Barry Bonds closing in on 700 career Home runs
 

With 694 home runs on his career Barry Bonds should eclipse 700 by the end of this season becoming only the third player in MLB history to reach the milestone.

Bonds is 40 years old. Do you think he has it in him to break the all-time record set by Hank Aaron? He will catch Ruth early next season. If he sticks around until 2006 there is a chance he will break the record.

Age and the fact that pitchers refuse to pitch to him are the only things setting him back.

If he breaks the record it will surely be the biggest accomplishment in American sports in my life time.


Top three career home run leaders:

Player At bats HR AVG. SLG%
1,AARON 12364 755 .305 .555

2,RUTH 8399 714 .342 .690

3,BONDS 9024 694 .300 .609

oh, i see you watch ESPN too.


cheers:thumbsup

I wish these pussies would start pitching to him......otherwise, he would have caught Ruth this year and quite possibly even Aaron.....

Yes I watch ESPN:)

There is a video on this page when Hank Aaron broke the record of 714 if anbody cares to see it.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/ba...40874_lad atl

babe ruth is still the home run king. hr's per ab is what matters

good for him

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

smart pusises don't wanna get owned

If Babe Ruth didn't spend his first five years as a pitcher or if he didnt party and get suspended so much

I wonder how many he could of got in total..

Bonds is up to 695 now:)

Just hit a monster home run off some Alanta pitcher

w00p w00p! for Barry! :thumbsup

he will surpass babe ruth :)

and i will make it my mission to make it to a game to get his autograph ;)

It went 476 ft. longest ball ever hit from that stadium:thumbsup

keep juicin he can hit 1000:glugglug

696 now :1orglaugh

They will most likely walk him the rest of this game

When Babe Ruth played the seasons were shorter. I don't think you can ever compare anyone to Ruth, he was hitting more home runs then any other whole teams were at the time.

I think what Bonds is doing is amazing in that he is 40 years old and out playing everyone else in the sport. It would be cool if opposing picthers would just man up and throw to him more often. Also, Bonds will break definitly break and own the home run record before he retires, he is showing NO signs of slowing down so he has a few years left. Who knows maybe he'll play ntil he's 50 lol.

juice doesn't improve your hand-eye coordination or help you time a pitch...have you ever seen him swing? He just doesn't miss the fucking ball...

no just improves the power thats applied to the ball, thats all. If it didnt help why is it illegal, give it up. He sucked ass for years just like sammy sosa. Boom outta the woodwork at a much older age to boot:glugglug

Excuse me??? Which years were these? You have no idea what you're talking about.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/player...s?statsId=3918

There's his seasonal stats....do try and point where exactly in this career that he "sucked ass for years".

What most amazes me about Bonds is how much of a performance dropoff he'd need to have to just be a run-of-the-mill allStar candidate. He's truly on his own planet like noone since Ruth.

:1orglaugh look at all his stats 86-91 versus the past 5 years. look at slg% in his early years. Its very obvious, some are just blind. Its all good

but juice can be the difference between 30 and 50 homers. bat speed is more important that pure strength, but you need strength to hit homers regardless.

1990 Pit 151 519 104 156 32 3 33 114 93 83 52 13 .301 .406 .565 .971
1991 Pit 153 510 95 149 28 5 25 116 107 73 43 13 .292 .410 .514 .924

yeah, he sucked ass in 90 and 91 :1orglaugh

The only year he was below-average was '86, his first season.

Um, you do realize a lot of those stats when he was younger came when he was a leadoff hitter? He was more about the stolen base than the homerun

It's illegal because the commissioner is under pressure to do something...

do you have some scientific data to back this up (the difference between 30 and 50)? I'd like to see it please.

if you cant see the massive differences then i do feel sorry for you, keep on rooting but he will never have the allure of many before him regardless of HR's:glugglug

your kidding right?

players dont hit their prime till about 27/28sh

he was a top of the order guy early in his career as well. he was asked to get on base and steal.

as he matured as a hitter and gained more power, he turned into a #3 hitter in a line up and one of the best players in the league.

I have no doubt that he will surpass 700. He's tough; I just hope he doesn't get injured...

:2 cents: :)

common sense would tell you that more strength equals more home runs.

same thing with increasing bat speed.

so, you're saying you don't have the poorf, right?

why do you hate black people and Mexicans? I notice you didn't site Mark McGwire or ason Giambi.....

I don't root for him as a matter of fact. Just calls em' like I sees em'.

scientific proof often overrides "common" sense...

it might increase a couple dingers, but Bonds doesn't hit homers that just drop over the fence...

he had two homers tonight that were both hit over 460 feet...

oops, sorry hispanics, Sammy is from the domican republic and I can't edit my post

your a dumb motherfucker, were did race get injected? Go about your business, really.

he's got 2 HR tonight, he's at 696

hahah, you're the biggest idiot on GFY and that's saying something

that's ok though, a lot of white people hate when people of color break records...look at the death threats that Hank Aaron got when he was chasing Ruth...

increase a couple dingers? it would be like using titanium bats. gear can increase strength by a large margin. you don't see too many skinny guys belting out home runs now do you? strength is a factor and you can do your own research at espn.com. look at your typical middle infielders(who are smaller and typically not as strong) compare them to first basemen/left fielders who are typically much bigger and stronger.

then you can pay scientists to figure out the correlation between strength and home runs for mlb players if you want actual real numbers from a study.

so, that increased strength had to have come from steroids rather than conditioning?

bonds is the man

bonds has been linked to that steroid case over the winter. guys 40 years old and his power has gone through the roof. guys get stronger in their early 30s not late 30s.

most major league players are on gear just like conseco said. but nobody will know because they don't want info like that coming out.

if babe ruth knew what steroids were, he would have taken them too

thats an interesting stat...
i knew he had a monster slugging % but that unreal
but then again Ruths is amazing too.

sorry, I think I misread one of your posts...reading Veteran's Day's posts dropped my IQ a couple points...
yes, the 'roids will add strength, but still won't affect hand-eye coordination...and watching his swing, it's just the perfect swing, and doesn't rely on brute strength as much as contact and timing...

I'm aware of the BALCO case

maybe he was a late bloomer? I just think it does a disservice to his accomplishments to cry "steroids" because of the take off late in his career...

i don't think it is a knock on what he's done. most players take gear, but bonds has the talent to put it to good use.

there are late bloomers, but he goes against human nature. even with steroids, its mind boggling that he's not slowing down. which is why i can't believe he's not on steroids. if he's not, they should cut him up and make sure he's not an alien.