barry bonds is the best player in baseball

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You know, I started to reply with a full and unmitigated "Bullshit" - and then I realized that my reaction is based on the fact that I wouldn't piss on the cocksucker if he were on fire, and had nothing to do with his skills as a player.

The whining about cheaters is kind of funny ... for example, if you ran every pitcher out of the Hall of Fame who was skilled with a (spitball, scuffed ball, cut ball) "trick" pitch, the Hall couldn't field a decent pitching staff.

You can't compare players between eras. What would a Cobb or a Ruth or a Hornsby or a Muscial do under the training routines of today? Can you imagine the records of Dizzy Dean, Gibson or a Kofax or a Marischal if they were only expected to pitch 6?

If baseball before the 50s was played under the same social standards as today, how many of the current members of the Hall of Fame would be honorable mentions - because some of the best teams and players in the country are folks people have to visit an honorary section to learn about.

How would Barry Bonds have faired when his trip between the East and "the West" (St. Louis) took longer than his flight between NY & the west coast today? How well would the prissy little "injured reserve because of a hangnail" players of today have faired playing back-to-back double-headers in Washington or St. Louis in August?

Barry Bonds is a great player - no doubt about it. That he could be considered the best player of his era says more about the era than about him, IMHO.

BTW ... if there were a single match up I could pick for Bonds it would be one at-bat against Bob Gibson, only to see what would happen to Bonds when he charged the mound the second time the pitch was aimed at his fugly head.