So much for the rules!
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Food for thought if we hear people around the league puffing their chests about how Barry Bonds Broke The Rules™, courtesy of the AP:
That provision [of a contract that could give Alex Rodriguez more money from the Yankees if he breaks Barry Bonds' career HR record] must be drafted carefully because of Major League Rule 3 (b) (5), which states no contract shall be approved "if it contains a bonus for playing, pitching or batting skill or if it provides for the payment of a bonus contingent on the standing of the signing club at the end of the championship season."
Even with that, the commissioner's office allowed the Boston Red Sox in 2003 to give Curt Schilling a provision for a $2 million raise in a season following a World Series championship. Boston won the title the following year.
Way to hold yourselves up as the honest ones, guys. In 10 years are we going to hear about how Rodriguez and Schilling should be banned from baseball, because the league "looked the other way" on these contract rules violations?
Good link
by Neil Stevens
I admit this quote stuck out at me though:
No medicines were allowed, because he wanted the Babe’s body to do its own work.
That implies there were medicinal options that were open to other athletes in Ruth's position, heh.
great read
Let this Henry Aaron defender make a few statements.
Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player of all-time. Its not close. Skill, numbers and championships.
Aaron's records deserve great respect for several reasons: what he endured due to race at the time, his consistency over time and the pitchers era he did it thru.
more later
ps
I think barry is in the top 7 despite everything
will get some great links on this if I still have
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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Whoa Now
by Alberta
Ricky Henderson was the greatest of all time.
Just ask him.
The numbers after age - LINK
by gamecock
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/08/MNBONDSCHART.DTL&type=chart
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
www.fred08.com
I'm not seeing the connection here...
by drothgery
Bonds took performance enhancing drugs. A-Rod and Schilling might have slightly dubious contracts. Aren't we right-wingers supposed to avoid making dubious moral equivalencies?
and....your point is what Neil?
" Got to love the Lord for making things like that."
Morally Compromised
Whitlock echoes Neil on Bonds - LINK
by gamecock
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/363299.html
excerpt
"Posted on Thu, Nov. 15, 2007
Bonds indictment doesn’t get at the problem
By JASON WHITLOCK
He had the option of telling the truth.
Jason Giambi did, and weathered the fan and media abuse and went back to playing baseball.
Barry Bonds, indicted Thursday for perjury and obstruction of justice, could’ve told BALCO investigators that he knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs. Yes, the consequences for such transparency would’ve been more significant for Bonds than Giambi, but there would be no criminal charges, no potential loss of freedom.
If Barry goes to jail, it’s because he chose 756 over freedom. Vanity short-circuited his common sense.
He could’ve copped to everything when the investigators interviewed him years ago and disappeared like Mark McGwire.
Bonds already had enormous wealth. A legacy, an important one, in baseball was already secured.
He wanted baseball’s most hallowed record, and he wanted it untarnished, so, in my opinion, he manipulated the truth.
He didn’t have to. I’ve never pitied Bonds, and I don’t today, even though he’s facing charges that could conceivably land him in jail for 30 years.
What I’ve always rejected is the silly notion that bringing down Bonds would somehow cleanse baseball and the sports world. It doesn’t. It doesn’t even begin the process. It does just the opposite.
The prosecution of Barry Bonds simply gives Bud Selig and all the other owners of professional sports franchises another fig leaf to hide their culpability in America’s steroids arms race."
READ it all
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
www.fred08.com
http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2006/edition_04-30-2006/Babe_Ruth
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
www.fred08.com