Baseball Hist*ry Is Made
Posted in Current Events by John E. Pannell on August 8th, 2007 at 3:56 am 
Last night baseball hist*ry was made. It was truly a sh*t in the arm to the sp*rt. Barry B*nds br*ke Hank Aar*n’s rec*rd and hit his 756th h*me run. Fans in San Francisc* were juiced up with excitement.
A rare r**kie card f*r him, fr*m bef*re he started w*rking *ut hard and using his w*ndr*us flax seed *il, is sh*wn.
It will be interesting t* see h*w the media rep*rt this st*ry. I d* n*t kn*w yet if any*ne caught the ball *r what they plan t* d* with it. I w*nder what it w*uld be w*rth *n eBay.
If y*u have been able t* read this far, then y*u can pr*bably guess what I think ab*ut Barry B*nds and any “chemical help” he may have had in setting this rec*rd. D*es any*ne think this acc*mplishment deserves an asterisk in the rec*rd b**ks?
You bet your asterisk it does!
Not just for the “cream” and the “clear” (”just the flaxseed oil, sir”), but the brace on his elbow, which removes any variation from his lateral motion as the arms swing through the ball. Banned from MLB, but “grandfathered” in for those that used it since the 1990s (like Barry, whose head makes him look like the stunt double for “the Great Kazoo”).
LOL!!! You crack me up John! Nice post!
The brace on the elbow doesn’t bother me much at all. I don’t understand why it was banned.
Players already wear various types of protection for other senstive body parts. Most wear at least two devices with their uniforms that they are freequently seen to be adjusting. Do we ban them, too, because it makes them more courageous and aggressive at the plate and reduces flaws in their physical motions?
Don’t think too hard about what I’m referring to!
I feel that there is nothing wrong with Barry holding the record. The so called advantage he had was available to everyone before it was banned. You cannot say he created when the substance was encouraged and used thoughout baseball. It only became banned when baseball was forced to accept reality that those things harm your health.
Over the years players have used various things to give them an edge, whether it is the spitter, pine tar or roids — thats baseball.
Jeff
Rather than cutting and pasting the entire article, here is a link http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003621797
It would be hard to draw the line over legal procedures and techniques, and it would be difficult to make the argument that steroids, WHEN THEY WERE LEGAL, were different from Lasik procedures or Tommy John surgery. But once the steroids were banned, with no grandfather clause (like the spitball, like the “protective” brace that he wore, that is when the asterick comes in.
But he sure has injected some excitement in the year, hasn’t he? I hope that MLB will mandate that opposing pitchers have to throw hanging curveballs to A-Rod once in a while, to wipe the record off the books ASAP.
There are people who ragged on Marty Brodeur when he busted Bernie Parents’ record for most regular season NHL games.
Seasons are longer and ties have been done away with, so is Marty’s new record legitimate? The argument is a bit different than the one with Bonds’ home run record, but the spirit of the argument is the same.
I think that, regardless of how history remembers him or how he achieved the goal, he did, in fact achieve the goal. He has hit more home runs than Hank Aaron and, by that regard, deserves to hold the record. Sports historians may criticize him for the duration of that record’s stand, but the man has accomplished something that no one else in the history of the world has done — he’s hit 756 MLB home runs.