Hey - Where's The Sports Talk?

I know I've been slacking - life does that sometimes & I'm not getting paid as well as most major leaguers for producing at only 30% like they do. I'm not getting paid at all come to think of it, so stop with the nagging emails about how "so much is happening in the sports world & I haven't weighed in on anything" Jeez!

I still don't have time to address everything, but here's what I shot out earlier when an old baseball buddy mentioned in an email that "Barry Bonds is toast":

Barry is beyond toast. He's toast crumbs. If this case goes forward, he'll either be found guilty & go to jail for a long time, or a short time & either way, will be suspended forever by the league when that's over. He'll never play again (unless he makes a Longest Yard-The Baseball Version situation in the pen) which is fortunate, because I can only take so much hate in this sport I love, & I'm completely consumed with hating A-Fraud right now. Barry Bonds doesn't even exist to me.

Of course, if I'm honest, he never really did. I only tried to be a decent Giants fan for friends who liked them - but deep down, I always, always, always knew it would come to this extreme with Bonds. The G's are lucky to have cut their ties with him just in time. Makes me wonder if the Mitchell Report got leaked to them a bit early so they would have time to put some substantial space between them.

I think Frisco has a real chance to make something of themselves now & I truly hope this could be Barry Zito's banner year (although I'm fairly sure that won't come til 2009 at the earliest.) But think about it: What better way is there to flip Bonds the bird than to win it all & rub that ring right in his face?

Bitter? Moi? :-) Not too bad as far as these things go. I'm more upset about Super Marco getting traded from my A's more than anything else. Although our AAA mounds needed attention & this will open up a nice spot for Donnie Murphy.

I swear I can remember being at at least 15 games where Scutaro knocked out a walk-off game clincher, including 1 I wrote about here, but his stats show he only did it 9 times in his career here. I guess I'll have to wait & see how it all works out. I just have this nagging suspicion that Marco won't be as lauded in Canada. He barely makes Ingles words okay, how's he supposed to pull off French!?!

Barry Bonds Is Leaving San Francisco Giants (Finally?)

The Giant organization is about to announce that they will not be offering Barry Bonds a contract for 2008 (surprise, surprise, surprise eh?)

Bonds is now saying he’s disappointed & ticked off that he didn’t have more time to ‘say goodbye properly”. He thinks the front office planned this a long time ago & I’d bet he’s right. In all seriousness, what did he think was going to happen? The way I see it, there’s really not much either side has to offer one another now.

I would have said the same thing at the end of his last (injury hampered) season, but with that darned record looming, what choice did the G’s have but to keep him & enjoy all the money that would inevitably flow their way. Knowing that kind of cash would be coming in allowed them to offer the most expensive contract ever for a pitcher, who they said they wanted to specifically keep the media off Bonds’ back – which Zito did by sucking rotten eggs for the first half of the season.

So any thoughts on this out there? He says he’s not going to retire. He wants to try & get a World Series Ring which probably means he’ll be a frickin’ Yankee. Then I’ll get to officially hate him so that makes me happy. J

Sticking up for Barry Bonds?

Okay, so we can all agree that I hate the Yankees, correct? So you should never be surprised about me posted trash talk about them, right? But do you also realize that I have never been a big Barry Bonds fan? This of course is something I’ve been actively trying to get over, as I’m a newly sworn Giants girl now. J

Personally, I think the guy acts like a jerk. Not necessarily to teammates & coaches & family & such I guess, considering that those seem to be the only people who ever have anything nice to say about him, & repeat it every time they’re asked as though they truly mean it. But he has been a real booger in the past to those of us who (I deem) really matter, the press, i.e. the fans, & worse, the fans who blog.

Professionally, the guy is a true ballplayer. Just because I think his attitude is crap, doesn’t give me the magical ability to simply ignore his stats. Asterisk *them maybe, but that’s a whole other topic.

But here’s where things get interesting. Here is some history in the making folks, because I am about to defend Barry Bonds. Or at least call Ray Ratto of the San Francisco Chronicle a rat bastard for turning his traitor pen upon the truly faithful Bonds fans in the Bay Area. This ‘reporter’ has actually had the audacity to ‘predict’ exactly how Bonds’ season will go by publishing ‘Your Official Barry Bonds Calendar Of The Chase’’ Here’s the highlights, click here if you want the whole thing.

“…already give you the days on which he won't hit record No. 756: April 9 through 17, April 23 through 29, May 10 through 20, May 24, May 28 through June 7, June 14 through 21, June 28, July 2 through 12, July 16 through 22, July 30 through Aug. 5, Aug. 13 through 20, Aug. 30 through Sept. 6, Sept. 13 through 19, and any day after Sept. 26. These dates cover the days in which the Giants either do not play at home, or at all, and you may rest assured that he will not be wasting 756 on people who might boo him.”

“Bonds will at some point in mid-May announce that all is forgiven between him and his good friends in the media and wants to get along with everyone. He will then go 7-for-38, announce he has been too nice to everyone and declare that nothing is forgiven and he needs nobody outside his immediate family (and agent Jeff Borris). He will then hit again.”

“His knees will act up right around July 3, and depending on the All-Star Game voting, he will either be back on the 9th or the 13th. He will also have an undisclosed muscle pull (undisclosed because Major League Baseball now controls all medical information about the players, a development the players will rue in good time) early in August that might cost him the Dodgers and Padres road series, but he will try to come back in time for the softer and gooier Nationals and Pirates.”

“He will play one of the three games in Atlanta Aug. 14-16 upon learning that Aaron will be "out of town." Just as, once he hits 753, Bud Selig will be just as out of town, no matter what town that happens to be at any given moment.”

“He will hit The Homer Sept. 11, at the Big Phone off Arizona's Livan Hernandez. It will be a warm evening, the game will be delayed for 35 minutes while chairs and microphones are set up and everyone associated with the team tries to figure out how to celebrate without looking too effusive, and the video tribute will be properly grainy to give it that historically significant/Bonds On Bonds feel. Barry Zito will monitor all questions to make sure the tone is properly reverential.”

I realize that a seasoned player like Bonds does tend to seem a bit predictable, but even I would stoop this low & pretty much all him out like this. Way to ensure that mid-May, Bonds will want to talk to anyone & everyone but you Ray.