BAMAPHIN 22
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Catching a ghost turned out to be no easier on the road than it was at home. At least not for Barry Bonds.
En route to a 10-1 win over the Houston Astros, guys hitting around Bonds in the Giants' lineup Monday night demonstrated that with good timing and a little pop in the bat, driving a baseball beyond the outfield fences in Minute Maid Park hardly required Ruthian power.
But it must have looked and felt otherwise to Bonds.
In one of those ever-rarer interviews the slugger has granted recently - outside of those earnest bits he does for his infomercial, ``Bonds on Bonds'' - he mused before the game:
``This thing, it's like chasing two ghosts, you know. I can imagine what Roger Maris went through. Babe Ruth, I think he just kind of hovers over people a lot.''
When a young reporter asked a follow-up question moments later, Bonds shut him down in a hurry.
``You wouldn't even understand it, kid,'' he said. ``I don't even know how much you know about baseball, really. It's too long.''
What's too long, to be sure, is the homerless skid the greatest power hitter of his era finds himself sliding on. At his current pace, Bonds' chances of ever matching the 755 homers put up by Hank Aaron - the second ``ghost'' - have all but disappeared in the distance.
http://channels.netscape.com/sports/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20060516%2F0031106024.htm&sc=2010
En route to a 10-1 win over the Houston Astros, guys hitting around Bonds in the Giants' lineup Monday night demonstrated that with good timing and a little pop in the bat, driving a baseball beyond the outfield fences in Minute Maid Park hardly required Ruthian power.
But it must have looked and felt otherwise to Bonds.
In one of those ever-rarer interviews the slugger has granted recently - outside of those earnest bits he does for his infomercial, ``Bonds on Bonds'' - he mused before the game:
``This thing, it's like chasing two ghosts, you know. I can imagine what Roger Maris went through. Babe Ruth, I think he just kind of hovers over people a lot.''
When a young reporter asked a follow-up question moments later, Bonds shut him down in a hurry.
``You wouldn't even understand it, kid,'' he said. ``I don't even know how much you know about baseball, really. It's too long.''
What's too long, to be sure, is the homerless skid the greatest power hitter of his era finds himself sliding on. At his current pace, Bonds' chances of ever matching the 755 homers put up by Hank Aaron - the second ``ghost'' - have all but disappeared in the distance.
http://channels.netscape.com/sports/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20060516%2F0031106024.htm&sc=2010
