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Longoria stinks up Sox for some baseball drama
Longoria put the Rays up 1-0 with his solo home run on the first pitch of the second inning. He gave them a 4-3 lead with another solo blast in the third. Longoria put the Rays up 1-0 with his solo home run on the first pitch of the second inning. He gave them a 4-3 lead with another solo... more
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Baseball Instant Replay Starts Thursday
Major League Baseball has reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run calls in series that start Thursday. Major League Baseball has reversed its long-standing opposition to instant replay and will allow umpires to check video on home run ca... more
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Hamilton Shines, But Morneau Wins at Home Run Derby
Josh Hamilton hit a record 28 homers in the first round of the All-Star Home Run Derby before running out of gas and getting beaten by Minnesota's Justin Morneau in the finals Monday night. Josh Hamilton hit a record 28 homers in the first round of the All-Star Home Run Derby before running out of gas and getting beaten by... more
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Pixar hits another home run!
Check out some of these movie reviews from top critics. It looks to be another smash hit from the people that brought you Toy Story.
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*B*O*N*D*S* Home Run Ball* Branded
God bless Marc Ecko and democracy. Today it was announced that the $752,467 baseball that broke Hank Aarons record will be BRANDED with an asterisk before being submitted to the Hall of Fame. The decision to brand the ball with an asterisk was the result of an online voting system that was open to anybody. The two other options were to send it to the Hall of Fame unblemished or to launch it into space. I have to agree with the good people of the United States, this ball should be branded with the asterisk before being submitted to the Hall, which (by the way) has said that they will in fact accept the ball with the asterisk. So there is your lasting legacy Senor Bonds, your greatest accomplishment branded with criticism and contempt. You can read the link or just look at the look on the umpire's face in the picture I clipped... he isn't to happy and neither is Bonds I presume. God bless Marc Ecko and democracy. Today it was announced that the $752,467 baseball that broke Hank Aarons record will be BRANDED wit... more
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One More Season Left in Bonds?
With his place in home run history secure, Barry Bonds says next season likely will be his last.
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Two Home Runs, One Inning
Maglio Ordonez hit two home runs in the same inning yesterday. Ridiculousness. Hasn't since happened forever.
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Maybe You Shouldn't Keep That Ball
The guy who caught Barry Bonds' home run should probably sell it, or else the IRS is gonna screw him.
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The Legend of the Home Run King
If you think about it hitting a baseball is not an easy task. The concept of hitting a round ball with a round bat still has the physicist inside of me stumped. Big leaguers practice hitting every day and most end up hitting less than 30%. Any player that averages .333 (which means getting a hit 33% of the time) is considered one of the best in the game. Now that is just hitting the ball! Hitting a home run means hitting the ball close to perfectly so that it travels at least 300 feet and makes it over the fence. Hitting 25 balls out of the park a season makes you one of the best in the business. Babe Ruth hit 714 in 22 seasons before he retired in 1935. Hank Aaron topped the Babe and ended his career with 755. Seven hundred and fifty five is so many I had to write it out. These two legendary players have held the home run record for about three quarters of a century. Thousands of players have played in the big leagues during this time but nobody could reach the top, until Barry Bonds hit 756.
Bonds became the new home run king when he hit an 84 mph pitch over the right field wall. Circling the bases for his 756th time in his professional career Bonds finally eclipsed Hammerin Hank. He now stands alone with the most home runs in Major League Baseball history. Even an anti-Barry fan like myself couldnt help getting a little swept up in the emotion of the event but something just wasnt right. This uneasiness, which I undoubtedly share with the majority of America, is telling of the times we live in. Gone are the days of innocence and glory that made baseball the pastime it is supposed to be today. Today, baseball is fueled by mass media and the all too powerful dollar.
Where and when did we part from the true essence of professional sports? Baseball started out as a working mans sport that unified the community and entertained the people. In the early years players would play ball for half the year and then find part time work when the season was over. Players lived on the same block as the fans and would even walk to the ball yard with them on game days. These were sports heroes that everyone could relate to. Compare that to the state of the game now and I think youll find that things look a little different. Today, sports are pretty much analogous entertainment. Barry Bonds breaking The Record is both an example of this trend and a gloomy harbinger of what the future holds for the endangered community of traditionalists who appreciated sports in their pure form.
Barrys great moment and this great record are now forever tainted. We should be honoring the new home run king like any good peasant lucky enough to witness such a legend. Instead we are squabbling about asterisks and talking about that kid from New York who caught the money ball. Thats not baseball. Players like Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron attained legendary status by hitting more home runs than anyone thought possible. The all time home run record stood for Herculese-esque capabilities and perseverance. Hitting 700+ home runs marked a very special and rare accomplishment that might be granted twice every century. The old record is gone and now the greatest home-run hitter of all time is a player that approximately 80% of the American people think cheated. How could this have happened? Perhaps our collective respect for the game of baseball changed so subtly that we didnt realize it until it was to late. Now the game that brought us through the great depression, helped break down discrimination and brought joy to the workingman is in dire straights. With our most sacred of records taken away and the spirit of the game evaporating with every scandal and compromise, is there still hope for the future of sports? If you think about it hitting a baseball is not an easy task. The concept of hitting a round ball with a round bat still has the physi... more
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