Biggest Bad Guy in Baseball?

[RickD]

Ya know you aren't to bad for a sox fan either...if ya ever switch loyalties to the yanks you'd be great!

[robinhoodnik]

Ya know you aren't to bad for a sox fan either...if ya ever switch loyalties to the yanks you'd be great!

You too. There's a red B waiting for you if you ever get to Cape Cod.

[beerchaser]

Why is Walter O'Malley on that list? Because he moved the Dodgers out of Brooklyn? I don't think anyone outside of NYC could care less about that. I've been a Dodgers fan for 35 years and it doesn't bother me one bit.

[robinhoodnik]

Yup. You must have heard the one about Hitler, Stalin and O'Malley right?

You have a gun with two bullets, standing before you are Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Walter O'Malley. Who do you shoot?

O'Malley.......twice.

[BOOMhauer8782]

Shame on all the 12 and 13 year olds here voting for Bonds. Quit watching ESPN and MTV and generate some opinions of your own will you?

[BOOMhauer8782]

Yup. You must have heard the one about Hitler, Stalin and O'Malley right?

You have a gun with two bullets, standing before you are Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Walter O'Malley. Who do you shoot?

O'Malley.......twice.

Then beat him with it

[beerchaser]

I would much rather shoot Peter O'Malley for selling the team to Fox.

[YEAH DAAAAWG]

I don't understand people's issue with Selig. He may have enabled steroids, but it was going to go on regardless, it was just a matter of to how high a degree. Under him baseball has broken its own attendance records repeatedly and is going as strong as it ever has. Selig is ok in my book.

[robinhoodnik]

He was also the major player in the collusion problem of the 80's.

[BOOMhauer8782]

I don't understand people's issue with Selig. He may have enabled steroids, but it was going to go on regardless, it was just a matter of to how high a degree. Under him baseball has broken its own attendance records repeatedly and is going as strong as it ever has. Selig is ok in my book.

Maybe that has something to do with the thousands more HR being hit nowadays... you think maybe Selig KNEW that would happen and therefore turned a blind eye? I do

[BOOMhauer8782]

The NHL has been talking about widening the goals... why? More scoring!!! Same principle, except NHL isn't doing anything illegal to increase their appeal to the population like Selig allowed to happen. Rather than saying, "hey you gotta have a certain size field", Selig said "cool... more scoring = more fans = more money for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[RickD]

I think the Bonds choice will win because people are voting with their "heart" and not their head!

[Tannhauser]

I am appalled. Seriously, to find this Bad Guy of Baseball is like discussing whether Mantle and Mays should've been banned and stayed banned for being hired to work as greeters and autographers at a Atlantic City casino.

There are certainly players that I detest, but it has nothing to do with their reputation, but more to do with their attitude towards the game. Personally as a Yankees fan, I would vote for Kyle Farnsworth. He can't be trusted in pressure situations. As a Cubbie, he charged and tackled Reds pitcher Paul Wilson in 2003. In 2004, he sprained his knee when he kicked an electric fan after blowing his knee. In 2005, during a bench clearing incident, he charged and tackled Royals pitcher Jeremy Affeldt. In 2007, he annoyed the **** out of Posada after throwing a pitch that his catcher didn't call and ignoring Posada afterwards.

I could respect Ty Cobbs and Pete Rose, because they played the game so well, but I can't respect Kyle Farnsworth because he can't do diddly-squat.

[ohms_law]

While I'm certain the PED use was (and probably still is) fairly high, I'm also convinced that they did something to the baseballs. That's the only thing I can think of that would account for the increased offence across the board.

[YEAH DAAAAWG]

Maybe that has something to do with the thousands more HR being hit nowadays... you think maybe Selig KNEW that would happen and therefore turned a blind eye? I do

I don't support steroids in the slightest, which is probably obvious since I hate Barry Bonds with every fiber of my being, but baseball needed the biproduct of the steroid use. We were coming out of the strike and attendance was at an all time low, baseball was on the verge of falling out of the major sports circle and spiraling downwards like hockey is now. But when players started juicing and balls started flying out of the park baseball was restored to its former glory. He did what baseball needed at the time by turning a blind eye, if he hadn't baseball wouldn't be where it is now.

As for the Bonds thing. I have always hated Bonds, the alleged steroid use and indictment only further my hate and give me more of a reason to hate him. Hes all about himself and is too cocky for his own good. I have every reason to hate him, the pirouette at home plate against the Dodgers, the alleged steroid use, raping baseball of its homerun record, and his need to be bigger than the game.