More Surgery for Bonds

There was an update today on the world's most famous knee as the Chronicle reported that one Barry Lamar Bonds recently had another operation on his knee. This one was his third this year and was done in an attempt to clean out an infection that came from a previous surgery. He has also had his knee drained several times over the past few months. Let us hear you say "owww." The shocking thing about all this is Barry has been notorious for recovering quickly from injuries. Maybe even a bit too notorious. For the first time, it's looking like he's not recovering. In fact, it's looking like he's recovering about as well as you'd expect a 41 year old with rickety knees to recover and that's the scary thought. He's been so good for so long that just the merest hint that he's mortal is a bit hard to take. It's like finding out that Superman can't save the day due to a bad back.

Even scarier is that those dark, icky thoughts in the back of all Giants' fans minds, that they just might not have Barry at all this season, is becoming more and more reality. Remember those halcyon days of yore when Barry was only going to be out for a month or two and all those shiny new free agent signings would mean some serious World Series booty? Sigh, those were the days. No Benitez, no cry. No Barry, cry. Sure, it's looking like the Giants are still going to be playing some exciting baseball this season, but when we say exciting, we say exciting in the same way roller coasters can be. Or skydiving. Or medieval torture.