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Quote by: CoffeeSaint Chess isn't a sport. Reading doesn't have a lot of action either, but that doesn't make it a valid comparison. I was talking about the popular team sports.

Fair enough. There's no real reason to watch baseball on TV.

Quote by: Soft Feet, Inc. CAREER HOME RUNS: Barry Bonds: 783******* Henry "Hank" Aaron: 755 Babe Ruth: 714 *Baseballs wound tighter than in either Aaron's or Ruth's era *Pitchers threw harder than in any other era, thus allowing for greater force once the ball was struck *Suspected of steroid use *Suspected of using genetically altered "super-springy" wood in bat *Suspected of using voodoo to discompose opposing pitchers *Suspected of using tangibly distasteful personality to influence umpires to make calls for and not against *Suspected of being a stinky stinky stinkerhead How are you going to have that conversation over a beer after the game? The other possibility if Bonds breaks the record is that someone who has the ability to break his record without cheating will be motivated to do it, and many others will be inspired to try, and those of you who actually enjoy baseball in the US will be able to watch it the way it should be seen.

LMAO! Roger Maris only got ONE asterisk. Barry gets seven?!

I hope the result of his new record is as you suggested (that other players will be inspired to try and break it) and not that (as you suggested) baseball dies a slow and--I guess, stinky--death. After all, we don't want football to be our only native sport, do we?

As for the corked bat / pine tar / harder throwing / juiced ball era of baseball, what's the problem? Whatever it takes to get people excited about the sport again, I'd say.