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What I want to know is will Barry reach 800? He's got maybe another 10 in him this season, but chances are that if he still wants to play for another season or two, nobody will want him.
And A-Hole errr A-Rod...will he give this new tainted record a shot? And will he have to start enhancing in five or seven years to do so?
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publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
trickybeck wrote:
I guess the good news:
...is that if Alex Rodriguez, currently age 32, plays for another 10 years, averaging 30 HR's per, he'll break 800.
... and Derek Jeter, should he remain healthy and continue to pump out 200 hits a year could conceivably break Pete Rose's lifetime hits record.
Looks like we're stuck with the Georgia Peach though.
Samira wrote:
I don't know why everyone is acting like a sullied virgin
Fake it until you make it...
Part of what makes sports great are the anti-heros. The duality of greatness alongside human frailty. Womanizers, juicers, gamblers, even the occasional murderer remind us that through hard work and much determination even the lowliest crackhead can make assloads of money and garner the sympathy and fandom of millions in America. Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden come to mind immediately.
Seriously, though, I don't hold athletes to any higher standard than I'd hold myself to. If the guys getting the endorsements are juicing, I'm going to get on that stuff as fast as I can get my greedy little hands on it. If I'm a degenerate gambler before the fame and fortune associated with professional athletics enter the equation, I'm gonna be an even worse one afterward. If I have a penchant for watching two dogs bred for fighting rip each other apart till one is reduced to a bloody pile of fur, well, then I deserve to be lynched.
That's a whole 'nother story, I suppose.
Seriously, though, I don't hold athletes to any higher standard than I'd hold myself to. If the guys getting the endorsements are juicing, I'm going to get on that stuff as fast as I can get my greedy little hands on it. If I'm a degenerate gambler before the fame and fortune associated with professional athletics enter the equation, I'm gonna be an even worse one afterward. If I have a penchant for watching two dogs bred for fighting rip each other apart till one is reduced to a bloody pile of fur, well, then I deserve to be lynched.
That's a whole 'nother story, I suppose.
its funny that it has taken all this time, personal trainers, drugs, modern exorcise equipment, diaticians, and a stiff workout regiment to break a record made by a man who had none of these advantages so long ago.
says something about how extrodinary these individuals really were so long ago.
that said, the time an athlete has to make it big is very very small in most sports. usually less than 10 years to make it or fade away. and for every berry bonds and michael jordan, there are 10,000 schmucks that get less than 100k a year and get cut and fade away to nothingness without a financial future. the struggle to NOT BE one of those schmucks is extremely competitive. a razor thin edge every one of them has to walk if they dont want to end up on wellfare in a few years with blown out knees, numerious fractures, bad backs and other cronic injurys. one slip, and your gone.
thats alot of pressure. and each and every one of them is a superrior athlete or they wouldnt be there in the first place. they just didnt have enough to make it to the very top and ONLY the very top get the fat money.
for a game.
if he did riods and made it, more power to him. people need a reality check. it is THEIR life they are rolling the dice with. and its a GAME. he made it. he sacrificed for it. he sweated for it. he bet his entire future on it. and he is being singled out because.....HE MADE IT BIG. the other 1,000,000 baseball players that did the same are crying because HE MADE IT and they didnt.
fair? ROFL, REAL LIFE isnt fair. the best get the fat pay REGUARDLESS of how they get to be the best. cheaters and hard workers alike.
he sacrificed his body and his future on this one little slice of his life and WON.
im not gona cry about HOW he made it, more power to him.
fair play is the battle cry of loosers.
says something about how extrodinary these individuals really were so long ago.
that said, the time an athlete has to make it big is very very small in most sports. usually less than 10 years to make it or fade away. and for every berry bonds and michael jordan, there are 10,000 schmucks that get less than 100k a year and get cut and fade away to nothingness without a financial future. the struggle to NOT BE one of those schmucks is extremely competitive. a razor thin edge every one of them has to walk if they dont want to end up on wellfare in a few years with blown out knees, numerious fractures, bad backs and other cronic injurys. one slip, and your gone.
thats alot of pressure. and each and every one of them is a superrior athlete or they wouldnt be there in the first place. they just didnt have enough to make it to the very top and ONLY the very top get the fat money.
for a game.
if he did riods and made it, more power to him. people need a reality check. it is THEIR life they are rolling the dice with. and its a GAME. he made it. he sacrificed for it. he sweated for it. he bet his entire future on it. and he is being singled out because.....HE MADE IT BIG. the other 1,000,000 baseball players that did the same are crying because HE MADE IT and they didnt.
fair? ROFL, REAL LIFE isnt fair. the best get the fat pay REGUARDLESS of how they get to be the best. cheaters and hard workers alike.
he sacrificed his body and his future on this one little slice of his life and WON.
im not gona cry about HOW he made it, more power to him.
fair play is the battle cry of loosers.
shadowrelm wrote:
berry bonds
Mmmm breakfast cereal. Now with more juice!
publiusvarus wrote:
we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
Debalic wrote:
shadowrelm wrote:
berry bonds
Mmmm breakfast cereal. Now with more juice!
The blacker the Barry, the sweeter the juice?
It works on so many levels...
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