Barry Bonds is the DEVIL!!!

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it's actually a brilliant strategy form a programming standpoint. i mean, they've done as much to stoke the barry controversy as anyone and this is the most flagrant example of them profiting off of it.

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

that story about the aunt is pretty sad, re: health insurance in this country.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

you'd think Mike Schmidt would pay for it, judging from the way he was kissing Barry's ass in that ESPN special.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

and considering it's coming from a man i've referred to as Chuck Colostomy Bag, i'm surprised this was so insightful.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 14 April 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Minor points (OK, just one) for the Crash shot (Parentheses Perry and Empress Hot Lips really are alone on that one), but

>>But baseball is still the intellectual game; it's the game most compelling to the likes of Ken Burns and George Will and Yo La Tengo>Baseball is the only sport where numbers always seem meaningful, and it's the only sport where a numeric comparison between players of different eras is even halfway reasonable.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 15 April 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

709

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 22 April 2006 23:56 (twenty years ago)

for awhile that "Bond HR Watch" on Yahoo's MLB page seemed to be mocking.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Bonds

― gear (gear), Sunday, 23 April 2006 00:25 (twenty years ago)

He still has as many home runs as Omar Vizquel this year.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 23 April 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

it occurred to me this morning, with Bonds' "won't pass Aaron with this bum knee" shtick, wouldn't he be better off as a DH in the American League? Or would learning so many new pitchers wipe out that incremental benefit?

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Or would learning so many new pitchers wipe out that incremental benefit?

I don't have the stat handy but Barry has hit more homeruns off more pitchers than anyone in history by a large margin. This isn't the Babe Ruth days...

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Not to mention that half of the pitchers in the AL used to pitch in the NL, and many of the rest have come through town via interleague play.

As far as the DH thing goes, Bonds is the Giants only marquee player. until last year, he was perpetually healthy and the best player in baseball. So the Giants signed him to a long-term contract. That contract backfired in 2005, and in 2006 he has been a liability SO FAR. But

(1) would the Giants trade their main draw in a trade that couldn't possibly yield any real value
(2) would anyone want a gimpy dh who will probably be booed by the home fans and makes $20mil per year?
(3) would bonds accept the trade, given that the yankees, sox, a's, tribe and chisox have a dh already, and that the remainder of the contenders can't afford him? that leaves a bunch of teams that bonds probably wouldn't accept a trade to, being a 10-5 guy.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

(3) would bonds accept the trade, given that the yankees, sox, a's, tribe and chisox have a dh already

dude, bernie williams...

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

i don't think bb would want to go out like babe ruth did, gimping around in brooklyn.

― gear (gear), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

(Ruth gimped around in Boston)

Bonds changes his mind on this stuff every week. His knee must feel like shit this week. Next week if it's feeling better and he hits a couple of dingers he'll say he'll play until he passes Aaron or drops dead, whichever comes first. This honestly wouldn't surprise me.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

right you are!

i don't think he's gonna pass aaron, though.

― gear (gear), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

dude, bernie williams...

Bernie hasn't DHed for the Bombers in approximately two weeks, and to my knowledge the Yankees don't plan to put him back in there, and Giambi is effectively the DH at this point. I could be wrong, but hey.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

well I wasn't really pondering the viability of a trade -- obviously he's in San Fran til the end. I was just wondering if removing the strain on his knee from his OF duties would make much of a difference at this point.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 02:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't have the stat handy but Barry has hit more homeruns off more pitchers than anyone in history by a large margin.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/04/23/SPGODIDV1K1.DTL

Aaron Cook joined Bonds' "life list" of pitchers to surrender his home runs. He is No. 417. It was Bonds' 25th at Coors Field.

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:29 (twenty years ago)

I was just wondering if removing the strain on his knee from his OF duties would make much of a difference at this point.

Probably. I remember during Tony Gwynn's last season, Rickey Henderson told him "I've got an idea... you hit, I run and play defense." Ideally, that would be the way to go for Bonds at this point.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

he got a piece of one just now in the bottom of the 2nd, but Shasta's man was seriously gimping around afterwards. not being able to handle a HR trot does not portend good things..

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 01:45 (twenty years ago)

i was at the game, he's been limping all season. you should have seen him after he tried to get a glove on Nady's homer. when he came down from his jump, i thought both legs were gonna buckle.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 04:40 (twenty years ago)

After tonight's game, Bonds' on base + slugging cracked 1.000

Aaron's OPS his last season was .684 (.687 the year previous).

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 05:38 (twenty years ago)

looks like he can handle left handed pitching alright still

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

Bonds 2006: OBP .545 + SLG .550 = 1.050 OPS
Bonds Career: OBP .443 + SLG .610 = 1.053 OPS

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Bonds Career: 9181 ABs
Bonds 2006: 41 ABs

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 April 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

OR: Ty Wigginton for MVP!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 April 2006 01:55 (twenty years ago)

OK, but obviously the rumours of Bonds' complete collapse have been exaggerated.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 April 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm not doubting that he'll do juuuuuuuust fine. But whipping out comps after 41 ABs is tres gauche.

― Pedant Bithcass (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 April 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Semi-professional wakeboarders need to catch the wave at the moment it appears -- nobody knows if another one like it will appear again.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 27 April 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I'd like to publically apologize for the small sample size (<10,000 ABs)...

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 April 2006 04:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't think anyone actually thought he wouldn't be able to hit the ball. But again, he can barely jog around the bases, let alone field a position.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 April 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

He needs to DH next year, in OAKLAND!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

so, moving on to the REAL subject of the is thread, what will barry do on june 6 of this year?

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Turn AND burn?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

Selig: MLB not planning any celebration for Bonds passing Ruth

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AuAelWko1tB15hMCGuhg20IRvLYF?slug=ap-bonds-selig&prov=ap&type=lgns

"We celebrate new records, that's what we do. We're being consistent," Selig said during the Associated Press Sports Editors annual meeting with league commissioners. "There's nothing to read into that.

"Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record," Selig said. "We don't celebrate anybody the second or third time in."

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

who the fuck cares what "Major League Baseball" celebrates.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:29 (twenty years ago)

I doubt Selig's sincerity (geee, really?) but his remarks make perfect sense. Cowboy and Olney didn't think so on Dumbshitz Tonight.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Cowboy?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

how swiftly they fergit! BRANTLEY (who was also pissed that Ray Knight once ordered him to walk Bonds leading off an inning)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Remember when BBTN was AWESOME? Or is this like the 80's where it wasn't as great as we think?

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Regardless of how rose colored my Berman'd nostalgia might get, I'm pretty sure shit is stinking like diarrhea nowadays.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Ravvy needs to GIT R DONE (and by "R" I mean "take Kruk and HR on a tour of the Connecticut River with rocks in their pockets").

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

BBTN non-shit% = % particip of Gammons and Bobby Valentine

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I don't really mind Olney compared to the other guys.

Actually, I like that big mexican guy (why can't I ever remember his name) who sits in from time to time. He's not bad.

I'm not sure who I despise most between Kruk and Steve Phillips, but I'm going to go with Phillips. What a fucking clown.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 28 April 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Just a little perspective here:

Arizona's down 7-2 in the bottom of the 8th, they've pitched to Bonds 4 times earlier in the game (single & bases-loaded double)... Bonds comes up with a runner on 2nd.

Intentional walk issued to Bonds to get to Alou... and Alou hits a 3 run HR.

His realtime stats: .273/.543/.568 = OPS 1.111

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 29 April 2006 03:57 (twenty years ago)

Had the pleasure of getting out to see the game today. The Giants runs came in the form of 2 solo shots (and a balk), of course with no one on base. Mike Matheney (.189 BA) was batting 6th so you know it's pretty dire over here.

Anyways, Bonds took a Scott Linebrink fastball deep (440 feet) to dead center. It was a monster line drive that let out a loud "thunk" (audible above the crowd of 35k's roar) when it hit the score board about 500 feet from the plate on a bounce.

Bonds saw about 30 pitches in 4 at-bats working the count full each time. He saw around 20% of the pitches thrown by San Diego pitchers.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2006/05/06/sp_giants_0113_df.jpg

I like the fatherly approval they're receiving.

― caek (caek), Saturday, 6 May 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

713

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Mammoth shot of the upper deck facade in right field* off Lieber.

*1st HR this year not to center or left.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 8 May 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

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