I wasn't comparing the two guys. I don't see a lot of similarities. If you look at what I wrote, I was talking about Mercury's reference to retiring right before you break a historic record. That is exactly what Barry Sanders did, retiring right before he broke Walter Peyton's all-time career rushing record. He also once took himself out of the last game of a season right before he became the season's rushing leader.

Don't worry. Some of us got it.

I still don't get it.

Barry Sanders gets it...........So does Henry Aaron............

What else is new?

Here we go:
ESPN.com - MLB - Poll: Whites, blacks view Bonds chase differently

Leave it to ESPN to sanction and conduct this poll. I know they are the so called experts in sports, but I think this poll generated in their own offices in Bristol as some employees and contibutors (Mike Lupica, John Feinsten, the white haired Boston guy amoing others who probably hate the fact that their employer has a daily "Chasing Aaron" segment on the bottom of the page sports ticker and lead off every sports center with a Bonds HR if he hits one that day or night.

As far of the races preference, no comment on that, but what do you expect?? Similar racial percentages surfaced originally when asked the question if OJ did it?

ESPN has the $$$ so they are going to be on the top providing sports information to the world. Obviously they are going to pay $$$ to their employees to provide that information. So that information is going to be whatever creates more interest and therefore more $$$.

first off, disclaimer: not a huge baseball fan so i don't really know what i am talking about. this is just an outsider's opinion.

my problem with the issue, i think, is that bonds is still playing. i mean, if he's playing then in my view he's as eligible as anyone else to break records and receive whatever accolades correspond to doing so. that said, he probably shouldn't be playing, but then that's mlb's problem in my view and, until they fix it by implementing some sort of more consistent policy/testing procedure, etc., then they are just sort of indignantly blowing smoke about the purity of a game that, as far as i can tell hasn't been pure for some time (if it ever was). and in that case, i wanna know why everybody's got their whitey tighties in a bundle over him breaking this record.

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I don't understand how their sample size is big enough to provide a racial breakout, yet the sub-sample of about 25% is not big enough for questions 2 and 3. But then it is big enough for the rest of the questions.

I don't see anything special about questions 2 or 3 that would have made this the case.

It seems to me like Hark Aaron has cast his vote by saying he doesn't care about it and won't attend to see it happen. This is after he criticized the baseball comissioner for not being there when he broke the Babe's record.

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