2004 Baseball Season - Good Stuff

[GonzoStyle]

The sad part about Bonds being walked so much if twofold.

One its really shitty for the fans who take their kids to see Bonds play, not just san fran fans but other cities especially. They get to see san fran once in a blue moon and take their kid to see the game and at times they never see bonds even get the bat off his shoulders the whole game. I think its gotten silly at this point walking the guy in the 1st and 3rd inning with one man on.

Secondly we will never know the real numbers he could have put up cause they walk him so much. It's without a doubt he's arguably the best hitter ever or top 3 of all time at the least.

But He has 188 walks this season so far with about 25-30 games to go so he'll get well over 200 and probably like 210-225 walks.

So thats over 200 at bats taken away from him which for most major leaguers is about 35-50% of their apperances depending on the games played and such.

No Bonds the last few years has been at a pretty consistent pace of a Homer every 8 or so at bats, I did the math and this year its 1 homer for every 8.11 ab's, last year was 1 for every 8.67 ab's.

So by the math he could have hit 62 home runs last year, and he could have been at 61 home runs this season with a bunch of games to go.

and who is to say what he would have done with an extra 200 ab's? Naturally everyone gets walked so the numbers aren't exact but still. In those extra say 100 ab's he could have hit 2 home runs or 20 who knows.

But it seriously takes away from the game, the fans and history. Baseball in the end for fans in entertainment, watching bonds stroll to 1st is not entertaining.