Barry Bonds is the DEVIL!!!

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

"Aye, brother. My name's Desmond. Apologies for interrupting and I'm a wee bit soused but I'd be humbly honored to shake your hand."

lol Barry:

I felt safe with him . . . he had no shoes on. If you come at me one-on-one, you'd better come with a lot, Jack. More than one-on-one, and you've got me nervous.

Bonds needs five more home runs to tie Carlton Fisk for most by a player after his 40th birthday.

I'm looking forward to Barry breaking this record!

"I will not intentionally walk Barry Bonds in the All-Star Game," Leyland said.

Bonds will believe it when he sees it. Skepticism comes naturally to him. Boldness does, too.

"You throw me three fastballs, you let me know it's coming, I'm going to put it in the cove," Bonds said sharply. "You tell Leyland that. You throw me a change-up and don't tell me, OK then. But if you tell me what's coming, that water's not far enough."

so in about a week, the Giants go to Chicago and... Milwaukee. Oh man, how many Hank-Barry-Selig stories if he hits 756 in Milw?

Hah, from the same article:

Bonds, who turns 43 on July 24, will hit second in N.L. Manager Tony La Russa's batting order, ostensibly to put immediate fear in American League starting pitcher Dan Haren.

No more waiting until the 2nd to piss yr pants, Haren!

It turns out Bonds knows how to plan a party. At least, that's what Griffey says. Griffey was among the players who attended Bonds' bash at Roe Restaurant in San Francisco on Monday night.

Bonds said he stayed until nearly 3 a.m., which is well past his usual bedtime.

"I was brain dead," Bonds said before the game. "This game isn't going to turn out well. Really, guys. You'll have to forgive me if I go 0 for 5. I don't care though. My party is more fun."

SAN FRANCISCO -- Now that the All-Star Game and Dmitri Young's hairdo are history, all attention will turn to Barry Bonds' home run quest and his closest pursuer -- and, no, I'm not talking about the feds, Sen. George Mitchell or Bonds' alleged former mistress, Kimberly Bell.

O RLIA?

http://webpages.charter.net/mphilip/bbf/images/rich_aurilia.jpg

I am British, so I do not get this:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-moneybonds11jul11,1,7666664.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&ctrack=1&cset=true

It mentions the drug allegations only in passing, and seems to imply the main reason Bonds is unpopular is his personality. Is that really why he is so bad and hated? The US attitude to doping seems to be rather more tolerant than it is elsewhere. Is that fair?

It's intolerant here mainly when baseball and "surly" black men are at issue.

It's not so much a toerant-of-drugs thing - as nothing has ever been proven. Look at how Palmero got treated after he was caught.
Bonds is just a dick. He once got his kid to cry on national television.

Ted Williams was a dick too (and the fact was widely reported) and yet he was almost always spoken of reverently, at least in retirement.

Sorry. I was not aroudn for that!
Ty Cobb tho - heard he was a prick - what was he like? ;)

For the zillionth time, here are my issues with Bonds treatment by the media:

1a) The media and the majority of baseball fans think that Barry Bonds would not have hit 73 HRs or 751 HRs without the alleged use of anabolic steroids or HGH.

1b) Of the 15 admitted users in MLB history and 17 positive tests (32 players total)... only 3 of them are bonafide power hitters (ie, career slugging average of >.500): Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and Rafael Palmeiro. If you add in Bonds based on his sealed grand jury testimony that he admitted applying a topical cream consistent with BALCO's "The Cream" for 2 weeks before stop using it because "it wasn't working" on his sore knees: than that is 4 out of 34. Including Bonds makes 11.76% of admitted/positive-tested steroid users "power hitters".

1c) If (per point #1a) steroids make you hit homeruns and give you power, why did it only help Palmeiro, Sheffield, Giambi (and Bonds)? (Caminiti and Segui only had two >.500 slugging average seasons between them).

2) Why are so many middle relievers and center fielders testing positive for steroids?

3) Jose Canseco was laughed at for his claim in his book that 50-70% of MLB players were taking steroids in the late 80s. Lyle Alzado's first steroid use was in 1967 when he attended a small Christian university in rural Iowa, hundreds of miles from any major metropolis. East Germany had been testing athletes and steroids since the late 1950s. Why should we assume that steroids in baseball began only with the home run hitters of the late 90s/early 00s?

Cosign

Somewhere, Marvin Bernard (sp?) is hitting 500-foot homers and popping back zits.

Bonds is just a dick. He once got his kid to cry on national television.

lmbo is this true? if so i admire barry more than ever~~

I think he means the 2005 spring training, when he had Nikolai with him while he talked about how his knee was busted and he might have to retire. The kid didn't actually cry, IRMO.

Oops! I mean 2006.

Wow he's worse than Benoit.

Nate Silver on BP:

Barry Bonds has not started 16 of the 91 games that the Giants have played so far this season. There are 260,462,895,672,871,000 (260 quadrillion) possible combinations of games that Bonds might have “chosen” to miss. For example, Bonds missing Giants games # 88, 4, 62, 18, 22, 23, 61, 2, 91, 54, 87, 10, 58, 19, 65 and 83 is one such combination.

Of those combinations, 1,200,635,647,008,340 (1.2 quadrillion) involve each of the three Giants games that have been nationally televised on ESPN this season, as well as any other set of 13 non-ESPN games.

In other words, the probability that if Bonds were picking 16 out of 91 games at random to miss, it would so happen that all 3 of the ESPN games were included among those 16, is 1,200,635,647,008,340 divided into 260,462,895,672,871,000, or about 215-to-1 against.

So this is relatively unlikely to be just a coincidence.

Well, ESPN games are largely early games on the west coast, and Bonds often misses early games after a night game the previous day. He might be missing ESPN games on purpose, but I think it isn't that unlikely that he could have done it for non-ESPN-related reasons.

BONDS ON BONDS

#752 out onto Sheffield with the wind blowing in. I'm guessing the ball didn't get thrown back.

Wow the Giants let him play a road game!

wow, there are gonna be PED-free brawls at the SABR con if he breaks the record that weekend.

753. He might just get this thing done today if Lou brings in Scott Eyre.

That ball was crushed.

The best part is that now that he's 3-24, he'll be walked like 10 times in the next series.

bEELZEBUD, GET TO MILWAUKEE!

Comcast poll during the Cubs game: 4:1 against Bonds breaking the record. HA HA TUFF SHIT

Also: Giants plz acquire one (1) bullpen pitcher.

I'm sure Sabean's working on getting some extremely ancient washed up closer as we speak.

Hey, Sabean got Vinnie Chulk from Toronto for Jeremy Accardo (who got the save against the Yankees and has filled in quite well for BJ Ryan out for the season).

Hillenbrand really helped our playoff push though, come on guys!

Aaron his his 755th in Milwaukee 31 years ago today, with Bobby Bonds in the field at RF.

What are the odds of that Nate Silver?!

good stuff.

Where was Bud Selig?

If you can make it past the idiot fan with the video camera, the crowd reaction to #752 is really great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ualSr5VfhwA