[lbo-talk] Baseball History

[Robert Wrubel]

You had to be around this guy over the years to
appreciate the achievement -- the incredible beauty of
the swing, the fantastic drives into the Bay, the
staggering number of times pitchers (or their
managers) just gave up and walked him.  He was called
arrogant, but perhaps just lacked the verbal skills or
need to give the standard self-effacing athlete's
response to questions.

In a corrupt and selfish culture, it's hypocritical to
judge athletes by some fairy-tale standard of good
behavior, as if it applied to any other parts of our
life.

Bob W

--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:


> DRR wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >The sports highlight of the summer -- Barry Bonds
> swinging his way into
> >baseball history!
> 
> 
> 
> And what a class act from Henry Aaron.
> 
> Then there's Bud Slimeball Selig meeting with George
> Mitchell this 
> week and looking like he'd stepped in something when
> Bonds hit 755 on Saturday.
> 
> One thing though.  Wasn't Bonds hugging Willie Mays
> more 
> enthusiastically than he did his wife? 
> 
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