Why Don't You Care About Barry Bonds Breaking the Home Run Record?

[Compugasm]

To make baseball more exciting, they should combine it with a spelling bee. For every base you take, you have to spell a word too. If anything, it would make spelling bees more exciting.

ANNOUNCER: Barry Bonds has just gotten to first base, lets go down to the field for the spelling of his word... UMPIRE: Your word is "can." BARRY: Can you repeat the word please? UMPIRE: Can. BARRY: Can you use it in a sentence? UMPIRE: My Chunky Soup comes in a can. BARRY: What is the origin of the word? UMPIRE: It's Middle English derived from Old English and Germanic languages. BARRY: Can you repeat the word again? UMPIRE: Can. BARRY: Are there any alternate pronunciations for the word? UMPIRE: No. BARRY: May I have the definition? UMPIRE: GET OFF THE F'N FIELD!!!!

[fushigi]

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.

[fushigi]

Quote by: Compugasm To make baseball more exciting, they should combine it with a spelling bee. For every base you take, you have to spell a word too. If anything, it would make spelling bees more exciting.

Only when the world gets its first Nerdocracy, in which I'm sure you'd have a prime position.