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best year in baseball

fab4fab4 Posts: 280 ✭✭
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we are going to see the best year in baseball ever, when it comes to milestones and records. if everybody stays healthy

barry bonds breaking the all time home run record. (only person i like less than bonds is aaron)

sammy sosa and ken griffey jr.(15 shy) getting 600 home runs

frank thomas, alex rodriguez (8 shy) getting 500 homers

manny rameriz (18 shy) jim thome (16 shy) have a great shot at 500

gary sheffield (26 shy) with an outside shot at 500

craig biggio getting 3000 hits

roger clemens getting win # 350

tom glavine getting win # 300 (3 shy)

the second half of the season should be good.


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  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    Don't care about Bonds or Sosa. everyone else is fine image
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow that is quite a bunch of guys getting to some milestones, should be fun!
  • fab4fab4 Posts: 280 ✭✭
    not a big bonds fan but his list of awards are impressive

    1990 NL Most Valuable Player;NL Gold Glove-LF
    1991 NL Gold Glove-LF
    1992 NL Most Valuable Player;NL Gold Glove-LF
    1993 NL Most Valuable Player;NL Home Run Champion;NL RBI Leader;NL Gold Glove-LF
    1994 NL Gold Glove-LF
    1996 NL Gold Glove-LF
    1997 NL Gold Glove-LF
    1998 NL Gold Glove-LF
    2001 NL Most Valuable Player;NL Home Run Champion
    2002 NL Most Valuable Player;NL Batting Champion;NL Hank Aaron Award
    2003 NL Most Valuable Player
    2004 NL Most Valuable Player;NL Batting Champion;NL Hank Aaron Award

    plus all-time home run leader and 73 hr in a season

    we all know he has more issues than time magazine but that is what makes it interesting.
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am a big Bonds fan, again he may be just guilty of putting himself on a fair playing field with the majority of his piers but the talent has always been there. Staying on topic however I didnt realize this many guys were within striking distance of the 500 HR mark, sadly I think the 500 HR club is now going to be upped to the 600 HR club.
  • MichiganMichigan Posts: 4,942 ✭
    Baseball more than any other sport is about statistics when all is said and done. The most hallowed stat of all will soon be tainted
    probably for a long time to come.

    The 500 home run club does not seem to be that much of a big deal anymore, more of a yawner than anything else.
  • fab4fab4 Posts: 280 ✭✭
    i disagree with the 500 club not being a big deal.

    you have 22 players with 300 wins

    you have 23 players with 3000 hits

    these are automatic induction to the hall of fame

    you are looking at only 21 players (including frank thomas) that have reached that milestone but now since espn and talk radio has beat this to death and now it is not important.





  • mercurynutmercurynut Posts: 3,207
    I hope someone puts a bullet in Bonds head at 754...Sosa is a disgrace to the HR all time greats.

    The rest are fine with me.
  • stitzenstitzen Posts: 1,771
    While Bonds may have cheated, so did everyone else in the era he played in - including the pitchers. Also, isn't it intriguing that Clemens' career really took off after he hit 35, just like Bonds did?

    I'm not sayin'...I'm just sayin'.


    It will be a great year for milestones.
  • MPeterMPeter Posts: 568
    Forget about Clemens, he's done! Greg Maddux will finish the season with more career wins than Clemens. He should be in the spotlight instead.
  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I hope someone puts a bullet in Bonds head at 754... >>

    Wow. It's one thing to hope he injures himself at 754 and can't play any more. A bullet to the head? Wow. Just....wow.
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,658 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I hope someone puts a bullet in Bonds head at 754... >>

    Wow. It's one thing to hope he injures himself at 754 and can't play any more. A bullet to the head? Wow. Just....wow. >>




    More than Wow, just plain ridiculas..
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    Id love to see a 108 mph fast ball hit Bonds right in the arm brace blowing it up and rendering Bonds stunned for the entire 07 season.

    JS
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    It's not a great year when an avowed cheater and out and out jerk is about to break the most hallowed record in sports. Add in one more cheater reaching 600 and an overlooked but suspected cheater in Clemens (who was named in Jason Grimsley's affidavit to the Feds) and it's a sad year, not a great one.

    At least solid guys like Biggio, Thome, and Frank Thomas will prevent it from being completely shameful.

    Bud must go.



    Ron
    Ron Burgundy

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    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    The was an unwritten rule aganst roids back then, now it is written. How about Sosa whne his bat exploded and all tat cork came out? I have to say THAT is cheating!!
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