IGT 05/07, Mets go to Barryland part l

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Does anyone really care what Barry Bonds is up to besides ESPN? There's
a Barry on the hill too, you may have heard of him ...

O. Perez (3-2, 3.41)
B. Zito (2-3, 3.52)

[metirish]

I care, one of the best to ever play is about to break one of the most revered records in sports,Selig should care,he helped create the monster.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

One vote for Bonds.

Actually, if you're into the home run countdown start a thread since it's getting
closer. I remember the night Hank broke that record, I'll be sad if it's broken by him.

[metirish]

Were you not sad that Hank broke Ruths record,I ask because apparently from what I read and hear a whole lot of Americans were pissed that Aaron broke...

[Benjamin Grimm]

Mostly those were the racists.

I hope Barry Bonds breaks his ankle, and soon.

[Frayed Knot]

]because apparently from what I read and hear a whole lot of Americans were pissed that Aaron broke...

No, not a lot.
A handful of racists plus some Yanqui fans who get upset whenever one of their records goes out the window - but, by far, they were not the majority.

There are also always some fans (particularly in baseball) who think that everything was better back in the good old days and that a modern player breaking anything must mean it's tainted. Rose breaking Cobb's hit record ran into some of that.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

I'll be beaming myself if Perez outshines Zito tonight.

[Gwreck]

Count me in among those hoping we lay a serious smack down (what, our $76 million wasn't enough?!?!) on Zito tonight.

New York Mets
Reyes
Wright
Beltran
Alou
Delgado
Lo Duca
Green
Easley
Perez

=orange]San Francisco Giants
Randy Winn RF
Omar Vizquel SS
Rich Aurilia 1B
Barry Bonds LF
Ray Durham 2B
Benji Molina C
Pedro Feliz 3B
Todd Linden CF
Barry Zito P

[metirish]

] A handful of racists plus some Yanqui fans

Surprise,surprise.....

In no way was I thinking that kC was among the racist people.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

mi: >>>Were you not sad that Hank broke Ruths record,I ask because apparently from what I read and hear a whole lot of Americans were pissed that Aaron broke<<<

Nah, I was only like 11 or 12. I was aware that Aaron took thousands and
thousands of more AB's to do it and Babe Ruth wasn't anyone to me but
a legend which really even now is still kinda true to me if not more so.

I still think Mr. Bonds isn't out of the woods yet with respect to just how dis-
picable a bullshit artist he is. He does seem to have a teflon-coated knack
about him that will eventually bite him in the booboo imo.

Someone start a Bonds HR record thread.

[TransMonk]

Vizquel should go join the circus.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Vizquel stubbornly refuses to retire.

[Guest Edgy DC]

But there does seem to be an OJ-like gap between the way he's viewed by blacks and by whites.

The ballpark grass looks synthetic.

Omar impresses. Isn't he 40?

[nymr83]

]But there does seem to be an OJ-like gap between the way he's viewed by blacks and by whites.

which i find strange considering he is breaking a black man's record, if he were chasing pete rose (well, ok, if he were chasing a white guy people actually like...) i'd expect the difference, here i'm not sure why it exists.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I guess because he's a black man accomplishing great things and the media is generally painting him as a villian. Hank Aaron is an abstraction in this context.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Last year, I just though Ollie looked silly up at the plate.

Silly me. Dude can rake.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Oliver can hit some.

Zito's curve is breaking like a sonovabitch, and he hangs in there and bangs it back up the middle.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Wright's broken two bats against a guy who's fastball tops out around 85.

Location, location, location.

[Guest Edgy DC]

A Kevin Mitchell jersey sighting.

[TransMonk]

I saw it, too.

[nymr83]

Edgy DC wrote: I guess because he's a black man accomplishing great things and the media is generally painting him as a villian. Hank Aaron is an abstraction in this context.

the media should be taking the opportunity to heap praise on aaron

[nymr83]

We're scoreless in the 4th, is anyone else staying up for this one?

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Still here. I'll probably wind up passing out right before the excitement starts, just like on Thursday.

[TransMonk]

0-0 tie in the 4th featuring 2 decent lefties...I'll be here until someone wins.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm up.

And nekkid.

[Batty31]

I'm here.....

Nekkid, huh? Hmmmm...

[nymr83]

things we didn't want to know...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, Randy Winn ruins everything. I've got to get dressed now.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Does the Giants PA announcer have to act that excited for every batter? I'd imagine it would get grating pretty quickly.

Bonds has a .524 on-base percentage. That's a big number.

[Batty31]

OlerudOwned wrote: Does the Giants PA announcer have to act that excited for every batter? I'd imagine it would get grating pretty quickly. Bonds has a .524 on-base percentage. That's a big number.

I was going to comment that the PA announcer was annoying..then I thought it was just me.

Bonds goes down looking...