WHo thinks selig helped out BONDS become a starter

Yankee · Post #1 » by **Yankee** » Tue Jul 3, 2007 6:57 pm

in the all-star game?

bonds is not that popular.

I wonder if selig "helped" him out

afonso was leading him with 2 days left. cubs fans base is much bigger, and the fact that people like afonso a lot more than they like bonds.

something is fishy.

MadCityBucky · Post #2 » by **MadCityBucky** » Tue Jul 3, 2007 7:01 pm

I though Bud Selig hated Bonds? :dontknow:

But with Bonds in the all star game at least it's a lot more interesting.

Yankee · Post #3 » by **Yankee** » Tue Jul 3, 2007 7:09 pm

of course he hates bonds, but att&t park is his "hood"

I think selig told his computer techinician to jack up bonds' number

Post #4 » by **lpsevier** » Tue Jul 3, 2007 7:21 pm

Are you Hank Aaron?

34Celtic · Post #5 » by **34Celtic** » Tue Jul 3, 2007 7:21 pm

Bonds deserves to start more than Soriano, end of discussion.

Yankee · Post #6 » by **Yankee** » Tue Jul 3, 2007 7:56 pm

poasada deserve it more than I.rod

seizmnore deserve it more than ichiro

Post #7 » by **Da Schwab** » Tue Jul 3, 2007 9:30 pm

lpsevier wrote:Are you Hank Aaron?

+2

SportsWorld · Post #8 » by **SportsWorld** » Wed Jul 4, 2007 12:12 am

No the Giants set up internet kiosks at their ballpark so when people passed by they could press a button and it would give him 25 votes.
Kind of dumb if you ask me.

Post #9 » by **GYBE** » Wed Jul 4, 2007 1:31 am

Nothing Selig does suprises me. He's an awful commissioner and should've been forced out long ago.

Post #10 » by **Basketball Jesus** » Wed Jul 4, 2007 6:07 am

Yankee wrote:in the all-star game?

bonds is not that popular.

I wonder if selig "helped" him out

afonso was leading him with 2 days left. cubs fans base is much bigger, and the fact that people like afonso a lot more than they like bonds.

something is fishy.

Basketball Jesus wrote:Also: a bullet from Lee Harvey Oswald's gun didn't kill Kennedy. It was a baseball from a throwing error by ARod

brewguru · Post #11 » by **brewguru** » Thu Jul 5, 2007 3:21 pm

Soriano was leading with 2 days left? Funny, I didn't see any updated vote totals other than the ones released on June 25.

Also, if you look at ASG voting for the past, oh, say, 40 years, you will notice that vote totals almost get doubled in the last week. For instance, Prince Fielder had 1.4 million votes on June 25, he finished with around 2.7 million.

And how can you say Bonds is not popular enough to be elected a starter? He started in 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 and from '92-'98.
2005 he was hurt all year and 2006 he was bouncing back from the injury and had an average year.

Barry Bonds deserves to start the 2007 All-Star Game.

Boston's Future · Post #12 » by **Boston's Future** » Thu Jul 5, 2007 3:44 pm

Selig hates Bonds. Selig hates that the steroid era is going to be what his tenure is going to be remebered for most, and that Bond's is the posterboy for the era. Selig won't even go to or celebrate Bond's breaking Aaron's record.

34Celtic · Post #13 » by **34Celtic** » Thu Jul 5, 2007 5:02 pm

brewguru wrote:Also, if you look at ASG voting for the past, oh, say, 40 years, you will notice that vote totals almost get doubled in the last week.

I don't know about last 40 years....but internet votes are not counted until the final totals.

backer55 · Post #14 » by **backer55** » Fri Jul 6, 2007 6:04 am

No!

We would have heard about it from the "hard wired", wants to be un-named, informant "close the the comisoners office". Right? right!

HeelSox · Post #15 » by **HeelSox** » Fri Jul 6, 2007 5:24 pm

Somewhere along the lines...it's A-Rod's fault.

2004RedSox · Post #16 » by **2004RedSox** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:35 pm

MadCityBucky wrote:I though Bud Selig hated Bonds?

But with Bonds in the all star game at least it's a lot more interesting.

Agreed. I was pretty sure that most people were of the opinion the Selig didn't give a S*** about the guy and he was going to try to make it to his games out of a PR stunt.

I think that Bonds is fun to watch crank a couple out of the park, but can't say I care much about him in the regular season. If Bonds didn't have the hype around him and the ability to crank the HR's, there's no way he would have made it to the AllStar game. That's just the way it is.