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By now, it's apparent no one really knows quite how to deal with Barry Bonds. Even on a night when history was there to be made, there seemed to be a sense of unease about the whole thing.

Thanks to Juan Pierre, everyone has another day to think about it.
The skinny center fielder for the Chicago Cubs spoiled what little party Major League Baseball was planning to give Bonds for tying Babe Ruth's mark of 714 home runs. Pierre's catch postponed the inevitable.

Maybe that will give baseball some time to blow up a few balloons or buy some fireworks for when it really does happen. Or better yet, buy a first-class plane ticket for Bud Selig to come and watch the festivities.

While baseball is at it, maybe it can figure out what is in the ubiquitous garlic fries they sell at Pacific Bell-SBC-AT&T park that make fans continue to embrace a suspect slugger who has never even tried to return their love.
They were eating them by the boxful Tuesday night, stopping only to stand and cheer when Bonds came to the plate. But there seemed something almost perfunctory about the cheers, as if the believers didn't really believe.

On the road, fans chanted ``Balco Barry'' and taunted Bonds by calling him a pumpkin head. They put some effort into every chant, and put even more into every boo.

Aside from one lame ``Barry'' chant early in the game that quickly petered out, Giants fans seemed more eager to be a part of history than they were to bond with Bonds.

http://sportsillustrated.netscape.cnn.com/sports/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20060510%2F1849619498.htm&sc=2010
 
They aren't selling out that ballpark anymore either. It isn't even that big either. I think capacity is 42,000. The combination of Bonds being a cheater, a jerk and the Giants being in last place, has left Giants fans looking elsewhere for their entertainment. At least, in my opinion as a Dodgers fan. :D
 
simply put, the Giants aren't that good, and no one is going to go watch a team with a bunch of guys in their late 30's. Plus, Barry is not going to play everyday so why go just to see him get walked?
 
Im tired of ESPN cutting something Im watching just to show Bonds get walked. That pissed me off.
 
tylerdolphin said:
Im tired of ESPN cutting something Im watching just to show Bonds get walked. That pissed me off.
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ESPN has become Barry Bond's pimp. Not only do they have to cut away for every one of his at bats, but they have to pump him up so people will watch their phoney Barry Bonds reality show. You NEVER ever see Peter Gammons or Harold Reynolds say anything bad about Barry...they never question his steroid use, they never say he cheated.....they are total Bond's homers and apologists....INSTEAD they put the blame on Bud and major league baseball for not policing steroids. Bonds and ESPN have become a total joke.
 
i've been a diehard giants fan since 86. dodgers suck!.:tongue: i'm not tiring of bonds but i was never a huge bonds fan to begin w/. i wasn't happy when he 1st got signed out of pittsburgh. i thought he was arrogant and that mustache and ear ring were horrible when he 1st came over. but i actually feel kind of sorry for him now. he's not as bad as everybody villifies him to be. and who didn't juice it up during the mcgwrire, sosa and bonds home run era. there are a lot of guys stats who have dropped stedilly since they started testing roids on a regular basis. he basically has become the poster child and target for the entire baseball roids era. it's not fair to single one person out like that. the last few years he has tried to become more media friendly only to see it back fire for the most part. he has tried to be a better team mate by dressing like a girl for charity. nobody really notices, they are too busy happily bashing. and he put the smack down on kent in the dug out. kent missed his calling in life to be a texas state trooper. bonds has brought a lot of excitement and has been constant in his dominace as a giant. there will be a huge hole when he is gone.
 
Roman529 said:
ESPN has become Barry Bond's pimp. Not only do they have to cut away for every one of his at bats, but they have to pump him up so people will watch their phoney Barry Bonds reality show. You NEVER ever see Peter Gammons or Harold Reynolds say anything bad about Barry...they never question his steroid use, they never say he cheated.....they are total Bond's homers and apologists....INSTEAD they put the blame on Bud and major league baseball for not policing steroids. Bonds and ESPN have become a total joke.
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They're hypocrites also as the Mag has ripped him in atleast one cover. Their is alot of pressure on Barry right now at 713 and once he passes the Babe he'll put up better numbers. I think the blame is on Bud and alot of fans who were too naive to the homerun chase of McGwire and Sosa. Bonds has total control I believe over his show so I think it is manipulated to portray him in a positive light but what other player who had the control wouldn't do that?
 
can't wait till he retires.

and they're only a few thousand short of a sellout, so the fans still love him. but i don't care about him or any stupid homerun record. sometimes it's hard for me to take the game seriously when people care more about some individual record than the actual wins or losses, or some stupid "rivalry" between the yankees and sux.
 
culpepper2chambers said:
im not tired. id rather have them interrupt what im watching then not know right away
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when he hits one, fine intrerrupt what I'm watching. But don't interupt me to tell me he just grounded out...I don't care.
 
culpepper2chambers said:
im not tired. id rather have them interrupt what im watching then not know right away
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it's one thing to interrupt me when he actually hits a HR (those tapes are delayed not live, despite what ESPN says), but I don't want to see Barry Bonds fly out, or ground out when I'm watching PTI.
 
Rocky Raccoon said:
when he hits one, fine intrerrupt what I'm watching. But don't interupt me to tell me he just grounded out...I don't care.
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Yeah, interupting a show to say Bonds struck out, who cares!!!!!
 
Im also a giants fan...and im not getting tired.

And i'd like to clear up this misconception about fans not attending games. That 1 game a few days back, the giants played at noon, and they didnt sell like 2000 tickets, out of 42000. At noon on a weekday, ppl r busy. Kids have school, parents have work, etc. After that they've been selling out. Infact, they've sold out 3 games in a row.

Whether we want him to hit it or not, we all wanna see it. Hes still really valuable to the team. His on base % is .475, second in the league.
 
I dont know what took SF fans so long to tire of Barroid. I tired of him 10 years ago.
 
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