On Bonds
ESPN's Page 2 features a fascinating account by Patrick Hruby of just how many home runs Barry Bonds might have hit to date -- and why -- if it weren't for the assistance of performance enhancing drugs. It's a must read, even if you are sick to death of hearing about Barry Bonds, that discusses a lot of interesting physics (at a lay person's level) about baseball:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/060512
(The estimate is 616.)
By the way, it's been called to my attention by Lisa and her most excellent blog at http://forloveoftheastros.mlblogs.com/ that more than a few people have been discussing Bonds's recent drilling by Astros reliever Russ Springer shortly before Bond's 714th.
With regard to Springer hitting Barry Bonds and the Houston fans giving Springer a standing ovation in response, I fully support both actions (assuming Springer was not aiming at, and has enough control not to hit, Bond's head). Some might argue that if there were true and absolute justice in the world (not to put the burden on Springer), that the incident would have ended Bonds's baseball career -- short of Ruth and short of him disgracing America's pastime for another instant.
And the argument would not be based on Barry Bonds's use of steroids, as many other players have done, or Bonds's ascension in the record books, but because of the kind of person Barry Bonds is -- a despicable one -- as depicted in this article by Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports:
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