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one reason Mac got more press the Bonds was how long it had been since the record was broken.
In Macs case it stood for decades and heck, since Ruth only one person had broken in.
in Bonds case it had just been done.
On Ichiro, as I said I don't watch Mariner games so I asked, but the TV/Radio around here, even some national games/crews talk about him tounge and cheek and make comments like "maybe if he didn't bunt onto base, and hit the ball Seattle could win a few more games" or "Ichiro is the best singles hitter in the game because that's all he wants to hit"
They compare him to Wade Boggs, who has proved he was capable of hitting for power, but instead protected his batting average by putting singles/double off the wall in Fenway rather then going for the power/homerun hits and risk pop-outs and deep flys that would kill his batting avg.
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