Barry Bonds Set for Hall of Fame Induction -- Just Not That One

Krukow adds that Bonds should go into every HOF that exists and of course I agree. For the reasons stated below and then some. Bonds advantages came first and foremost from his Dad who gifted him with off the charts athletic ability and his close proximity to the wisdom of the greatest all-around baseball player who ever played the game in Willie Mays. Unless he was the deaf, dumb and blind kid he couldn't do anything but succeed in the game of baseball.

The media still has too much on their plate trying to clean up the mess left by their chosen "good guys" who cheated and were given the "nice-guy pass" like Tom "Perfect Balls" Brady and Alex Rodriguez ( and before that Andy Pettitte vis-a-vis Roger Clemens ).

Hmmmm......makes you wonder about the medias ability to pick "nice guys" or judge a person's character in the first place.  Hmmmm............

from mercurynews.com
Barry Bonds Set for Hall of Fame Induction -- Just Not That One:

Kuiper, too, would prefer that the discussion Monday center on Bonds' remarkable talents. Asked for his favorite memory of the slugger, Kuiper pointed not to the diamond but to a plane ride.

They were on the team flight headed for Atlanta, where Greg Maddux was scheduled to start for the Braves. Krukow and Kuiper were talking about Maddux when the hitter said, "You want to know something? I'll tell you the first seven pitches he's going to throw me."

Bonds was so sure of the sequence that he insisted that the broadcasters write it down.

"It never got to seven, because he hit the sixth pitch," Kuiper recalled. "But the first five were right. He knew exactly what Maddux was going to do to him.

"So if he knew what Maddux was going to do him, then he knew what most guys were going to do to him. You don't think that's an advantage?"

 Krukow said: "Bonds is the best player I ever saw that I was old enough to appreciate. I saw Willie Mays when I was a kid, so I couldn't really appreciate how great he was -- I mean, I knew he was fabulous.

"But you can actually see Bonds' genius at the plate. If you break down the mechanics of his swing, they were perfect to hit for average. They were perfect to hit for power. And he had one of the most brilliant minds ever to step into a batter's box."

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