If Barry Bonds retired tomorrow, that would be the name of the HBO movie about his life. Better that than 666, right?
The slugger-under-siege hit his 661st career home run last night, allowing him to pass his godfather, Willie Mays, for third place on the all-time home run list. Tony Kornheiser says 660 isn’t that big a deal, but I disagree- for the entire time that I’ve been alive, the all-time home run list has gone Aaron/Ruth/Mays; as of yesterday, it no longer does.
Tony also turns the whole thing into an anti-sabermetric argument, which I’m sure is already the subject of a 300-post thread on BaseballPrimer or SOSH.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 14, 2004 06:40 PMThe title of this post looks so familiar... :)
Posted by: Jeremy Wahlman at April 15, 2004 06:11 AMthe asterisk, of course, signifying that the last 3 years worth of those homers were the result of the juice.
Posted by: LilB at April 15, 2004 03:36 PMActually, I meant because I titled my Bonds post the same thing.
Posted by: Jeremy Wahlman at April 15, 2004 04:14 PM