Baseball
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Barry Bonds, What a Guy
There’s really little I can say without spoiling this ESPN wire report about Gary Sheffield detailing his relationship with Barry Bonds. A lot of people I know aren’t too high on Sheffield’s personality, although he has matured a bit… well, like him or not, he’s got nothing on Bonds.
Friday, September 10, 2004
If They Pitched to Him…
Why do I only hear this about Barry Bonds? ESPN is printing this over and over again, about how many HRs would he have if they pitched to him implying that it’s Bonds, not Aaron or the Babe who were walked.
For one thing, going into this season Bonds had 326 more ABs and only 8 more BB. They walked Ruth a ton (and hit him a crapload as well - with no armor).
Ted Williams was walked all the time as well. They avoided pitching to him like the plague.
Aaron didn’t have it so bad until he started coming close to Ruth’s record. Same goes for guys like Hank Greenberg who came close to Ruth’s single season record.
Anyway - the point of this is, I don’t mind them writing “if they pitched to him…” if they said that for anyone who was a big power/average hitter, but they’re not, and it’s annoying. That’s it, mini-rant over.