In July 1934 Babe Ruth paid a fan $20 for the return of the baseball he hit for his 700th career home run.
Can you even imagine? PRICELESS!
Yeah...can you imagine...George 'Babe' Ruth was a well known all night party goer...who often played with a hangover...the fact that he had $20 in his pocket is almost unbelieveable...does anybody know what happened to that 700th homerun ball that the Babe deemed important enough to forego his bottle of scotch after the game and but it from what was probably a fan with an alcohol problem himself...no...nobody...that's right...and if ya thought I was gonna Google your ass an answer...quit bein lazy...thats what George woulda wanted...no I'm not even the least bit interested in what happened to that ball...for 2 reasons...number 1) Babe ended his career with 714 homeruns...which means that number 700 is a milestone...but not a money maker...and number 2) Because Hank Aaron broke that record years later...thereby making even number 714 a little less significant...baseball memorabilia has been significantly tarnished here lately what with the Decade of Dopers MLB just endured...personally I don't get the complaint about using steroids...if these guys wanna take that junk...grow 3 times the size of a normal human being in a single off season...come back with a huge, flat, billboard type forehead than so be it...I think its good for the game personally...baseball was a little more fun to watch...steroids had me watchin teams and games that I otherwise wouldn't have even cared about...Mark McGwire...and then Barry Bonds...altho it should be noted both players deny the use of banned substances like steroids...here's a little food for thought...Google a pic of Mark and Barry's rookie cards...you will undoubtedly notice a couple of skinny kids who look like they would fight a stray dog over a trash can meal...google a pic of them now...that's right...the Behemoth's of baseball would have you believe they just grew that way thru proper diet and weight training...BULLSHIT!!! You don't think Babe Ruth woulda taken performance enhancing drugs back in his day had they been available...baseball is one of the dullest things to watch on TV...except during the playoffs and World Series...when steroids were present you had people like me watching the Cardinals and Giants games just to see if one of those 2 guys was gonna knock the skin off the ball...there were people who would sit out in the Bay outside Candlestick Park waiting for a Barry Bonds hit homerun...don't see that nowadays do ya...nope...it's gone back to dull and boring...here and there somebody takes a poke @ a 50 HR season...(SNORE)...its highly doubtful we'll ever see a player come close to that magical number of 70+ again...BRING BACK THE ROIDS I say...make me somewhat interested in watching a regular season meaningless game again!!!
On a side note Obama has announced that all US troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the year...you will undoubtedly have heard by now what a disaster the Republicans think this exit strategy is...what a horrible horrible mistake this is by our President...I even heard one of these assbags declare that Obama had fumbled the ball inside the 10 yard line...NEWSFLASH: In 2006 during a joint statement in Iraq...in which a disgruntled Iraqi citizen actually threw his shoe at then President Dumbya...old Georgie himself set benchmarks for the war in Iraq...and signed an agreement in which it was stipulated and mandated that all US troops would be out of...and off of Iraq soil by DEC. 31st 2011...it would seem his own party has since forgotten this much heralded plan...and look to lay blame at someone elses feet...I may not know much about Obama...but from what I have seen I would say his war strategy is a helluva lot more effective than a decades long occupation of not one but 2 countries while conducting a Most Wanted manhunt for Osama...btw which one of the Seal Team Six members got that 50 million dollar bounty...Obama's war strategy is apparently not sitting well with the Republicans...it's too un American to spend a couple days launching strategic air strikes...toppling a terrorist regime without committing billions of dollars and sending thousands of ground forces to occupy the country in question. And who the fuck does this guy Karzai in Afghanistan think he is...didn't we put this poppy seed suckin, cave dwellin, camel jockey in the position of power...nw he says that if Pakistan is invaded by the USA and the people of Pakistan need help...Afghanistan will come to their aid...HEY DUMBASS we're leaving IRAQ...nobody sand anything about vacating your little sandbox...it's not too early to decapitate this little washcloth before he becomes a full grown and full blown Towlie...I think it's about time for Afghanistan to start teaching their children some World History...which thanks to the USA isn't being spoken in Russian!!!
