Comments on: Top 7 Reasons Breaking Sports Records is B.S. http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/08/10/barrybonds/ Take No Prisoners Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:48:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: CAR park 4ver » Blog Archive » Top 7 Reasons Breaking Sports Records is B.S. http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/08/10/barrybonds/#comment-860 CAR park 4ver » Blog Archive » Top 7 Reasons Breaking Sports Records is B.S. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:26:40 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/08/10/barrybonds/#comment-860 [...] is preposterous. Here are seven reasons breaking old sports records doesnt really mean anything.read more | digg [...] […] is preposterous. Here are seven reasons breaking old sports records doesnt really mean anything.read more | digg […]

]]> By: Chris Airhart http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/08/10/barrybonds/#comment-722 Chris Airhart Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:12:34 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/08/10/barrybonds/#comment-722 The modern athlete is better if for no other reason than it's become a lucrative industry. In Ruth's day, baseball was much more of a "gentleman's contest" and the drug of choice for athletes wasn't designer steroids, it was alcohol. Also, in Ruth's day, and before, if you hit a ball and it bounced over the fence, that was considered a home run. Today, it's a ground rule double. But, I'm getting off subject here. The point is, money is the driving force behind it. Let's say I'm an athlete in the 1920s-late 1960s. I might be a beloved public figure and all, but the paychecks aren't exactly what they should be. And there's no pension fund, nothing for me to retire on. In the NFL today, you have to play four years in the league to draw pension (however, the average NFL career is only 3 years, ouch). So, I might decide to do something else. But once the millions started to roll in, and I've got a enough athletic ability to make it, I can turn it into a career more profitable than being a doctor, journalist, musician, writer etc. And since it really is a market dominated by competition (in professional sports, you must win), I have to maintain my status through training, drugs and other stuff. Baseball is defined by its eras. This is the tail-end of the steroid era. Records were meant to be broken. My last comment is that all of these people enraged by the thought of their children looking up to people who "cheat" to get ahead is what's really bullshit about the situation. They should thank steroids. They saved baseball. 1994. Strike year. No World Series and shitty replacement players. The next year nobody cared. The Yankees, America's sweethearts, win a Series two years later. America cares a little more. 1998. Home run contest. America falls in love again. Until all the talk of Andro, HGH and "The Cream" and "The Clear" comes up. But people still attend the games. I think all substance should be legal in baseball. It makes things more interesting. I could write a fucking book on all the things wrong with baseball (including six teams in the N.L. Central, but only 4 in the A.L. West) but I'll stop here. Who cares? It's just a game. So enjoy it for what it is: a game. The modern athlete is better if for no other reason than it’s become a lucrative industry. In Ruth’s day, baseball was much more of a “gentleman’s contest” and the drug of choice for athletes wasn’t designer steroids, it was alcohol. Also, in Ruth’s day, and before, if you hit a ball and it bounced over the fence, that was considered a home run. Today, it’s a ground rule double. But, I’m getting off subject here. The point is, money is the driving force behind it. Let’s say I’m an athlete in the 1920s-late 1960s. I might be a beloved public figure and all, but the paychecks aren’t exactly what they should be. And there’s no pension fund, nothing for me to retire on. In the NFL today, you have to play four years in the league to draw pension (however, the average NFL career is only 3 years, ouch). So, I might decide to do something else. But once the millions started to roll in, and I’ve got a enough athletic ability to make it, I can turn it into a career more profitable than being a doctor, journalist, musician, writer etc. And since it really is a market dominated by competition (in professional sports, you must win), I have to maintain my status through training, drugs and other stuff. Baseball is defined by its eras. This is the tail-end of the steroid era. Records were meant to be broken. My last comment is that all of these people enraged by the thought of their children looking up to people who “cheat” to get ahead is what’s really bullshit about the situation. They should thank steroids. They saved baseball. 1994. Strike year. No World Series and shitty replacement players. The next year nobody cared. The Yankees, America’s sweethearts, win a Series two years later. America cares a little more. 1998. Home run contest. America falls in love again. Until all the talk of Andro, HGH and “The Cream” and “The Clear” comes up. But people still attend the games. I think all substance should be legal in baseball. It makes things more interesting. I could write a fucking book on all the things wrong with baseball (including six teams in the N.L. Central, but only 4 in the A.L. West) but I’ll stop here. Who cares? It’s just a game. So enjoy it for what it is: a game.

]]> By: M. Frederick Voorhees http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/08/10/barrybonds/#comment-657 M. Frederick Voorhees Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:55:09 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/08/10/barrybonds/#comment-657 I always find it hilarious whenever ESPN ranks the best NFL teams of all time and they put Lombardi's Packers or the '72 Dolphins ahead of recent winners like the 2002 Buccaneers. Watch the old highlights of the Dallas Cowboys defensive line that Bart Starr had to run over to win the NFC/NFL championship game and go to the first Super Bowl. They were built like a D-3 college team. You are right on point; it is bullshit to compare today's billion-dollar sports corporation to the guys in the past who basically did it for fun. I always find it hilarious whenever ESPN ranks the best NFL teams of all time and they put Lombardi’s Packers or the ‘72 Dolphins ahead of recent winners like the 2002 Buccaneers. Watch the old highlights of the Dallas Cowboys defensive line that Bart Starr had to run over to win the NFC/NFL championship game and go to the first Super Bowl. They were built like a D-3 college team.

You are right on point; it is bullshit to compare today’s billion-dollar sports corporation to the guys in the past who basically did it for fun.

]]> By: Matt http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/08/10/barrybonds/#comment-663 Matt Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:03:57 +0000 http://thewaronbullshit.com/2007/08/10/barrybonds/#comment-663 Also, going with #3, up untill the 80s, weight lifting was FROWNED DOWN UPON in baseball because the thought process was that if they were all musclebound, they would not be flexible enough to swing hard and the like. Players back then were wayyyyyyy thinner, watch a tape of any old game and you will see. Also, going with #3, up untill the 80s, weight lifting was FROWNED DOWN UPON in baseball because the thought process was that if they were all musclebound, they would not be flexible enough to swing hard and the like.

Players back then were wayyyyyyy thinner, watch a tape of any old game and you will see.

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