Talking Baseball

Darrin Beene is entering his seventh year at The News Tribune, having covered the Tacoma Rainiers in 2005 and Major League Baseball for two years before that. Beene, a former assistant sports editor at The News Tribune, also worked for the Los Angeles Daily News and Los Angeles Times. He lives in the South Sound with his wife and two children.

This blog is about baseball in general but specifically the Seattle Mariners and the Mariners’ Triple-A team, the Tacoma Rainiers. It will contain news, analysis, answers to your questions and audio reports.

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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Posted by Darrin Beene @ 10:52:03 am

Over the weekend Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth by hitting his 714th career home run. Applaud the feat or scoff at it; it all depends on your feelings about Bonds' alleged use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs. One of the many questions raised by Bonds' troubles is this one: Assume that Bonds did take all the stuff that we've heard about. How many homers would he have hit if had not been juiced?

Hard to tell, right? Well, this article on the ESPN website puts a number to it and some science behind an educated guess of 616. Read on:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/060512

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