just want the average factory worker in China to have a chance when the prices start their western-like climb.

Definitely a good point, and I wholeheartedly agree. One interesting thing about China is the way geography seems to affect the economy. In the east, especially along the seaboard, the economy is booming. In the west, people are starving. Literally starving. And even in the east, the middle class live in conditions that some of the poorest among us wouldn't accept.

roscoe36 · #**127** (**permalink**) 08-09-2007, 11:40 PM

It's gunna take the Chinese several generations to move to a credit-based inflationary economy like we have in the West.

TwYcH · #**128** (**permalink**) 08-10-2007, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by detteam

You raise a good point about the long history of baseball cheaters, but the career home run title stands far above all other MLB records in most people's memories. The asterisk will remain in full force and be contemplated for many years to come...that is, unless A-Rod stops screwing around.

Leading the MLB in HR's is screwing around?

hahahahahahahahahaha

Nemo · #**129** (**permalink**) 08-10-2007, 09:33 AM

The sad thing is that pro athletes like Alex Rodriguez and even Tiger Woods will be under suspicion because of the amount of players who have juiced up...................

MotownPride · #**130** (**permalink**) 08-10-2007, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Nemo

The sad thing is that pro athletes like Alex Rodriguez and even Tiger Woods will be under suspicion because of the amount of players who have juiced up...................

The sad thing is that they could be "cheating" too. Then what will we say?

View Poll Results: How do you feel about Bary Bonds becoming the new HR king?
I don't want him to break the record and MLB should not acknowledge it	7	24.14%
Bonds is a great player and deserves recognition when/if he breaks the record	14	48.28%
Who cares?	8	27.59%
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