04-10-2002, 05:47 PM
Absofuckinglutely.
Everyone talks about Ruth, Mays, Jackie Robinson, and Cobb but Bonds is head and shoulders above all of them.
With the conditioning, technology to study and improve ones mechanics, his size and strength compared to those guys, and larger pool of players (so the talent is better), if you put him back in the 20s or 60s, he'd have 100 homers every year.
He's the greatest ever for that reason. The guy is 38 and still just head and shoulders above anyone else in the league. He's on a completely different plane.
If you assume that he plays for another 4 years, and even dramatically lowering his stats, he'll end up with around 700 homers, 500 steals, 2000 runs, 2000 RBI, 2000 walks, and over a .300 lifetime average. All of those numbers together simply dwarf anything that any player has put together in the history of baseball.
And oh yeah, he's also won about 10 gold gloves.
BARRY BONDS IS GOD. And he's not a bad guy either no matter what anyone says.
Everyone talks about Ruth, Mays, Jackie Robinson, and Cobb but Bonds is head and shoulders above all of them.
With the conditioning, technology to study and improve ones mechanics, his size and strength compared to those guys, and larger pool of players (so the talent is better), if you put him back in the 20s or 60s, he'd have 100 homers every year.
He's the greatest ever for that reason. The guy is 38 and still just head and shoulders above anyone else in the league. He's on a completely different plane.
If you assume that he plays for another 4 years, and even dramatically lowering his stats, he'll end up with around 700 homers, 500 steals, 2000 runs, 2000 RBI, 2000 walks, and over a .300 lifetime average. All of those numbers together simply dwarf anything that any player has put together in the history of baseball.
And oh yeah, he's also won about 10 gold gloves.
BARRY BONDS IS GOD. And he's not a bad guy either no matter what anyone says.