Barry Bonds: Hero
As Barry Bonds approaches the hallowed mark of 755, I have taken the time to reflect on what the slugger means to San Francisco, and how nobody else gets it.
Rick Reilly, my most favorite sports writer in the entire UNIVERSE!!!OMGROFLZLOLLERSKATES, of course wrote his 4,596,303 article ripping Bonds to pieces in the most recent Sports Illustrated. What a bitch. This guy complains so much about Barry taking steroids and being a complete dick, that I'm beginning to think that he actually, literally, wants to suck his dick (yes, total homo).
In his most recent article, he called us fans here in San Francisco "Kool-Aid drinkers", which really ticked me off. I mean, first of all, Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple had their biggest following here, so, Rick, totally not cool.
More importantly, I just don't see how sports writers, and just people around the country, can't understand why we love Barry Bonds. He was the player of the 1990s, hit 73 homeruns in 2001, led our team to a World Series in 2002, is the only member of the 400-400 club and the 500-500 club, and now is the only position player who can hit on the entire fucking team. We've seen him do this all in front of us for the past 15 years, playing for our hometown team, and we're not supposed to cheer him on? If it weren't for him, this entire organization would be in the shitter. Imagine the memories he's left us with. We're supposed to boo? Throw syringes at him? No fucking way. I cheer for my team, and its best player. The fact that he is a dick to reporters doesn't bother me, because I have grown to hate most sports writers these days (and yes, he's probably a dick to teammates as well, except no one has really ever expressed that except for Cunt, ahem, Kent). The steroids thing? Well...
Let me put it this way. Lance Armstrong won 7 Tour de Frances in a row. After undergoing intensive chemotherapy. 7-in-a-fucking-row. The European media, especially the French, have published numerous articles and books concerning doping allegations held against Armstrong, which I for one am certainly glad are all false. The French hated Lance during his incredible run. It couldn't be possible, they thought, that a man who lost a lot of his career to cancer was able to dominate a sport, when all of his best competition had all eventually been linked to doping (Landis, Basso, Ullrich, and now Rasmussen, for example). Yet we Americans loved him , he was our homegrown hero after all, and he had never actually tested positive (coincidentally, Rick Reilly also loves to ride Lances jock, total homo). Sound familiar?
Clearly, there are holes in the comparison, but I stand by the general principles. I just don't understand why it is so hard for people to accept the fact that Bay Area fans will never betray Barry.
On another note, when discussing plans for 756, Duane Kuiper said that Russ Hodges' call of Robbie Thompsons "Shot Heard Round the World" was the greatest moment in sports commentating history ("The Giants win the Pennant! The Giants win the Pennant!").
I respectfully disagree, and nominate this choice, featuring the voice of Victor Hugo Morales:
1 comment:
I completely agree Mikel. It really bothers me when Sportswriters hate on SF fans for celebrating the greatest baseball players to ever play the game. They get mad when we defend him and place the blame squarely on San Francisco, claiming that if Bonds had played for another team like Chicago or New York, the home fans would have turned on him and not supported his pursuit for 756. Simply not true. There's the saying that everyone always sights, "He may be an asshole, but he is our asshole." And it's definitely true. Bonds along with Magowan's ownership team saved the Giants in the summer of 1992 from moving to St. Petersburg. Before then we were a team on verge of being bought and moved to Florida with no superstars to speak of, and afterwards we were all of a sudden a contender for the NL pennant with the best player in baseball exciting fans daily. Jay Mariotti who I now despise just recently called us Blind Sheep in an article. It's getting ridiculous. These people have no concept of reality surround bonds. Go to the McCovey Chronicles (the Giants fan operated blog, completely independent from the team) and check out a letter the blogger wrote to Mariotti. Its a good defense of SF fans as well as a funny damning of Jay.
More importantly: RIP Bill Walsh. Someone who followed the niners more in the 90s than I did should write an article about him. His West Coast offense cleared changed football forever.
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