The Debriefing: Bonds Hits #756; Everyone Appears to be OK

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FanHouse: Wed AM 'Big Barry' Edition
Published 8/8/2007 by John at John Clifford Ness
... did on his way to the record -- and he probably did some very unethical, if not illegal, things -- 756 home runs is 756 home runs. The Debriefing: Bonds Hits #756; Everyone Appears to be OK: Joe Montana, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Muhammad Ali, and Hank Aaron -- a list of guys who might be considered authorities on competition -- chose to celebrate by sending video messages to Bonds to be played on the stadium's scoreboard. Maybe they said to themselves, "If everyone recognizes Babe Ruth's numbers as legitimate, then they have to recognize Bonds' numbers as legitimate. Trying to guess how many homeruns Bonds would have hit without steroids is as pointless as trying to guess how many homeruns Ruth would have hit had he faced the pitchers of color the country had to offer. So to hell with it ... if Babe Ruth is a storied part of baseball history, then so is Barry Bonds." ...

Asterisk
Published 8/8/2007 by DCScrap at Our Book of Scrap
... The Debriefing: Bonds Hits #756; Everyone Appears to be OK (The FanHouse) ...

It’s a man’s game, David
Published 8/8/2007 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
... But something gets me about these clips, both the finished product (above) and the litany of outtakes on Youtube. MJD and MDS already made a note of it, but seeing Beckham get delicately horse-collared and saying “Fuck that hurt” is oddly compelling. I have no idea why. ...