Re: Barry Bonds is an even bigger cheater than I thought...

> For years, sportswriters remarked that his massive "protective" gear -
> unequaled in all of baseball -- permits Bonds to lean over the plate
> without fear of being hit by a pitch. Thus situated, Bonds can handle
> the outside pitch (where most pitchers live) unusually well. This is
> unfair advantage enough, but no longer controversial. However, it is
> only one of at least seven (largely unexplored) advantages conferred
> by the apparatus.

He's only a "cheater" to backwards, primitive types who cannot accept
that man's evolution at this stage is technologically-driven.

I'm sure the fabric of his modern uniform confers advantages over Hank
Aaron's as well. His bats are better-engineered. His overall health is
at a higher level than ever possible in previous generations thanks to
advances in medical science. His morning toast is even better-fortified.
Whiners, give it a rest. You can't stop progress with your tears.

Things change. Someday, there will be homerun kings with fully robotic
arms who will never miss. We are at the dawn of a new era of baseball,
one where mere statistics no longer define the great players of the
game. Baseball will be art and art baseball.

Barry Bonds, like Prometheus, has broken the rules in order to propel
mankind along the path of advancement. Let the birds pick at his liver;
his gift to baseball cannot be ungiven.

On Aug 13, 3:08 pm, Ralph Watson and John Straczynski <f...@bar.baz>
wrote:
>
> <some lame crap>


Which one of you types with the left hand?

a.

> He's only a "cheater" to backwards, primitive types who cannot accept
> that man's evolution at this stage is technologically-driven.

If he did in fact use steroids (which is highly speculated), then he
is a cheater by definition and there is no way around it. MLB rules
forbid the use of such substances; thus, using them is cheating. If
MLB decided to change the rules so bats were illegal and you had to
swing at the ball with your arms, and then someone snuck a bat onto
the field and used it, that would be cheating. You may agree with what
he did (and disagree with MLB's rules), but I don't think you can
definitively say that Barry Bonds isn't a cheater unless you can prove
that he played the game according to the rules it was intended to be
played by. About this issue you have brought up though, it isn't
cheating as it is allowed, but it is still an advantage over the
players of the past (along with everything else you have mentioned).
That all has to be taken into perspective though because the pitchers
and outfielders also have advantages over the players of the past too
and thus will be better at throwing strikes and fielding his balls.
For the era he played in, my opinion is that Babe Ruth was the
greatest player (I'm a biased Yankees fan). Times change and so does
technology, but the rules must still be followed

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>> He's only a "cheater" to backwards, primitive types who cannot accept
>> that man's evolution at this stage is technologically-driven.
>
> If he did in fact use steroids (which is highly speculated), then he
> is a cheater by definition and there is no way around it. MLB rules
> forbid the use of such substances; thus, using them is cheating.

There were no rules in MLB about steroids at the time. You are a moron.

If
> MLB decided to change the rules so bats were illegal and you had to
> swing at the ball with your arms, and then someone snuck a bat onto
> the field and used it, that would be cheating. You may agree with what
> he did (and disagree with MLB's rules), but I don't think you can
> definitively say that Barry Bonds isn't a cheater unless you can prove
> that he played the game according to the rules it was intended to be
> played by. About this issue you have brought up though, it isn't
> cheating as it is allowed, but it is still an advantage over the
> players of the past (along with everything else you have mentioned).
> That all has to be taken into perspective though because the pitchers
> and outfielders also have advantages over the players of the past too
> and thus will be better at throwing strikes and fielding his balls.
> For the era he played in, my opinion is that Babe Ruth was the
> greatest player (I'm a biased Yankees fan). Times change and so does
> technology, but the rules must still be followed
>


You are yet another moronic twat who knows nothing of this topic.


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