Bonds Within Two

Barry Bonds hit two homers Thursday, number 752 and 753, at Wrigley Field. Bonds is now just two behind Hank Aaron.

Writing about Bond's feat in the Chicago Sun-Times, Jay Mariotti was a little short on magnanimousness:

As the ball ripped through the summer sky, much like a syringe injected into soft tissue, a spooky sense of finality settled over Wrigley Field. The villain is going to win, isn't he? A grand jury can't stop him, the commissioner can't stop him, old age can't stop him, and the weight of overwhelming public disapproval can't stop him.

Barry Bonds, creep of creeps, is about to own the mother of all baseball records.

And there's nothing we can do about it except watch and grow physically ill.

San Francisco still appreciates Bonds. City Hall is illuminated with orange lights and a flag hangs from the mayor's balcony that tracks each home run that Bonds hits.

According to Mayor Newsom:

Barry Bonds is one of the greatest baseball players of all-time. For the last 14 years, he has entertained us at the plate and in left field, and more recently, his splash hits into McCovey Cove have become synonymous with San Francisco and Giants baseball. I think I speak for all San Franciscans when I say, "GO BARRY."

Go Barry.
Photo Credit: AP/Eric Risberg)

Comments

[Walter E. Wallis]

Locally they will not repeat my comment - when they announced Bonds was two short, I said "That is what his ex said."