Don't Make Barry Angry, You Won't Like Him When He's Angry.

#52
#52
allvol123 said:
He has grown extra ribs to help out with that scenario.
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:)Nice

I go back and forth on this. Part of me thinks it would be bush league to nail him and part of me thinks it would be perfect to at least knock him down.
 
#53
#53
Well it is not against the rules- in a sense- you do get a base for it, so I am sure Bonds is AOK with it. I am all for mowing him down.
 
#54
#54
I say aim for his oversized 'roided up head and see if the clear comes out instead of blood.
 
#55
#55
GAVol said:
:)Nice

I go back and forth on this. Part of me thinks it would be bush league to nail him and part of me thinks it would be perfect to at least knock him down.
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National League pitchers should have been throwing at him ever since he permanently adopted the cowardly body armor and started standing right on top of the plate. That's had a bigger effect on his hitting numbers than any steroid use.
 
#57
#57
Vercingetorix said:
National League pitchers should have been throwing at him ever since he permanently adopted the cowardly body armor and started standing right on top of the plate. That's had a bigger effect on his hitting numbers than any steroid use.
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like Barry is the only guy who's ever worn extra padding.
 
#58
#58
If I hear another thing about "chasing aaron" im going to explode. He will beat it yes, but give it a few yrs and Pujols and A-Rod will both shatter Captain steriod's record.
 
#59
#59
doozer said:
like Barry is the only guy who's ever worn extra padding.
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Bonds is the only major hitter I know who has made a living in recent years out of wearing extra padding on his elbow and using it to stand directly on top of the plate. Look at where he's standing next time you watch him hit. If you're the pitcher, you can't throw it inside -- that's where his elbow is. And you can't pitch him off the plate, because he's standing so far up that low and away is now within his easy reach. So you can do one of three things -- you can hit him, you can walk him, or you can throw it right in his wheelhouse. And I don't understand why NL pitchers didn't choose the first option more often once it was clear Bonds wasn't using that padding just to get over an injury.

There's a reason why in recent years such a huge percentage of his hits have been homers, and it's how close he's been standing off the plate. The outside pitch that other hitters just serve into the opposite field is about a foot off the plate when Bonds is hitting.
 
#61
#61
Vercingetorix said:
And I don't understand why NL pitchers didn't choose the first option more often once it was clear Bonds wasn't using that padding just to get over an injury.
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For the same reason they don't throw at Sheffield and didn't throw at George Bell or Albert Belle very often. The vast majority of them know if Barry comes to the mound, he will beat the living hell out of them.
 
#63
#63
Oh yeah, Sheffield. He's Bonds's vaginal henchman, so small wonder that he has taken what his master has learned to heart. Biggio's been a great, great player, but not exactly a hitter to instill fear in the pitcher's heart.

And it would make me laugh to see Bonds try to charge a pitcher. It would take him 20 seconds to get out to the mound.
 
#64
#64
Bonds would take a couple of steps toward the mound and wave his arms a little bit and then get really brave about the time both benches emptied.
 
#65
#65
The saving grace for Barry Bonds is that Bud Selig is worse at PR than he is.
 
#66
#66
Sheffield's in an interesting guy, actually. Sure, there was the stuff early in his career about him supposedly deliberately tanking it to get out of Milwaukee, but he's the rare baseball player who is A) obviously intelligent, and B) willing to speak his mind about anything. These are rare qualities in a profession full of cliche-spewing athletic types, so you've got to have a soft spot for him. Still, when he began his short tenure with Atlanta he was billed as disciple of Bonds, and sure enough, it turns out that he's apparently learned from Barry the virtues of A) seeking success through chemistry, and B) the strategic advantages of encasing vulnerable parts of your body in plastic. He's pretty much just Barry Lite, with a bigger (and much more interesting) mouth.
 
#68
#68
GAVol said:
Don't know that I'd consider Shef "obviously intelligent".
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I think he probably is. Obviously I've never met the guy, but the sheer act of expressing genuinely held opinons in the context of American sports and sports reporting is a pretty rare thing. He doesn't shy away from controversial topics, obviously, and he's willing to think out loud in front of cameras and reporters, and any time you're willing to do that, you're occasionally going to look like an idiot. I don't have to agree with what he says to recognize that this is a guy whose verbal skills (to put it in SAT terms) are probably way, way beyond most of the other guys in the locker room.
 
#71
#71
When I think of Sheffield, I remember something that Michael Kinsley once wrote about Patrick Buchanan, his longtime adversary on Crossfire: no column writer can ever seriously run for public office, because someone who has to spew opinions out on a regular schedule is inevitably going to thunk out some clunkers that are going to end up killing him. Likewise, any athlete who's willing to sit there and speak his mind in front of the cameras like Sheffield does is going to look like an idiot every so often. The guy may be wrong, or a nutcase, but he's not an idiot.
 
#73
#73
Good stuff, and of course he sounds like an idiot in many of those quotes. And maybe he is one. Both most American athletes just spit out this cliched sort of drivel, and many of the ones that don't end up sounding pretty freaking stupid -- the cliches are there to protect them, after all. Sheffield comes across as someone who, right or wrong, at least thinks seriously about the world he lives in, and that puts him ahead of 90% of his fellow carbon-based airbreathers.
 
#74
#74
GAVol said:
Bonds would take a couple of steps toward the mound and wave his arms a little bit and then get really brave about the time both benches emptied.
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Jeff King would beg to differ. So would Mackey Sasser.
 
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