Starting tomorrow, Barry Bonds will be playing series on the road against the Dodgers and the Padres. He's standing on 754 homeruns....one short of Hank Aaron's all-time record. Sadly I don't have tickets to any of the local games when the record could and most likely will be broken. My question is: What would you do if you caught the record breaking ball? I thought about this last week. I think I'd be carrying a sharpie with me to the games. If I caught the ball, I'd write "756*" and "Aaron is still the king" on it before throwing it back on the field. This topic came up on the sports talk show I listen to in the afternoon, and others had very similar ideas. It gives me hope that Dodger fans will get very creative this week. The deafening boos for a cheater where there would normally be cheers for a great career accomplishment will be music to my ears, although I'm saddened that this event is actually happening.
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I am going to the game tonight and the game on Thursday, although for some reason I couldn't get tickets to sit in right field....odd.
Anyway, I will boo him when he comes up, but cheer the home run when it happens, because its still history, and its still for baseball. That said i don't think the Dodgers will give him to much to hit.
Had I been sitting in Right Field and caught a ball, I would have just sold it, I mean I could probably get at least 250k for that....I'm not stupid.
Just because it's history doesn't make it a good thing worth applauding. Oh and he'll get plenty to hit. Tomko is supposed to pitch Thursday.
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