Top 5 reasons you can't blame Barry Bonds... ...for being Barry Bonds Very interesting piece by ESPN Classic on Major League Baseball's home run leader
Пікірлер: 1 100
@butchdabayboss70733 жыл бұрын
I sent Barry bonds a letter when I was like 12 years old and I was sent an autographed baseball card back. So I don't care what anyone says. That was one of the dopest moments as a kid. He was my hero in baseball
@prilljazzatlanta50702 жыл бұрын
Glad someone actually gives him credit for not always being a jerk. You probably approached him and expressed yourself well. When people talk about players not giving a kid an autograph they dont mention that the guy was trying to eat dinner and that the selfish parents put them up to it without coaching them on a dignified way to do it.
@turtle19dad2 жыл бұрын
He was a hall of famer before PED's in my book.
@guru_basketball_kiero2 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool
@vladimirjackson1272 Жыл бұрын
You seem to be telling this same story on every post cause, you said the same shyt on a José Conseco post! Did they BOTH sign your cards and respond to your letters🤔
@AVar5 Жыл бұрын
@@vladimirjackson1272 i knew i wasn’t crazy i was like damn that sounds familiar lol
@DaffyDuck0075 жыл бұрын
Let's see, Barry Bonds' accomplishments without steroids: Still MLB's only 500/500 man Still MLB's only 400/400 man Still 3x MVP minimum Still MLB's 2nd 40/40 man Still 14x All Star Still MLB player of the 90s Still 8x Gold Glover Still holds an NL batting title Still MLB's first intentionally walked batter with bases loaded. Still most walked batter in history. The list goes on... Cooperstown is a joke until Bonds gets in.
@joejoecap.1815 жыл бұрын
excellent breakdown!
@joseornelas17185 жыл бұрын
Cheating ups all your stats. If one pop fly a week goes out you move from .250 hitter to .300 with 24 homers. Which was like Palmeiros progression. Instead of flattening your swing and being a contact hitter, you shoot up and your undercut becomes dingers.
@Tlk-zg5ye5 жыл бұрын
without steroids he would do none of this besides the batting title and 40/40 club if that was even without roids cause he was said to have started in 97 but it could of been sooner for all we know he was a slap hitter with speed and average power maybe he makes 400 with his normal body but all thee walks records where cause of roids and who says he gets any of those mvps or that many all star games without his power very bad logic man
@patrickdussault5 жыл бұрын
If sabermetrics had been as mainstream in the 90s as they are today, Bonds would have, or at least should have, won 7 MVPs prior to his alleged PED years, based on Wins Above Replacement. He's the best player ever and it's not particularly close.
@mptness43895 жыл бұрын
He was actually the 5th to be intentionally walked with the bases loaded, but, yes he needs to be in Cooperstown.
@jamestiscareno43874 жыл бұрын
Barry Bonds is THE most dangerous hitter to ever step into the batter's box, EVER.
@chrisf88552 жыл бұрын
No, the steroids were.
@collinexner69572 жыл бұрын
Yet zero rings and a whole bunch of roids
@chiniechinchen2 жыл бұрын
there was one year brady anderson was the most feared hitter
@bboyrobotic66962 жыл бұрын
@@chrisf8855 you obviously don’t know anything about baseball to say that. Steroids don’t teach you how to swing a bat period. That’s as stupid as thinking somebody thinking they can take steroids barely workout and come out looking like Arnold or 7x Mr.Olympia Ronnie Coleman. No you have to put the work in to practice technique.
@bboyrobotic66962 жыл бұрын
@@collinexner6957 you obviously know nothing about baseball saying that. You got the wrong sport go watch basketball. This isn’t a sport we’re one person can take over the game.
@ableseaman3525 жыл бұрын
Barry Bonds was highly upset at the media for the treatment of his father, Bobby Bonds who replaced Willie Mays. Despite being the only player of his time, only to be surpassed by his son Barry on the 400 home runs and 400 steals, yet the media ripped him for strikeouts and whatever comparisons one should not even make with Willie Mays. It ruined Bobby's family life and drove him to drink. Steroids was legal in baseball, take out 3/4 of who has been inducted in the Hall of fame for steroid use in the last several years. I never thought of him as a jerk though you sports writers who possibly played little league baseball are real jerks!
@joejoecap.1815 жыл бұрын
you nailed it! he also didn't trust the media as well because of how they treated his godfather Willie Mays as well. The press is a bunch of sycophants. Barry also didn't have all the big corporate sponsors protecting his image a la Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods - both of those guys are amoral assholes but the press had to suck up to them. Barry never sold out. Say one thing about him, he was authentic and no BS. My brother and I just met him personally at a Golden State Warrior game and this cat couldn't have been more sincere and amiable. He was calling the media a bunch of liars long before we are all (those of us that have IQ's above room temperature) now seeing how blatantly obvious how right he how right he was.
@rlucas73745 жыл бұрын
These comments might be relevant if he wasn't an asshole to his teammates as well.
@delmasblack40285 жыл бұрын
I had the same experience and I met him twice 15 yrs apart and he was the same both times. I met him during BP prior to Pac Bell Opening up. They were doing team workouts and no one other than the construction personnel were there. He talked to us about hitting and changing his swing for the new park. How he felt about it and more. Then after 10 mins or more he daid bye and ran off. The next time at my sons football game. He graduated from the same high school (Lynn Swan, Craig Jeffries. Tom Brady) and he was personable there as well. You'd be tired of living in a fishbowl as well if you had his life. He's seen from a child with his father and then lived only to be told the same thing he saw and expeienced by the greatest baseball player ever, Willie Mays.
@travisway10304 жыл бұрын
I agree - remove all steroid cheaters from baseball, especially those who lied about using it if you think it was “legal” it was not. It was not legal for your local gym gorilla and it wasn’t legal for superstar athletes.
@joemarshall42264 жыл бұрын
@@delmasblack4028 Great post. Except Willie wasn't the greatest player ever. he was great, and entertaining...but not the top
@Sweetdaddy4154 жыл бұрын
Barry Bonds is my favorite MLB player of all time. People lie, numbers dont. He needs to be in the Hall of Fame.
@ibringthepain243 жыл бұрын
@mr fantastic then they need to take a lot of people out
@dontrellmayfieldjr28682 жыл бұрын
@mr fantastic actually they do have cheaters in the Hall of Fame including steroid users
@carlfrye15662 жыл бұрын
@@ibringthepain24 No argument on that.
@robbielewis4740 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, He lied to congress! LOL
@tonyarceneaux286 Жыл бұрын
Even though he took drugs
@Shootskas3 жыл бұрын
The fact that the media hate him makes me like him even more.
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
He was a cheater
@raisethejollyroger58913 жыл бұрын
Found the Astros fan
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
@@Uknowjusticemill He admitted it
@johnlampros90612 жыл бұрын
He stole Hank Aaron’s record.
@scottdavis54994 жыл бұрын
Bonds grew up watching how Mays and his father were treated by the writers. It made him wary of being to open. He let his on field performance do the talking for him.
@TheBatugan774 жыл бұрын
When Willie moved to San Francisco, he wasn't allowed to buy a house wherever he wanted. When he did anyway, someone tossed a rock (or brick) through his window). It wasn't just reporters.
@gameislife30812 жыл бұрын
Exactly my thought
@kidmack35562 жыл бұрын
Do you hear these writers? "Wille Mays treated people like dirt" MAYS?, treated people like dirt?... And it doesn't surprise me that our own local writers were the ones to try to assassinate Bonds... Dickey, Ratto etc. were all a bunch of pot bellied envious twerps. I used read or hear what they had to say, and they were always negative, bordering on toxic.
@syourke3 Жыл бұрын
Bonds wasn’t even born yet when Willie Mays was playing! You have no idea what you’re talking about, do you? And when was Mays ever dissed by the press? Never!
@tulrid7550 Жыл бұрын
@S Y Jeez you arent very bright. Bonds was alive when willie played. And you act as if the internet doesn't exist to watch older games. 🙄
@flame-sky71483 жыл бұрын
This is so dated, you know why. Mike Piazza admitted to using andro in his own book. Bagwell admitted to using andro to the Houston Chronicle. Now they both stopped using after the 98 season, but guess what. They are in baseball's hall of fame. Great job writers, way to play the hypocrite. But they leave someone like Fred McGriff (no suspicion) out when he played the same position as Bagwell during the same era. Is Bagwell a HoFer and Piazza, sure but so is McGriff.
@HenryPPMN2 жыл бұрын
The biggest hypocrites in the world. I could talk for days about this. The baseball writers not putting Barry in the HOF should be a criminal offense
@flame-sky71482 жыл бұрын
I could care less if Bonds get in, his legend will grow like Shoeless Joe if he doesn't get it. They will have to keep writing about it year after year. But i care about what I saw on the field, and that's more important than a museum. I am more upset about Fred McGriff not being in who has numbers comparable to Jeff Bagwell. He has more HR, RBI, H, TB and a WS ring to top it off. They had the same number of silver sluggers and all star appearances and with McGriff there wasn't any suspicion of PEDs. But I care more for Pete Rose in the HoF, than Bonds, because look at all these gambling betting shows on tv right now. put him in as a player not a manager1
@CYMotorsport Жыл бұрын
Dude what are you talking about ? The EXACT same conversations were happening with these players despite andro being over the counter. It was Bonds continued use . Like don’t baseball fans know what Balco actually was? Not to mention, you even implying Bagwell is in the same convo is actually pretty absurd tbh. He’s got a golden glove, only 1st basemen to ever hit 400 home runs and steal 200 bags, and hit over .300 the same amount of times in 4 less seasons. Hit hitting numbers are better on aggregate in 1000 fewer plate appearances. Not to mention when you typed this, it was being discussed already Fred getting in. And he was actually inducted.
@ozzyozzy22073 жыл бұрын
I am from Pittsburgh and saw Barry play from the beginning he’s the best player I ever saw and I saw Clemente as a child .
@travisjacobson69985 жыл бұрын
Miss early 2000s ESPN.. this show, the show with the comedian twins going over random 70s sports, stump the Schwab and of course PTI and ATH
@freeparking3013 жыл бұрын
Cheap Seats was awesome!
@GlassHalfFull103 жыл бұрын
Stump the Schwab, PTI, ATH. All classics
@ryanhill69533 жыл бұрын
Jim Rome is burning 🔥
@saongpark24233 жыл бұрын
I am not a huge Bond fan but I truly believes he is one of the greatest player ever and he deserves to be in HOF.
@patrickbooth50915 жыл бұрын
Wow this is dated lol. The lance Armstrong bit cracked me up
@calebadams82685 жыл бұрын
...... and the Enron sign around the 1 minute mark.
@DaComebakKid5 жыл бұрын
Still relevant regarding the reaction and outrage of both allegations towards both athletes during that time.
@TeamHeapMI5 жыл бұрын
@@calebadams8268 that caught my eye too, I thought to myself, "wonder if anyone else noticed it" didn't take long to find a comment.
@joshdomke51255 жыл бұрын
@@___meph___4547 he still looks exactly like that
@lightaces4 жыл бұрын
No doubt. The parallels between them is remarkable, though Bonds would have been there without the doping, and Lance probably wouldn't have ever been more than an inspirational footnote if he had ridden clean.
@Kingbossdon3 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite Baseball players of all-time he struck fear into your heart when he was up at bat
@vincentdizon36145 жыл бұрын
Number 1 reason to not blame Bonds is that so many pitchers were also juicing that you could arguably say that he was just trying to adapt to his times and to the new methods being used by his fellow competitors, especially the pitchers.
@jakejohansen18895 жыл бұрын
Barry Bonds at bat from the 90's onward was the closest I'll ever get to what it would've been like to watch Ted Williams at bat. Barry Bonds' plate discipline was just awesome.
@lukehauser11822 жыл бұрын
Ted didn't juice
@bboyrobotic66962 жыл бұрын
@@lukehauser1182 juice doesn’t teach you how to swing a bat just like steroid doesn’t give you a body like Thor’s in the new movie love and thunder. I you have to put in work meaning a lot of practicing your swinging technique.
@steveyoung6317 Жыл бұрын
@@lukehauser1182 how do you know ? You people don’t know what those guys did..🤣
@joemarshall42265 жыл бұрын
Look, the truth is that the media treats players like sh*t. Barry was a guy who didn't stand for it. He gave back what they gave him. As far as his relationship with his teammates goes, he was tough to get along with, but when you can hit like that, I'll put up with it.
@michaelgray18034 жыл бұрын
Go to work you do your job I'll do mine we don't have to be friends
@dontrellmayfieldjr28683 жыл бұрын
The media are treating athletes like s*** for years.. just like as example they did like name the late Kobe Bryant
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
He was a cheater
@fivehundrediq52123 жыл бұрын
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 In Baseball everybody cheats it’s just a matter of who gets caught
@operasinger21262 жыл бұрын
What team wouldn't want Bonds?
@davidmayberry31905 жыл бұрын
Imagine Barry's numbers if he had been pitched to, he might have hit 100 HR's in a season.
@davidmayberry31905 жыл бұрын
@Nill Gddy yeah, I've never seen anybody better.
@faceones4 жыл бұрын
I still say hank should still have record with steroids scandal but no doubt he was a great hitter
@paulk63994 жыл бұрын
Imagine Barry’s numbers if he hadn’t taken HGH, he might have topped at 600 HR’s
@austi164 жыл бұрын
If hank aaron took roids he might have hit 1000 home runs
@westbronco90664 жыл бұрын
austi Hank may not have been on roids but he admitted he used peds so don’t try and treat him like he did it all on his own
@user-mm1iv4dy5b3 жыл бұрын
Barry Bonds didn't offend fans. I am one. Saw him play several times & he was a fun guy during games. He offended media assholes. That's it.
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
He offended fans by cheating
@HenryPPMN2 жыл бұрын
I grew up a Giants fan. He is why I came to love baseball the way I do today. The argument that he was “a poor role model” is BS. He didn’t offend the kids, he offended the stuffy baseball writers. Best player to ever do it
@lukehauser11822 жыл бұрын
Remind me of his friends among players?
@bboyrobotic66962 жыл бұрын
@@lukehauser1182 remind me what does that have to do with his style of play. You gonna tell me MJ is a nice guy no he isn’t but it’s ok but I couldn’t imagine having that amount of eyes in your life your entire life and neither do you.
@chrisf88552 жыл бұрын
Good ol' Barry Roids
@robert.m46764 жыл бұрын
He has always been one of my very favorite players! I never cared what others say bad about him he’s simply a great baseball player. My favorite players are from the Tigers. But after them it’s Barry Bonds.
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
He's a cheater
@aarondyer.pianist5 жыл бұрын
Looks like they filmed that in a Blockbuster Video.
@travisjacobson69985 жыл бұрын
ESPN Classic man
@td11585 жыл бұрын
you should see the later years of "top reasons you can't blame" the rooms the narrator would be in were even darker and sketchier.
@skankytrick5 жыл бұрын
What's Blockbuster Video?
@td11585 жыл бұрын
@@skankytrick its a place where you would go to rent then return movies for a small fee that went out of business because they refused to buy netflix or follow a similar business plan to netflix
@skankytrick5 жыл бұрын
@@td1158 I was trying to be facetious, but thanks for the explanation, lol.
@amanchabra89476 жыл бұрын
4:52 where Jeff Pearlman says "Bonds never lifted a team to a higher level" is the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard. It gets completely refuted at the 9 minute mark! Bonds was RIDICULOUS in the 2002 postseason!
@kennylevine11506 жыл бұрын
Bonds almost single handedly made those early 2000s Giants teams championship contenders. Sure, guys like Jeff Kent and Jason Schmidt were solid players but without Bonds those teams win maybe 70-75 games.
@jsXanatos6 жыл бұрын
the documentary meant up until that point dude, it meant pre-2002. hello? i got that. why didnt you
@jsXanatos6 жыл бұрын
theyre talking about the bad postseasons he had with the pirates
@amanchabra89476 жыл бұрын
jsXanatos I did get that. But the way the soundbite is edited, they make it sound like a definitive statement, which, as I mentioned above, is refuted later in the piece.
@patrickgray56336 жыл бұрын
We all know his Giants years after 98 are under suspicion of roids. We know hes a great player but much of the Giants numbers after 98 are tainted as a Reds fan I know in 1990 he was a choking dog.
@baileysmith47444 жыл бұрын
so basically i learnt nothing from this and still see Barry Bonds as the greatest hitter of all time
@leecowell81654 жыл бұрын
not only the greatest hitter but the greatest player as well.
@baileysmith47444 жыл бұрын
Lee Cowell, i would agree as Bonds was winning Gold Gloves and has a lot of stolen bases as well as his hitting titles, but it is debatable with Babe Ruth who also pitched as well as fielded and hit
@zachmeyn34602 жыл бұрын
@@baileysmith4744 pre-integration is a bigger advantage than roids
@erickgabriel3603 Жыл бұрын
@@baileysmith4744 based on that othani is the greatest of all time?
@baileysmith4744 Жыл бұрын
@@erickgabriel3603. how? Ohtani has only 5 seasons, not even 100 career starts, and is nowhere near the hitter either player was
@polonovey26805 жыл бұрын
Most Feared player of all time
@ericclaeyborn70084 жыл бұрын
Yea... I heard, that the body odor caused by steroids is unbearable...
@joemarshall42264 жыл бұрын
Look at those walk totals...even Greg Maddux said that Bonds was the easiest player to pitch to...he was so much better than everyone else, the choice was simple...walk him.
@richg41896 жыл бұрын
Being a jerk should not be part of the discussion. Ty Cobb was a jerk and so were many in the Hall. Bonds absolutely was the best I ever saw. The question is did he do steroids? Or does that even matter when 100’s all did. Caught or not the numbers across the game were so ready ridiculous. To me the commissioner and baseball knew everyone was juicing. Shame on them.
@billygowhoop6 жыл бұрын
I agree, Bonds is unquestionably the best to hold a bat. Just look at his single season onbase plus slugging numbers, unreal. I do think there's a difference between greatness and being the best player. Like Derek Jeter will probably have a greater legacy than Barry because the narrative of Jeter's career is much more appealing than Bonds'.
@AE-vu3nt6 жыл бұрын
Rich G he wasn't a jerk, the media was.
@deernats6 жыл бұрын
A E )
@ntr70306 жыл бұрын
This. Rec. +1. All day. Best ever, bar none. Not gonna change until someone better comes along.
@nosajdrewz93456 жыл бұрын
The important part is he was a HOFmer before he bulked up.
@notoriouseagle10743 жыл бұрын
If the media didn't treat his dad like shit, maybe he'd respect them more.
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
He was a cheater
@ZeroCrystal3 жыл бұрын
Maybe generally not being a dick is an easy way to endear one's self to the media. Sounds like deflection to me.
@redpillfreedom6692 Жыл бұрын
Bonds brought it on himself by being an insufferable piece of shit. So insufferable his college teammates wanted him kicked off the team even though he was their best player. You can't get more cancerous than that. He was not a victim. Stop acting like he was.
@GaryMS5 жыл бұрын
I’ve meet Barry a few times he was nice to me and signed autographs. Notice most people who hate him are media and we know how fair they are..... lol
@Gl66195 жыл бұрын
Gary Smith I actually met him once. I had premium seats to the 1992 NLCS game 7 @ Fulton country stadium, I also had access to the tunnel leading to the visitors clubhouse. After the Braves won that dramatic game to clinch the pennant, I ventured out of curiosity to the Pirates clubhouse. Their was literally no security stopping me, basically somebody with no credentials from walking right up to the door of the clubhouse. I could tell they were all hurting so I figured I would just say “nice try” or something to that effect and just move on. I saw Gary Redus and Jim Rooker in tears, then I saw Bonds talking to someone, no tears in his eyes, I patted him on the back and said “good try”, he said “thanks” then went back to his conversation with whoever he was talking about. I thought for some unknown stranger who unexpectedly walks up to him he was a cordial as you’d expect in that situation. I also remember feeling like “this guy isn’t about the team at all. I also remember seeing a light skinned black woman on sitting on a car, by herself as I was headed back from their clubhouse, I’m almost sure it was Halle Berry, who was dating Dave Justice at the time.
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
How sad the cheater is disrespected
@chrisf88552 жыл бұрын
Nah, he's a total jerk and egomaniac.
@DB_Cooper.5 жыл бұрын
I forgot Barry Bonds talks like s mix of Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson.
@MontesinoPR5 жыл бұрын
Loooooool
@mattandersen27865 жыл бұрын
Add in some Jack Nicklaus also haha
@RayMagic121925 жыл бұрын
Obviously the steroids made everything stronger for him except his voice, he has a wierd feminine voice
@downtownbobbybrown62373 жыл бұрын
So funny . Was his voice always like that ?
@troycromwell52705 жыл бұрын
Idc who you are....you get intentionally walked with the bases loaded....that's respect....he needs to be in the HOF
@ericclaeyborn70084 жыл бұрын
If he did no steroids, he wouldn't have been in the position to be intentionally walked, because he wouldn't have become the home run hitter that the steroids turned him into.
@ibringthepain243 жыл бұрын
@@ericclaeyborn7008 hater
@bondsgoat252 жыл бұрын
@@ericclaeyborn7008 the famous bases loaded intentional walk was before steroids dumbass!
@vladimirjackson1272 Жыл бұрын
Barry's face when he realized they were walking him with the bases loaded is priceless!
@virgiliodavis67594 жыл бұрын
2020, I still belive he is the best ever. Baseball man.
@MrBarberboy423 жыл бұрын
Imagine what they would have to pay him now... He'd have the first billion dollar contract.
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
He's a cheater
@kalebdegroot78252 жыл бұрын
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 Umm yeah, thats sports man. Everyone cheats, few get caught.
@EssexAggiegrad20112 жыл бұрын
@@kalebdegroot7825 No
@kylekelly74345 жыл бұрын
Top Five reasons you CAN blame Brian Kinney for that haircut.
@jm215x45 жыл бұрын
Kyle Kelly lmaoo his shit looks like one of those old school leather helmets
@dominate48913 жыл бұрын
The best player I have ever seen in person play ball. He was so much better then anyone else on the field it was shocking. I thought as a young kid this is what is was like to see Ruth, Mays, Dimaggio, Williams, Clemente Etc.If a player like that is not in the HOF which is supposed to house the best players why have it? It’s not the hall that houses the players that are nicest to the media.
@gulmanrahat6559 Жыл бұрын
They left him out becausse of steroids.
@syourke3 Жыл бұрын
Bonds is a total asshole but that’s not why he’s not in the HOF. He cheated by using steroids for years. That’s why he’s not in the Hall. And never will be. The fact that he was an asshole doesn’t help his case.
@guccidonbuzzflightyear44405 жыл бұрын
I love how he treated the media
@lilken214 жыл бұрын
I do too. Fuck the media! Always playing victims.
@kingad88694 жыл бұрын
@M lol what damage was caused? Dramatic much?
@TrumpsEarBandage4 жыл бұрын
Media is the enemy of the people
@joemarshall42264 жыл бұрын
@M Preach it, Brother. Divide and conquer. Pawns of the ruling cartel
@dontrellmayfieldjr28684 жыл бұрын
This is why Barry Bonds don't want to kiss the media's ass.
@timothymoelk13464 жыл бұрын
I LOVE YOU BARRY #1 PLAYER EVER SF GIANTS
@EssexAggiegrad20113 жыл бұрын
Cheater
@arandmusrnam4 жыл бұрын
The fact he batted .471 during the 2002 WS with 4 hr with .700 obp 1.294 slg and an insane 1.994 OPS all while being walked half his at bats doesn’t sound like he didn’t produce in the postseason. Reporters sound a bit biased to me.
@redpillfreedom6692 Жыл бұрын
That was his only good postseason out of seven. That's a consistent pattern of failing to produce. And even the one time he did he was juicing.
@damienbonner5 жыл бұрын
How can a guy be guilty of taking steroids if he never tested positive for taking them?
@mcdonoghrahloh4595 жыл бұрын
Damien Bonner And they weren't illegal or banned in baseball at the time
@JayeK475 жыл бұрын
Bonds admitted to the BALCO grand jury that he took them. He lied and qualified it by saying unknowingly and was duly tried and convicted of perjury for it.
@mcdonoghrahloh4595 жыл бұрын
JayeK47 Cream & Clear.Ask Greg Anderson
@redpillfreedom6692 Жыл бұрын
And I'm sure Al Capone was only guilty of tax evasion.
@jasonmonto44455 жыл бұрын
he was a hall of famer before the steroids. I've had a love for baseball my whole life. I will say he's one of the best I ever saw. he got older, he still wanted to compete at a high level. same with A Rod. they did what they thought they needed to do. it's a shame bonds, Rodriguez, and Clemens won't have their day at the podium at the HOF. steroids don't help you hit a curve ball.
@ericclaeyborn70084 жыл бұрын
If he was a Hall of Famer before he took the steroids, then why would he take them and ruin his chances for the Hall of Fame? That is a lot worse than Pete Rose betting on his team to win games, and he's still not in the Hall of Fame.
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
They help you hit a curve ball (or any other type of pitch) farther...that is the entire point dude. = more homeruns!
@listo3933 жыл бұрын
He did what he thought he needed to do, and now must accept the consequences
@brandonenga6 жыл бұрын
Old video? Because that 02 post season was amazing for this guy. What bonds has done is marvelous, before peds, marvelous. To be enhanced, when other were also enhanced, and to be that much better than everyone.... open and shut case for the hall. I mean greenies for hank, corked bats for the rbi king. Come one writers, get out of your feelings. You disgrace that hall....
@albundy41635 жыл бұрын
bonds would disgrace the hall and you do right here.
@td11585 жыл бұрын
@@albundy4163 bonds has too much skill and accolades compared to those clowns in the hall. they need to start a whole new hall of fame for only bonds to be in until someone else that good at baseball comes along, then they can be in it too. but until then, barry is in a class of his own and as much as you hate it, its the god damn truth with some cheese on it.
@alvinreynolds91695 жыл бұрын
Being from the Bay Area and life long Giants fan. The ‘94 strike season broke my heart as a fan. Baseball is in our blood if your a fan of the game and you understand what how deeply the love reaches. McGwire, Sosa, Clemens, Palmiero, Bonds and so many more didn’t destroy the game by their actions. As a fan I enjoyed that era which brought back a joy and fun for the game. Old men either write tragedies or triumphs with their words. The Game triumphed and the love has returned. Bonds was our Achilles beautiful and flawed and the ‘02 season was his master work.
@albundy41635 жыл бұрын
@@td1158 your right. bonds should be in the hall of toilets, because he is full of shit. he is an ass in his own mind and ours. he was not voted into the all century team. why? they new then he started to roid up. he would of hit his 550 homers and still made the hall, its the records he wouldnt of broken. he is a loser and if you feel otherwise so are you
@albundy41635 жыл бұрын
bonds hit almost 500 homers after age of 30, 350 after age 35. giants lost to the weakest world series team to ever win the 02 angels. not one good players on that angel team. not one hall of famer. only the 88 dodgers compare. so bonds doesnt deserve jack shit. palmerio hit 3,000 hits, over 500 homers , lots of rbi, great defender. he is not in...complain about that
@Twelvehourpowernap4 жыл бұрын
There's an asterisks on the Hall of Fame until they get this guy in
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
He will never get in, nor any of the steroid users with any records.
@RobandDaveLPs3 жыл бұрын
He should be in the hall of fame don't care what you or anyone else thinks even hank aaron says Barry bonds should be n the Hall of Fame
@dontrellmayfieldjr28683 жыл бұрын
@@RobandDaveLPs That is 100% true. We all do respect..Hank Aaron did consider Barry Bonds as the Home Run King. If you going to say that steroid users never be in the Hall of Fame? I think a lot of people really forget that Mike Piazza Jeff Bagwell and Pudge Rodriguez did made it to the hall of fame because they're steroid users.. The only biggest mistake is the media made it happened.
@oceaser69775 жыл бұрын
He had the most perfect swing. Compact, powerful and majestic. Not loopy like Griffey’s
@jayden86365 жыл бұрын
Get out. Right now.
@capralean6 жыл бұрын
I think that it is reasonable to suspect that he started steroids because of the Summer of 1998.
@nikosuavesworldofsportsmusic6 жыл бұрын
capralean As an objective Barry Bonds fan I've always said the exact same thing because he probably couldn't believe that 2 obviously geeked out of their minds on roids inferior players in Mark McGuire & Sammy Sosa was getting so much media acclaim that he said to himself ok I'm going to use roids myself & instead of hitting 70 or 66 home runs like McGuire & Sosa I'm going to hit 90 home runs but due to him being walked an historic amount of times he settled for 73 home runs.
@AE-vu3nt6 жыл бұрын
capralean well, he didn't. 0 evidence.
@Gottiline_Ace5 жыл бұрын
@@AE-vu3nt and you are wrong. There was plenty of evidence. And that's why people hate him. Mark and Sammy fessed up and moved on. He's still a narcissistic sociopath like always. Fuck Barry Bonds
@joemarshall42265 жыл бұрын
Bill James said in his 1998 book that by the time Barry was retired (assuming he was on a downward spiral at that point, due to his age) that he would be ranked in the top 5 in baseball history due to his domination of the league for so long, and his abilities in hitting, walks, fielding and base running. Statistically, he should have had six or seven MVPs BEFORE he ever took steroids! @@KHLB516
@joemarshall42265 жыл бұрын
Canseco said 80% of players were juicing in the early 90s...by the late 90s? Maybe more. I knew an insider who saw it was 90%. Pitchers even more than hitters......@Trzn
@deernats6 жыл бұрын
Bonds is the best player who was abused severely by sports reporters and by people who judge a person by hearsay and accusations that were never proved or substantiated in a court of law or even a simple blood test ! He has broken every HR record plus his many many other baseball records have set him heads above other great players, but people who don’t know better or just follow the rumors of a bad press still hate the man . They said in this story about him that the Giants were just counting the days until Bonds was through! It sure doesn’t seem to have turned out that way since they have placed his plaque on the wall and now they’re retiring his number . It seems the Giants couldn’t be prouder of what Barry Bonds has done for the Them! He will always be the Best Baseball Player that I have had the pleasure of watching play the game!
@sirissac2346 жыл бұрын
Barry Bonds broke every record BECAUSE HE WAS USING PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS. Had he not used them, his body wouldn't have lasted as long, he wouldn't have had the ability to easily hit the Home Runs he was breaking records with. Barry Bonds was a cheater. He used performance enhancing drugs which brought him an extended career, higher numbers, better contracts, better endorsement deals. The records that he broke were by men who did not have to cheat to get them. Barry Bonds STOLE their legacy. Barry Bonds lied to and cheated the fans out of a clean game. Barry Bonds sullied the sport of baseball. And he did all of this having already achieved numbers and a career great enough to be a first ballot Hall of Famer. F Barry Bonds. He deserves his legacy of shame. And this is from a former fan of his.
@patrickbooth50915 жыл бұрын
Look at bonds’ body when he left Pittsburg compared to when he retired. He took steroids
@Tlk-zg5ye5 жыл бұрын
Top 20 before the roids is a joke man top 100 ya ok i could see that but he would never of come close to top 20 without the roids carrying him hus last 10+ years playing
@deernats5 жыл бұрын
Sirisaac Newton pure hearsay with not a stitch of prove! He didn’t cheat anybody, he was the best player that could do it all ! Nolan Ryan was a old man by baseball standards should we take away his no hitter records?
@alexfranklin35025 жыл бұрын
J.P. ,'Mingo His head at 40 was twice the size it was at 28. That’s not hearsay. That’s genetically impossible without the assistance of steroids
@vladimirjackson1272 Жыл бұрын
For everyone that claims he was a bad person, there are 100 other people for everyone person that loved the guy! Everyone expects athletes to be these amazing great character guys but, that is NOT a requirement for being the best athlete in the world!
@TheBoozer19755 жыл бұрын
I miss Bonds and the 600 ft homeruns! There needs to be a PED Hall of Fame! They made the game fun and existing!
@cmoneyno54 жыл бұрын
@Daniel Ppa Natural?? buddy... cheating and PED use has always been a part of baseball..
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
No, they didn't exist until the 80's. Everyone was natural before that.
@cmoneyno54 жыл бұрын
@@michaelhassler7446 lol... steroids been around since the beginning... it wasn't illegal in baseball until after Bonds hit 73 homers.. so fuck it..
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
Dude they didn't have steroids in the beginning of baseball and Bonds will never get into the HOF
@cmoneyno54 жыл бұрын
@@michaelhassler7446 Okay buddy I have ocean front property in Nebraska to sell you if you believe they weren't cheating in the "good ol days"
@heybro61052 жыл бұрын
Barry is the greatest baseball player of all-time.
@tomd60535 жыл бұрын
This was a good show, they’ve really gotten away from what they were, sad af.
@jgreico113 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this clip, Please never delete it off KZbin.
@SgtBooker443 жыл бұрын
Barry Bonds resented the way media treated his dad, who was in the shadow of Mays and McCovey.
@taxi6155 жыл бұрын
I grew up watching Bonds, Sosa, Griffey and McGwire....so many other 90's greats and Bonds got the shaft media absolutely killed his chances at any greatness. Pushed him and when he lashed out they crucified him for it...I don't like the Roids era but you still have to work to get that good besides these players were all great before using (not saying all the players used) Bonds was a hitting monster and its sad so many clubs cheated the man out of hitting with all those walks. The league should have stepped in to stop this disgraceful treatment. after the 90's I stopped watching baseball as the sport is a joke baseball died in the mid 2000's today we have half the talent twice the greed and loads of whiners. All players care about is $$$$ it's ridiculous the amounts these kids are getting and all for 1/4 of the talent all the players before them had. This is why baseball is dying attendance is at an all time low all over the league there are teams in so much trouble they could be AAA teams. I miss the old days
@lukehauser11822 жыл бұрын
please don't mention Griffey Jr with those juicers
@jonathangagne5255 жыл бұрын
Just like Ty Cobb; great - inducted 1st into the Hall of Fame but, never won a World Series. & y? It is a team effort.
@michaelgray18034 жыл бұрын
Bonds didn't pitch
@michaelgray18034 жыл бұрын
@Angry Grizzly so you say
@joemarshall42264 жыл бұрын
@Angry Grizzly Cobb and either Speaker or Hornsby were accused of throwing games on purpose, but the case was dropped because baseball couldn't endure another scandal after 1919. There was at least as much evidence to convict them as there is to say Bonds took steroids. And there was no clear rule against steroids at that time...plus 80-90% of players, including pitchers, were using them. Baseball ahd along history of tolerating, and even encouraging, drug use. Pitcher Tom Hose said that steroids were around in the 60s when he played, but were called by other names....
@dontrellmayfieldjr28684 жыл бұрын
@Angry Grizzly Ty Cobb was a racist and he probably killed the person in 1912 in Detroit
@flame-sky71483 жыл бұрын
I know they never say that about Ted Williams, but guess what he's, the best pure "hitter that ever lived."
@horse-45986 ай бұрын
I never payed that much attention to the game when I was a little kid until barry came up to bat. Go giants!
@vancewoodruff6472 Жыл бұрын
3:32 beautifully put, more media personnel need to take notes. 4:14 the problem is you, writing how you feel instead of facts
@painterdood24845 жыл бұрын
And yet, 12 years after he left the game, (Still The Most Feared Hitter In All Of Baseball), the petty little writers with their little hurt feelings have made sure that Bonds isn’t in the Hall. HR Ball #756 is though. This whole era ruined the game for a lot of fans. And it’s the writers fault more than anything. NOT BARRY BONDS!
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
Writers don't enhance their writing abilities if they take steroids, but baseball players hit baseballs farther if they take steroids. Not sure how writers were responsible for baseball players choosing to do steroids?
@zachbut132 жыл бұрын
Bonds is objectively the best player to ever grace the field of baseball. We’ll have contenders in the coming years like Trout or Ohtani (if he stays healthy), and there are arguments for former greats (Mays, Ted Williams). He was a HOF player before he even signed with the Giants. He might suck as a human, and he also allegedly cheated, but so did everyone else at the time. And he was miles better than them. Should have been a 1st ballot HOFer; hopefully he gets in this year or next year with his last year of eligibility.
@phantom9in5 жыл бұрын
Barry Bonds was a HOF player BEFORE steroids. He didn't need them to get to the HOF, now he may never get in.
@ryanlaney36275 жыл бұрын
He did drugs on his own volition. So he should never get in.
@jackyoung97315 жыл бұрын
Whenever I think of the steroid era I think of Jose Cansecos quote; "anabolics make average players great, and great players incredible" and to me Barry was a great player turned greatest of all time by the juice. There's a reason why he's the 7 time MVP and the countless others that used aren't.
@copelandtenn5 жыл бұрын
Jack Young Please name the date of Barry Bonds’ failed drug test. We’re waiting. Oh, that’s right, Bonds never failed a drug test. Just a media witch hunt cause he didn’t kiss the media’s a.
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
I think there was a time when Lance Armstrong never failed a drug test either, there's ways to beat the test. Doesn't mean you didn't do it, just that you know how to get around it.
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
Shut up Eric, watch the Lance Armstrong movie starring Ben Foster. They knew how to beat the test.
@nathanrobinson10995 жыл бұрын
"we the media, the gatekeepers didn't like him". Hell, Griffey Jr. was also a bit of a jerk, but no one complains. Unless they assault you, or just absolutely 100% go out of their way to tirelessly berate you, then I could care less about a media person's feelings. Being in the media you get to say player X, has sucked, should be traded/suspended/fined/cut/retire... When it is thrown back at you many in the media turn around and cry foul.
@iamhungey123455 жыл бұрын
I know right? Often times the media would suggest the team to sign that certain player. If it doesn't work out, the media would crap on the team for signing the guy to begin with, despite being the ones to suggest it.
@joemarshall42264 жыл бұрын
They hated Ted Williams, too.
@SupplementalSense5 жыл бұрын
Does anyone remember Julian Edelman busted for PED use? The very next year he wins Superbowl MVP and there is not a single mention of it. Nobody has ever been treated the way Bonds has. Maybe Jon Jones, but he has had much bigger offenses like his hit-and-run. Barry was just not nice to the media.
@rlucas73745 жыл бұрын
And his teammates and coaches. The guy was just an asshole to everybody.
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
Football is not as much of a stats driven sport. The stats in baseball are how we determine greatness, and if your stats are overblown because you cheated, none of your stats count.
@joshuavandercook45794 жыл бұрын
Except Pete Rose.
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
Yes, Pete didn't cheat, just bet on baseball. I think he gets into the HOF when he can no longer bet on baseball. In other words, after he dies maybe.
@scshufran2514 жыл бұрын
Barry Bonds, plain and simple, was a CHOKER! When Barry Bonds played for the Pirates during the early 1990's, he obviously had MVP stats during the regular season, but, when it came time to demonstrate that talent in the playoffs he would go AWOL! The truest measure of greatness of any professional athlete in his chosen sport is "how did he perform when the stakes were at their highest"! Unfortunately, Barry Bonds would 'shrivel up and die' during the Post Season when his team needed him the most! For that very reason, he'll forever be labeled a "CHOKER" in the eyes of many Pirate fans!
@joemarshall42264 жыл бұрын
.433 career OBP in the post season. .503 slugging percentage. In over 200 at bats. Those are outstanding numbers.....
@MacKelvin3345 жыл бұрын
still eating off Barry #Goat
@jsXanatos6 жыл бұрын
best of all time, you know it, i know it
@patrickgray56336 жыл бұрын
Yeah at juicing
@jsXanatos6 жыл бұрын
might as well chalk up the majority of the league in those days then, barry did it because others were so clearly doing it imo
@jsXanatos6 жыл бұрын
think the best of all time at juicing would be conseco boy
@albundy41635 жыл бұрын
i dont know it.
@redpillfreedom6692 Жыл бұрын
@@jsXanatosIf everyone you knew was beating their wife, would you do it too? Or make excuses for someone who was?
@1Fasterblade5 жыл бұрын
It’s lonely at the top.. with every one of these reporters in awe of something they wish you couldn’t do.
@dukeon Жыл бұрын
Great documentary. Very fair on both sides. I’m a huge Giants fan and I loved the Bonds years, but I also know he was a prima donna (although he was very nice to my daughter whose ball he signed). As for being a jerk to the media, who cares?? Much of the media (not all) are a-holes themselves just looking for a negative story to write. Bonds was a lone wolf, an introvert, and a perfectionist and the media never understood him - they liked guys that smiled and danced for them like Sosa. Based on the numbers alone, _even before 2000_ , Barry should have been elected to the HOF on the first ballot. It’s a joke not having the most feared hitter of all time in a shrine where there a bunch of chumps like Rizzuto and Mazeroski who were only admitted because they won a lot of titles on dominant teams. And they were (wink wink) scrappy white guys who played the “right way”, whatever that means. Also I do think there was a degree of racism involved, and that desire to hate on a guy who was so obviously great AND confident. Some people forget that racism reared its ugly head a lot when Hank Aaron was chasing and then broke broke The Babe’s all time record.
@rosario5085 жыл бұрын
They need to bring this show back. I watched it religiously. The first subject they should cover is the top five reasons you can't blame the officials for the Saints losing to the Rams.
@Nhamp20005 жыл бұрын
Rams. But true. I'm sick of Saints fans complaining about the refs. They put themselves in position to get hosed by a bad call.
@rosario5085 жыл бұрын
@@Nhamp2000 Thanks for the correction. I'll fix it now.
@timmyasikin41777 ай бұрын
Wrong sports...
@markpritchard49016 жыл бұрын
As the years pass, the more I look at his peak years, the more I am amazed. If Secretariat was the Greatest horse ever, who can deny there has never been a more dominant athlete (doped or undoped) than Barry Bonds in the early 21st century. What he did is mindboggling even if you could suppose there is a drug (which there isn't) that improves your athletic ability 50%. What if a walk had advanced all baserunners one base (which would be a good rule for baseball to adopt by the way). He would have either hit 90 homers or hit .400, one or the other. What a transcendent player he truly was. Maybe not a nice guy, but certainly an historic baseball performer.
@parableproductionsvideo5 жыл бұрын
Whether or not a guy was likable to the press is a factor in determining whether or not a player was the best of all-time.
@redpillfreedom6692 Жыл бұрын
His postseason disappearing acts hurt his GOAT case. That's not the media's fault.
@CSDonohue114 жыл бұрын
Dude I love these. Takes me back to my teenage years.
@slaymyface13576 жыл бұрын
Anyone else think they should make a "5 reasons you cant blame joe jackson"
@mhks686 жыл бұрын
slaymyface135 Top 5 reasons you cant blame Ike Turner.
@EricAKATheBelgianGuy5 жыл бұрын
Definitely. I came up with several baseball lists on my own. One of my favorite ones was about 5 reasons why you can't blame the Brooklyn Dodgers for losing Roberto Clemente.
@TheBatugan775 жыл бұрын
They did...only it was the entire Black Sox team.
@brandonmorris98895 жыл бұрын
What about this one: Top five reasons you can't blame The 2004 New York Yankees for blowing a 3-0 in the ALCS?
@brandonmorris98895 жыл бұрын
Okay seriously. That just was a suggestion. That wasn't called for at all dude. You're being an a**hole and NO, I DON'T watch "gay anime videos" And I wasn't taking to you either. It was to slaymyface135
@haneefahson9735 жыл бұрын
Where the dirty test???🤣🤣🤣
@VinegarAutofill6 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I hated Barry Bonds. I thought he was a villain and a bully who shit all over the media because he knew they had to stand there and take it. I don't normally even care how players treat the media but there was something about Bonds that was more than just not liking cameras in his face, he made a point to be degrading.
@jsXanatos6 жыл бұрын
well yeah. the media degraded his dad all the time. dad was a drinker. they treated his dad like shit. why wouldnt he make it a point to be degrading after how they treated his dad
@bigpapipapa2566 жыл бұрын
The media was horrible to him they would do anything and everything to piss him off and get a good story think about greatest player in history yelled at the media and is a horrible guy that’s headline news every day
@mcdonoghrahloh4595 жыл бұрын
If you're a Black person,youre a dumb one
@LplusRatioplusNobodyCares3 ай бұрын
Lmao, number 1 aged like Wine with a bad cork
@nickt4235 жыл бұрын
Number 1 should be “Commissioner Bud Selig”. Baseball knew what was going on with the steroids, and they didn’t stop it.
@joemarshall42264 жыл бұрын
they encouraged it.
@dontrellmayfieldjr28683 жыл бұрын
Bud Seild got away with it Through the Years.. and he was in the Baseball Hall of Fame.... SMH
@freeparking3013 жыл бұрын
Bud was an enormous piece of shit. He was part of the owners collusion towards the players before he was commissioner. Then handpicked as a successor after the commissioners before him kept collusion around. When that scheme failed and the owners wanted to cry poor they had the labor stoppage in 1994. Yes the players went on strike but once you see how much money the owners screwed players out of before that strike it justifies their position somewhat. Especially with their next idea being a salary cap so they could just do collusion legally. (I’m not 100% a fan of guaranteed contracts though but that’s a story for another day.) Then Sellg just sat there and ignored the whole steroid scandal because of the owners needed the long ball to get butts back into the seats after the strike. I’m sure there’s other things I’m missing (someone would say not letting Pete Rose back into baseball though I can see both sides arguments on that one) but needless to say Bud blows.
@CrazyAboutVinylRecords5 жыл бұрын
The sports writers on this video have no clue how self-important, entitled, and arrogant they sound.
@mississippidamagereport57074 жыл бұрын
He wasn't proven guilty, #Bonds4Fame
@redpillfreedom6692 Жыл бұрын
And Al Capone was only convicted of tax fraud. Whoopie. His body transformation alone is all the proof needed.
@GoodTimesCardCollector5 жыл бұрын
Barry is so awesome!
@ericclaeyborn70084 жыл бұрын
He's an awesome cheater, and cheaters shouldn't be rewarded.
@fearthebeard19732 жыл бұрын
@@ericclaeyborn7008 this is the dumbest comment I have ever read “ hey u were already the greatest player ever but since u took steroids late in your career and became a baseball alien because the league refused to ban them now ur not the greatest “ I have a question for u Eric, are max scherzer Justin verlander and Clayton Keyshaw not the best pitchers of this era and are they also cheaters and should be banned from the hall of fame? Because they were the best for a long time then worse pitchers started using foreign substances and the league did nothing to stop them they started using foreign substances as well Are they non hall of fame worthy cheaters too Eric?
@dickhickey9095 жыл бұрын
barry bonds is responsible for barry bonds . so yeah , I can most definitely blame him
@td11585 жыл бұрын
and thats why he is loved
@DaComebakKid5 жыл бұрын
Both things can be true. "You're your own worst enemy" and "you're more likely than not of being a product of your environment". Can't absolve Selig and the MLB in general for the Steroid Era.
@dickhickey9095 жыл бұрын
@@DaComebakKid im not for absolving any of em..theyre all guilty, hang em !
@dickhickey9095 жыл бұрын
@@DaComebakKid and 1 more thing. Bonds played baseball a few hours a night 6 months a year. MLB was not his " environment "
@td11585 жыл бұрын
@@dickhickey909 he played that little and was still the primary attraction. really tells ya something.
@PhilAndersonOutside6 жыл бұрын
Well, at least in the long run he's not as bad as Armstrong.
@MikeProvocateur-tu2jl5 жыл бұрын
What backwards world do you live in where two guys make their greatest of fame from steroids? But you write, 'well, at least in the long run he's not as bad as Armstrong?! Who knows when Armstrong started taking them, and he were a great cyclist with or without steroids, like Barry were a great Baseball player with or without steroids. They both cheated. None of it is a lesser of two evils to decide from. They both were cheaters no matter what in reality.
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
There's a Lance Armstrong movie starring Ben Foster that tells the whole story. Lance was doing steroids from the get go, but really enhanced them after he got through his cancer.
@MrBarberboy423 жыл бұрын
Imagine what they would have to pay him now... He'd have the first billion dollar contract.
@ngc-fo5te3 жыл бұрын
No he wouldn't.
@thescatman50295 жыл бұрын
1) Willie Mays had this "Say, Hey" personality! You mean to tell me Willie had another side to him; an "entitled" side Bonds observed? 2) The '98 Yanks, the greatest team in MLB history, were also victims of not getting the attention as McGwire and Sosa!
@joemarshall42264 жыл бұрын
The Yankees got an unbelievable amount of attention, and deservedly so...they won 125 games that year, without losing one in the playoffs! Probaly the best team performace ever....But Sosa and McGwire were one hell of a story....as was the Seattle team of 2001, who got great press, thank in part, to Ichiro's unique play.
@joemarshall42264 жыл бұрын
The "Say Hey" thing was a marketing ploy. Just an image they promoted to entertain the audience....
@thescatman50294 жыл бұрын
@@joemarshall4226 Trust me, I know all too well about Sosa/McGwire being "one hell of a story." My TV went out when Mac hit 62, and a week later, the president of Time Warner Cable sent a letter to folk apologizing for the neighborhood power outage!
@icemike13 жыл бұрын
Amazing how people talk like they know what was in his head
@conspiracynutsmakemechuckl19705 жыл бұрын
I met Bonds in front of the Golds Gym in Burlingame in early 2001...He is an egomaniac, i walked away within a minute
@MikeProvocateur-tu2jl5 жыл бұрын
You had to meet the guy personally to figure that out. I am sorry. LOL.
@mcdonoghrahloh4595 жыл бұрын
Stop approaching men in San Francisco son.
@nycsongman97585 жыл бұрын
Yeah; guess he should’ve been a royal prince like Ted Williams, Mays, Cobb, DiMaggio, et al.
@Ahnhughwhale11 ай бұрын
That 2002 World Series hurt as a kid. Always wanted him to have a ring, the only thing he ever wanted.
@goober57135 жыл бұрын
I'm a die-hard Pirates fan and to me Hank Aaron is STILL the home run leader and Roger Maris has the home run record for the season with 61.
@ethanguerrero95295 жыл бұрын
Andrew Gubanic maris jucied
@michaelhassler74464 жыл бұрын
They didn't have juice back then.
@GaryMS5 жыл бұрын
I miss this show
@KinkESizemore6 жыл бұрын
😂 to #1, Lance Armstrong later came out and admitting to using PEDs, of course
@td11585 жыл бұрын
what kind of off-brand English is this?
@KinkESizemore4 ай бұрын
@@td1158get on the trolley!
@ceave5 жыл бұрын
So he didn't want to talk to the media, but wanted media attention...
@Cableguy154 жыл бұрын
"How could you not be happy? You're playing baseball!" *Flashes back to when I was a kid, standing in the outfield and doing one thing in all of nine innings* Also, it's strange how they try to argue Bonds was the better player of the 90's compared to Griffey. It's very close when it comes to batting, but even if Bonds was better at taking walks and stole more bases, Griffey was the better fielder, playing the tougher position, with more Homeruns (ESPN gets this wrong, Jr. hit more than Bonds in the decade, and that includes a couple of years where he was young and missing more than half a season in 1995. Barry was lucky to never have a severe injury and the 90's were all his prime years). Griffey also drove in more runs, had more hits, and even though he didn't take as many walks, had the same batting average of .302 for that decade. I think that Griffey was the better and more consistent power hitter of that time, while Bonds was a master of patience and drew more walks. Barry is the clear winner in steals, but Ken hit the ball more often and drove in more runs. What puts Griffey over during that time, to me, is that he is clearly the better fielder of the 90's. Again, he played a tougher position, and still had better fielding stats.
@kingad88694 жыл бұрын
So much of wat u said was wrong. Bonds is a 5 tool player. Griffey's only 4 tools. Plus bonds numbers were always better. You right about the positions but that alone doesn't make up the offensive gap between the two.
@wearecjfansandsupporters27896 жыл бұрын
The league did all they could to slow bonds down from reaching babe ruth but he still past him baseball is the most racist sports in America trust me I played.he would of hit 130 home runs that year if they would of pitched to him. Lol best ever
@realisrealite55546 жыл бұрын
Malcome X Hank had the same treatment from MLB and hundreds of death threats.
@sergeantpickles42025 жыл бұрын
Didn’t baseball turn a blind eye to his continued steroid use for years which allowed him to break babe Ruth’s records? How is that doing all they could to slow him down? Surely doing all they could would be banning him for life for blatantly cheating years earlier...
@TheBatugan775 жыл бұрын
Your statement is ignorant and racist. Maybe change your handle to Malcome Y.
@TheBatugan775 жыл бұрын
The most 'racist sport' has statues of multiple black men outside of Barry's own home stadium...on an address called 24 Willie Mays Way. Several of Barry's 'splashdowns' also landed in McCovey's Cove... What's he? Irish? People can be racist. A game cannot. I saw Barry's Godfather at Shea Stadium many times. The outpouring of love that guy got Everytime he stepped on the field...from people of all skin tones...belies any claims of racism from the great majority of people.
@TheBatugan775 жыл бұрын
Shut up, Malcolm
@ddavery12225 жыл бұрын
1) Bonds was never found guilty or failed a drug test. 2) back in the late 90’s the owners knew what was going on and they didn’t care, they was making money so they turn a blind eye until it came out.
@MikeProvocateur-tu2jl5 жыл бұрын
Because Bond's refused to take one at the required time of their asking. So he quit rather than. So let's not get things all twisted. I remember him never really taking one, unless it were on his time. Which basically gave him time to flush his system, and beat any test. You are really naive man.
@albundy41635 жыл бұрын
oj wasnt either. yet we all know
@mcgreatness81335 жыл бұрын
He took test for steroids before it was against the rules but he was taking hgh wich was was not able to be tested for I love bonds was great to watch him but I will not be naive and baseball knew and didnt care why I find it hypocritical that they stand holy now when they aloud it for years and why bonds used because so many where before him but MLB need nothing to stop it they are the only one to blame if MLB stopped in 80s it would have never became what did but they didnt care
@albundy41635 жыл бұрын
@@mcgreatness8133 it was always illegal. he roided up and hit half his homers after 35 hello mcfly
@albundy41635 жыл бұрын
neither was oj
@theleap29465 жыл бұрын
The only knock against Bonds is this.....he never elevated his teams.
@wubranch13 жыл бұрын
This is where worrying about being the best ever, and not the best of you, gets you in trouble.
@DividedByAlgorithms6 жыл бұрын
Ted Williams
@AE-vu3nt6 жыл бұрын
The G.O.A.T
@brandonmorris98895 жыл бұрын
I can remember when Bonds hit 756 over Aaron, there were a LOT of questions. People were saying that Aaron was robbed of the title of Home run king and it was obvious. Me however, I just sat back and enjoyed the Fireworks.
@brandonmorris98895 жыл бұрын
In this case: Bonds Vs. the Media
@nelsonporter83874 жыл бұрын
Sosa had 1 big year. Barry had a big career. The G.O.A.T
@TheBatugan774 жыл бұрын
Three seasons of 60 HRs. One good year. Are you this stupid every day? Or just today?
@nelsonporter83874 жыл бұрын
@@TheBatugan77 And who on here watches Sammy " Cork" Sosa videos, LOL? Hes nowhere near being in Mr. Barry Bonds class!
@jgreico116 жыл бұрын
top 5 reasons you can't blame Major League Baseball for continuing the lifetime ban of Pete Rose. Please
@rosario5085 жыл бұрын
I agree 100%. Pete Rose committed THE cardinal sin in baseball and therefore shouldn't be anywhere near the HOF.
@jaseinferno50965 жыл бұрын
it was other MLB players that took steroids too. Talk that same attitude bout others as you do him Foh.
@jayden86365 жыл бұрын
The thing is, Barry was actually good before he took them, that’s why he always gets the blame.
@user-qc6wi3dw5x5 жыл бұрын
@3:28 it looks like the dude is about to cry😂🤣
@kpk33x5 жыл бұрын
Without steroids Bonds ends up with 600 to 625 HR. This is plenty enough to make him an inner circle HOF. But that wasn't enough for him. Neither was being an inner circle asshole. He ended up #1 on both lists.
@kevaninthe41356 жыл бұрын
Fact: Back in the day Americans liked Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Lance Armstrong. They were nice to them so they got niceness returned to them. Barry Bonds was always an asshole and he got that attitude returned back at him. Barry was always his own worst enemy.