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