Do you think Barry Bonds will break Hank Aarons' home run record?
89841
NO.  IF this is his last season, he will not break it.  Even if he IS healthy all season, pitchers will pitch around him.  He needs 48 home runs to break the record.  He only hit 45 in 03 and 45 in 04 playing 130 and 147 games.  There is no way he is going to get close to that many games again with his bad knees.  He will need two more seasons to do it.\n\nI think that with all of the controversy around him.  He is going to bow out second on the list after this season.  He does not want the media attention on himself or his family.  Just the fact that he is second is going to give him more coverage than he would like.\n\nMLB themselves are not sure how they want to acknowledge any records that he may get because of the controversy.
391284
No, baseball won't do that.  The historic awards will remain as they are...\n\nKen Caminiti (sp?) won the NL MVP award one year, and before he died, he flat out admitted he was on steroids at the time... they didn't strip him of the award, and the same will be true of Bonds..\n\nBesides, how do we know the runners-up weren't on something as well? In some cases it might be obvious, but in other cases the runner-up's credentials perhaps could also be questioned.
691719
What a sad day in baseball when a cheater ties a record of a true baseball player. Ruth will always be better than Bonds.
355140
I think he is capable of breaking the record but I don't think MLB pitchers will allow him to do it.  I do not think they will pitch to him enough times to allow him to break the record.
266716
No, Sosa doesn't deserve the honor because looking at his sudden body growth in the mid-90s, it's obvious he was using as much as Bonds or McGwire.\n\nBut the record won't come down because it was established before steroids were illegal in baseball, so there would be no grounds ... no rules were broken that were in effect at that time.
619057
i think the focus is on the fact ruth's record (and aaron's record for that matter) has stood the test of time. no one has even come close for years and years. that is why it is such a big deal.\n\nfrankly i think he should stop now and not taint the record books (and ruth's memory) by going any further. he deserves an * more than maris ever did...
761439
No -- the major league record is only 755 (Hank Aaron) and I believe the record in Japan is 800-something, so I don't think anyone has hit that many homeruns, let alone someone named Tony.
486440
NATIONAL LEAGUE WILL WIN THE ALL-STAR GAME\n\nALBERT PUJOLS WILL WIN THE HOME RUN DERBY\n\nAND HE WILL BREAK THE RECORD HE WILL HIT 7956784567
1101257
NO, there is not!! He is just incredible. Today against Tom Gordon of the Phillies, Big Papi hit his 8th career walk off home run!! That must be a record!!\n\nGo Sox!!
644093
If he keeps this up, so far he is a potential triple crown candidate, he is on the pace to breaking the previous home run record of 73.  I just named a couple records.  lol
550501
Shockingly Barry Bonds set this record in 2001, on his way to 73.  He had 39 at the all-star break.
691649
I think they'll honor it just like any other record, if he does break the record.  They didn't say that wouldn't.  Steroids were banned just recently, and they can't go back and enforce something that was legal back then.  Otherwise, they would have to go back and investigate every single player since the start of baseball in order to have no discrimination and that's not going to happen.
127522
Aaron is best known for setting the Major League record for most home runs in a career (755), surpassing the previous mark of 714 by Babe Ruth. Aaron also holds the career marks for RBI (2,297), extra base hits (1,477) and total bases (6,856).
1147184
The most home runs Barry Bonds has hit against any pitcher is 8. He has homered 8 times against 4 different pitchers, which are Tom Glavine, Greg Maddux, Terry Mulholland and Curt Schilling. If you are curious about teams, his most frequent team homered against is the San Diego Padres, hitting 82 against them.
613479
I think that Barry Bonds should be up there with his godfather, Willie Mays, but not with the babe and hank arron. Without the steriods he still would have hit a ton, even if what the book Game of Shadows says is true, and he started in 1998, the pace that he was going on, he still probably would have reached 600. And even 600 is enough to be put in the same category as the babe and aaron, but not worthy of being on the exact same level as the two greatest homerun hitters of all time.
496861
I live right down the road from Hank Aaron he is one of our greatest sports players ever here in Mobile..\n\nHank said on the local news not long ago that he was ashamed of Barry Bonds using steroids.\nHank would of been proud to lose the record but he is just old fashion to not using steroids.\nNow some people may say different but i saw it on the news long before now.\n\nHe said he would not back him up on breaking the record because he did not use steroids to get where he had been at one time.\n\nWell i guess some people may think I'm sticking with Hank because he is from my home town.\nIts not that its just when Hank said it he said it with such saddest for Barry Bonds.\n\nHank Aaron has a big heart baseball fans and if Babe Ruth where alive he would speak louder than Hank has on this issue, for Babe Ruth was more out-spoken.\n\nHank keeps a low profile but when ask he will speak his mind.\nBarry Bonds will go down as a cheater his record should not stand and worst of all is his health.\n\nWas the steriods worth not living to see his grandchildren\nbecause everone know the long term effects maybe he will get lucky.\n\nThe best thing Barry could do at this time in his life is to go around and talk to kids and let them know why they should never use steriods.\nNow that would be away to help others.\n\nYou can see it he his not nearly as good of baseball player without steriods. \n\nThe End
250412
Hank Aaron has 755, but Sadharu Oh in Japan hit 868... Lots of great player's stats were never kept because they were in the Negro Leagues... but the MLB record (for now) belongs to Hammerin' Hank.