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Barry didn't play last night due to his legs being shot from playing Tuesday's 13 inning birthday game, thus disappointing a sold out stadium, Bud Selig, and scores of press from around the world who instead got stuck watching a very good pitching duel and Noah Lowry solidifying his role of staff ace. Maybe Bud Selig should institute some sort of "best interest of baseball" rule saying that if Barry isn't going to play, the Giants should announce it first thing in the morning so fans know they don't have to go, Bud can have a nice night out in the town, and all the press hordes can either go home or just hang out in the press booth and get drunk.
That doesn't mean that Barry didn't make some news, however: on Bob Costas's HBO show, Curt Schilling opened up his prolific big mouth and noted that both Barry and Mark McGwire have never actually denied or fought accusations of being on the juice. In response, Barry went after not Schilling, but Costas, and said: "You mean that little midget man who absolutely knows jack … about baseball, who never played the game before? You can tell Bob Costas what I called him." He then added about all the accusations, "don't worry, my day will come."
In other Bonds related fun, Grant from McCovey Chronicles has a column listing his "Favorite Barry Bonds Homeruns", a fun little discussion starter. In all honesty, we couldn't come up with much in the way of a list as he's hit so many of them, they all sort of blend into one. But we'll try anyways
There are three that stick in our minds. First up was his two three-run homer game in '93 against the Dodgers. We remember those because of the situation that surrounded them-- it was the last series of the last weekend of that incredible pennant race-- and because of a story our friend told us that after Barry hit the second home run, the cab driver of the cab he was in nearly caused an accident because he was so busy honking his horn in jubiliation. Then there was the one also against the Dodgers, in '97, the game before the Brian Johnson game. That one we remember, again, because of the circumstances but also because of that little dipsy-do maneuver he did after he hit it. We also remember it because we had tickets to that game but were stuck in some horrendous traffic and were somewhere in a Candlestick parking lot when it happened. Man, we were bummed. Then there were the two home runs he hit after the death of his dad, two dramatic home runs that would be spun into legend if it were done by anyone else who wasn't Barry.
Then we started looking through home runs that were mentioned and some of them came back to us. Like all those duels against Eric Gagne (who, we might add, perfectly fits the description of a juicer but has never been accused of it) or his moon shots in the 2002 World Series and at Yankee Stadium in '03. Those were awesome.
And yes, despite all of our noted ambivalence on the matter, this all gets to the root of our feelings towards this-- we've thrilled to Barry over the years as much as anyone but in light of everything, we feel icky about it. We don't like feeling icky.
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Sounds like Barry proved Schilling's point.