Barry Bonds is the DEVIL!!!

A Greenwood Avenue couple were frightened when an apparently disgruntled and intoxicated sports fan broke into their home early Wednesday morning. They hid from him until police came after he threatened to kill them, using profanity, according to incident reports. Statesboro (Ga.) police said officers responded to the couple's call for help around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, and found William Benjamin Smith, 21, also of a Greenwood Avenue address, "inside the residence in the kitchen in an apparent intoxicated state."

According to police incident reports, Smith was yelling and said "Barry Bonds doesn't deserve to be the Home Run King."

WHAT MORE DO YOU MONSTERS WANT FROM HIM?

Jonathan Cohen in The Nation:

Even though Barry Bonds is approaching Hank Aaron's home run record, Sports Illustrated's panel of experts excluded him from its "all time" team because his numbers "are not to be believed." It's sad that SI's list has so many players whose careers were in the pre-1947 "major" leagues, when the color bar was in effect. I am not condoning steroid use, but when 30 to 35 percent of qualified athletes are not allowed to play because of the color of their skin and are replaced by others who most likely would have been in the minors if segregation had not been in effect, the statistics are sharply skewed. It is often asked when someone will hit .400 again, as Ted Williams did in 1941. George Brett's .390 year (1980) is actually a greater accomplishment, given the level of the competition he faced (this is no knock at Williams, who was confident enough in his own abilities to openly support integration). The stats of the pre-integration majors, inflated by the exclusion of nonwhites, should be far more open to question than those of Mark McGwire or Barry Bonds. There are more teams now, but the US population has more than doubled since Babe Ruth's time, and baseball now draws players from all over the world. By continuing to honor the illegitimate records of the pre-1947 "major" leagues and excluding equally deserving Negro league players, SI is not only missing an analytical point but is condoning the discriminatory practices of Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis and the owners of that era.

The stats of the pre-integration majors, inflated by the exclusion of nonwhites, should be far more open to question than those of Mark McGwire or Barry Bonds.

DING! DING! DING!

QUESTION: did Ty Cobb cream or clear?

"I don't have any thoughts about Barry. I don't even know how to spell his name." - Hank Aaron, today

LINK

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Ai55pLBRthyCsEizRlng4SYo0bYF?slug=ap-aaron-bonds&prov=ap&type=lgns

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AuWtUWbuh6bs66f0Q7gyD1o5nYcB?slug=ap-aaron-bonds&prov=ap&type=lgns

oh, yeah

Once more.

hstencil, why is yours longer than mine?

oh lee.

Barry Bonds is an AIRPLANE!!!

Carew applauded Aaron's "clean liver" during an ESPN interview.

am i wrong in thinking Bonds has the demeanor of a later-era Orson Welles right now?

I eagerly await his "crumb-crisp coating" moment.

Bonds gives interviews to Merv Griffin?

Clay Davenport of BP, projecting:

Up to 748 now, after Saturday’s Fenway shot. That isn’t enough to change his chances of making it by the All-Star break any (still 13%) there, but it does drop his “not this year” chances back into the sevens; the only way “not this year” happens is with an injury, and each HR closer gives less time for an injury to intervene. It has concentrated the odds even more onto the July 16-19 series at Wrigley Field (just under a 19% chance of his 756th happening during those four games) or in the following Milwaukee series (11% in three games July 20-22).

im so psyched abt this

i didn't get a chance to see the replay of the HR ruled foul... was that really a HR?

Barry seemed to think so.

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070617/capt.627b11ef96be4cefbbb2fccc6937ddec.giants_red_sox_baseball_bxf112.jpg

Is he doing the El Duque?

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/images/2007/06/30/3cAYFlaH.jpg

the dude abides