Bonds to call it quits after 2006

[Jon]

And apparently still doesn't like the media:

MLB.com[/url]"]Barry Bonds told USA Today he will retire after the 2006 season with or without breaking Hank Aaron's all-time home run record, which he is 47 home runs away from tying.

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"I'm not playing baseball anymore after this," Bonds told USA Today in a telephone interview. "The game [isn't] fun anymore. I'm tired of all of the crap going on. I want to play this year out, hopefully win, and once the season is over, go home and be with my family. Maybe then everybody can just forget about me."

[Balsa]

Maybe then everybody can just forget about me

 

Nothing would make me happier.

[UMFan83]

Here's one person hoping he doesnt break the record

[Vinestal]

Maybe then everybody can just forget about me

 

Nothing would make me happier.

 

 

Amen to that, I look forward to forgeting about Barry. I hope he comes no where near Hank's record.

[Jehrico]

I hope he doesn't even pass Ruth, or break 700 at all.

[Neuby]

let's hope the juice and bad knees will help make sure that Bonds doesn't approach that record.

[Fred Hornkohl]

Well, Barry, who's to say you couldn't retire today and then we could all start forgetting you right now ??

 

"Never put off until tonmorrow.............

[Tim]

I hope he doesn't even pass Ruth, or break 700 at all.

He's at 708 already.

 

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I love watching Barry hit.

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

Barry is a great hitter, but he is one of the world's biggest whiners. "Oh poor me" gets old after a couple of years.

[A New Era]

Barry is a great hitter, but he is one of the world's biggest whiners. "Oh poor me" gets old after a couple of years.

 

Or a couple decades. .

[Tim]

I don't like listening to Barry. But steroids or no, he's easily the best hitter I have ever seen.

[Jon]

Some more:

NBCSports.com[/url]"]"I can't even tell how you may pain pills I am on or how many sleeping pills I'm taking," Bonds told USA Today. "I don't have a choice. I can't even run that much anymore. How can I run? I don't have any cartilage in that knee. I'm bone on bone.

 

"But I can still hit. I can rake. I can hit a baseball."

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"I love the game of baseball itself, but I don't like what it's turned out to be. I'm not mad at anybody. It's just that right now I am not proud to be a baseball player."

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"I'm clean, I've always been clean," Bonds told USA Today. "But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.

 

"Thank you for all of your criticism. Thank you for dogging me. The latest thing is that ESPN says that Barry is still big. They say I didn't lose weight. Well, you know what? I am still big. I'm fat (6-2, 230 pounds). I can't do much. I can't train like I used to. So the weight stays. I'm just not a skinny person, dude, I'm not. I never will be.

Edited February 19, 2006 by Jon

[Diffusion]

Then Hank's record is safe.

 

Bonds has only ever twice hit 48 or more home runs in a season: 2000 (49) and 2001 (73). And he played an average of 148 games those two years.

[Andy]

Then Hank's record is safe.

 

Bonds has only ever twice hit 48 or more home runs in a season: 2000 (49) and 2001 (73). And he played an average of 148 games those two years.

You forgot the part where he was hulked up on flaxseed oil those two seasons.

 

Goodbye in advance, Barry, and thanks for not ruining the most hallowed of all baseball records. Thanks also for charging the mound on Prior when he dared throw somewhere near your 10 pounds of body armor.

[CubinNY]

Then Hank's record is safe.

 

Bonds has only ever twice hit 48 or more home runs in a season: 2000 (49) and 2001 (73). And he played an average of 148 games those two years.

You forgot the part where he was hulked up on flaxseed oil those two seasons.

 

Goodbye in advance, Barry, and thanks for not ruining the most hallowed of all baseball records. Thanks also for charging the mound on Prior when he dared throw somewhere near your 10 pounds of body armor.

 

Hulked up on flax seed oil or not, the mere fact that he has hit so well and with so much power makes him the best player of our lifetime. he is up there with Ruth, Mantle, Gehrig, and Mays on the Mount Rushmore of Baseball.

 

One of the things that most people don't or won't understand is his bat speed. He has always had incredible bat speed. I've never see a guy wait as long as he does and still hit the ball with authority.

 

People can say whatever the want about him, but he is the best pure hitter I've ever seen.

 

Sometimes it is hard to seperate the person from the baseball player.

[Jon]

I get the feeling that he's either going to break it by one or not come close due to injury. Right now, though, I just don't see how he'd be able to make it through a full season.

[A New Era]

Then Hank's record is safe.

 

Bonds has only ever twice hit 48 or more home runs in a season: 2000 (49) and 2001 (73). And he played an average of 148 games those two years.

You forgot the part where he was hulked up on flaxseed oil those two seasons.

 

Goodbye in advance, Barry, and thanks for not ruining the most hallowed of all baseball records. Thanks also for charging the mound on Prior when he dared throw somewhere near your 10 pounds of body armor.

 

Hulked up on flax seed oil or not, the mere fact that he has hit so well and with so much power makes him the best player of our lifetime. he is up there with Ruth, Mantle, Gehrig, and Mays on the Mount Rushmore of Baseball.

 

One of the things that most people don't or won't understand is his bat speed. He has always had incredible bat speed. I've never see a guy wait as long as he does and still hit the ball with authority.

 

People can say whatever the want about him, but he is the best pure hitter I've ever seen.

 

Sometimes it is hard to seperate the person from the baseball player.

 

 

Yeah it's hard. Hitler was a very effective leader, should he win any awards? Barry Bonds (the person) doesn't deserve any kind of reward. JMHO.

[CardsFanInChiTown]

If Barry is healthy and productive in 06 I'll bet we see him in 07.

[Soul]

Bonds is a habitual liar, so I wouldn't put much faith in what he says. He told a few reporters he was definitely in his final year a couple years back. Obviously that was a lie.

 

Even if he does break the record, the home run king in my mind remains Aaron. And it will until someone legitimately breaks it; i.e. without the assistance of BALCO.

[Balsa]

If Barry is healthy and productive in 06 I'll bet we see him in 07.

You're probably right.

 

As long as someone is there to pass out the money, he'll probably take it. See Clemens, Roger.

[stitchface]

How is he going to play LF? The Giants should trade him to the AL.

[CubinNY]

Then Hank's record is safe.

 

Bonds has only ever twice hit 48 or more home runs in a season: 2000 (49) and 2001 (73). And he played an average of 148 games those two years.

You forgot the part where he was hulked up on flaxseed oil those two seasons.

 

Goodbye in advance, Barry, and thanks for not ruining the most hallowed of all baseball records. Thanks also for charging the mound on Prior when he dared throw somewhere near your 10 pounds of body armor.

 

Hulked up on flax seed oil or not, the mere fact that he has hit so well and with so much power makes him the best player of our lifetime. he is up there with Ruth, Mantle, Gehrig, and Mays on the Mount Rushmore of Baseball.

 

One of the things that most people don't or won't understand is his bat speed. He has always had incredible bat speed. I've never see a guy wait as long as he does and still hit the ball with authority.

 

People can say whatever the want about him, but he is the best pure hitter I've ever seen.

 

Sometimes it is hard to seperate the person from the baseball player.

 

 

Yeah it's hard. Hitler was a very effective leader, should he win any awards? Barry Bonds (the person) doesn't deserve any kind of reward. JMHO.

 

Comparing Bonds to Hitler is awesome. Just awesome!

[frostwyrm]

Has there ever been a worse defensive OF than Bonds/Finley/Alou?

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Let's not go the Hitler route. Keep it about Bonds, folks.

[Andy]

Has there ever been an older OF than Bonds/Finley/Alou?