Three ...

[Frayed Knot]

Giants are losing 4-1 in Wrigley, but the one is Bonds's 652nd

3 to tie.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You mean 752nd, of course.

We're running out of time for that career-ending injury I've been rooting for.

[Frayed Knot]

D'oh!!

wishful thinking perhaps

[G-Fafif]

Make it two. 753 just now off Ohman. Cubs announcers couldn't sound less thrilled.

[nymr83]

Giants have 3 on the road with the Brewers before returning home Monday, does Bonds sit? does he play until he hits one and then sit? theres a million dollar souvenir and tons of publicity and ticket sales here, do the Gianrs make sure it happens at home?

[Frayed Knot]

Good thing he sat out the previous three games I guess huh?
Without that mini-vacay he might have hit the record HR in Wrigley where
they not only would have thrown it back but they would have thrown it AT HIM.

[G-Fafif]

Milwaukee, eh? Not a long hike for Commissioner Selig.

[stevejrogers]

G-Fafif wrote: Milwaukee, eh? Not a long hike for Commissioner Selig.

Also the same neighboorhood that 755 landed as well where many of the 755 were hit.

[stevejrogers]

="Nymr83"]Giants have 3 on the road with the Brewers before returning home Monday, does Bonds sit? does he play until he hits one and then sit? theres a million dollar souvenir and tons of publicity and ticket sales here, do the Gianrs make sure it happens at home?

The Atlanta Braves actually tried to do that with Hank Aaron at the start of the 1974 season. With Aaron just 1 short of Babe Ruth's record, the Braves wanted to sit Aaron out of the opening weekend in Cincy and to tie and break the record in Atlanta.

Bowie Khun sensed the funny business and forced the Braves to play Aaron in Cincy. He ties the record there and of course on April 8th in Atlanta vs the Dodgers, well you know the rest

[metirish]

Hey,if the Astros sit Bigggio so he can get hit # 3000 at home then surely the Giants will do the same,but the Brewers and Cubs are in a tight race and sitting Bonds would be just wrong,I don't believe Bonds would do that actually.

[Guest Iubitul]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: We're running out of time for that career-ending injury I've been rooting for.

Makes me glad to know that I'm not the only one rooting for that.

[Willets Point]

Maybe Bonds will gracefully retire at 755.

[Centerfield]

I'll be rooting hard for Barry over his next three games. I hope he hits three HR's a game.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I hated those cutaways to Bonds in Milwaukee during Saturday's game.

Bonds is at 753 home runs. I don't see why we need live coverage of his 754th home run. Big deal! It won't tie or break the record.

I'm almost as fatigued of Barry Bonds as I am of President Bush. (And that's saying a LOT.)

Enough already. At one point I was enduring a 12-pitch at bat by Barry and wishing I was watching on TiVo-delay so I could fast-forward.

[Centerfield]

The worst part about it was them cutting back and finding Brad Penny standing on second after having doubled. This, of course, convinced me that something bad was going to happen every time they cut away.

[Frayed Knot]

ONE

Barry hits #754 in the 1st inning against Florida

[DocTee]

one down, one to go.

[Frayed Knot]

btw, the Mets have done their part in a fruitless effort to keep Bonds from breaking this record.

So even though he has more ABs against the Mets than any other team except LA & SD (and those are close) the only NL teams that have served up fewer HRs to him are the two he played for (SF & Pitt) plus some of those who haven't been in the NL for the entire length of his career (fewer against Fla & Milw, but more against Col & Ariz).

In other words, he's hit HRs against the Mets [u:7f87470c39]at a lower rate[/u:7f87470c39] (about 4.7% of the time) than any other team with a significant sample size.

[Frayed Knot]

And former Met Mike Bacsik is the answer to your trivia question

[Frayed Knot]

More barely significant Met-related trivia:

- the guy who snagged the ball is a Queens man who was wearing a Met shirt at the time




Wild-Assed possible future coincidence:

- the same night Barry hit #756, 19 y/o Justin Upton hit his 1st.
Upton, younger brother of Tampa's B.J. and another member of the recent Norfolk, Va invasion of players, was the first round draft pick of the D'Backs just 2 years ago.
He was called up last week amid much fanfare from touts calling him the best looking prospect since Griffey or ARod and is off to a 7-for-17 start including 5 for extra bases (3 2Bs, 1 3B, 1 HR).
It would be a wild coincidence - given the juxtaposition of the one player's record-breaking HR and the other's 1st HR - if he were to eventually reach Bonds's total.
That such an event will be incorrectly cited as "irony" by some broadcaster won't be a coincidence, it will virtually be a given.