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i keep waiting for an image or something to come up in that space - my computer is slow - but it has yet to materialize so i guess you mean - nothing -.

I met barry bonds while living in SF, i was working for the food bank at the time and we were working on a project with kids whose parents were in shelters. we had organized a sort of one day baseball camp/meet barry bonds. the kids were sooooo excited and soooooooo cute and waited and waited and waited.. and fiiiiinally, bonds shows up, two and a half hours late, barely says a word to anyone, poses for one picture with the kids and then leaves with a gaggle of assistants or whoever trailing behind him, yelling that he was busy, had another appointment. the kids just thought it was cool to be in his presence for all of 2 minutes but everyone else thought he was an incredible JACKASS...

Jif, the nice thing about BArry Bonds is that after last night's record-breaker and many achievements on the diamond, he's still that same incredible JACKASS you ran across that day at the food bank. He puts the 'me' in fame.

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the best thing about him breaking the record is that it is now in the past tense.

An incredible non-event.

maybe there is hope.... naaa.

On a more upbeat note...

My mother's family was old school East Texas and I grew up visiting the small towns and farms of this area and of course eating Southern food. Since there appears to be more than a few Southerns around this site may I suggest "The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook". While I know how to cook most everyting southern the book is well worth the purchase both for the recipes and the short stories accompanying each chapter/recipe. T

I think it is great. His personality aside, he is one of baseball's all-time great hitters and deserves his place in history.

If you are going to put an asterisk next to his name (this will never happen), you better bring in a truckload of them to hand out to everyone else in MLB especially pitchers. The fact is Bonds is just the biggest target right now.

Sports is full of jerks- get over it.

Ours is a Yankees household where Babe Ruth is essentially God, so you can imagine what hubby has to say about Bonds' "achievement."

John Schultz makes a good point*

Liberal Commie Pinko hybrid-driver.

John Schultz from San Francico, by any chance? You clearly drank the kool-aid.

hee hee! Mr. John Schultz is about as NOT from San Francisco as someone can get, as he can corroborate.

And he can shred a hell of a guitar solo.

Congrats to Bonds.... This is a record that took many years of perseverence and good health to break... was he juiced? Baseball doesn't care if he was.. do they even test their athletes?
Where do the asterisks begin in the record book? Yeah, he's a jerk, but a prolific hitter and that is what he is paid to do.

I saw Barry at the DAP one time... 3 homers in one game...WOW!! Congrats to Barry. I thought his post game comments were very good...maybe the best of his career.

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Hank Aaron's record was more than an athletic accomplishment. The context of his acheivement made it legendary. His record year was spent looking over his shoulder for a white hood and a rope not a sweet new endorsement deal.