Still my favorite player. Until it is proven he took something illegal. Even if that happens, I still vote 'not crap.'

I was just waiting for a slow news day to make my 500th post. I'd like to thank my godfather, for showing me what it means to be a semi-professional typer, and my father, who typed hard day in and day out, despite never getting the respect he deserved as a typer.

tmidgett wrote:Still my favorite player. Until it is proven he took something illegal. Even if that happens, I still vote 'not crap.'

I was just waiting for a slow news day to make my 500th post. I'd like to thank my godfather, for showing me what it means to be a semi-professional typer, and my father, who typed hard day in and day out, despite never getting the respect he deserved as a typer.

Well, I do not know who this "Barry Bonds" person is. I just wanted to be the first to congratulate the Midge for hitting 500! He is MY favorite post-er. Until it is proven he took something illegal. Even if that happens, I still vote 'not crap'.

Just like Mayfair, I don't know who Barry Bonds is. But just like Mayfair I know that The Midge is The Man. Therefore, not crap.

Congratulations for the big 500, signore Midgett!

tmidgett: 500
BBonds: 659

Barry Bonds is one of the five greatest baseball players ever. He might even be the greatest. I watched Bonds hit a dramatic, game tying three-run home run off of Roy Oswalt last night. It was very exciting, and I enjoyed it.

Here's the point: Dramatic, game tying three-run home runs are all that any person can ask of Barry Bonds. It brings me enormous pleasure to watch him play the game of baseball. He is The Best. However, some people try to discount his achievements by talking about anything other than his performance on the field. Steroids? Are you fahgina kidding me? This non-description "steroids" covers a billion different type of performance-enhancing agents. Steroids has the same non-descriptive tenor as the term "drugs" when used to describe everything from caffeine to heroin. "Steroids" is such a non-descriptive term that it makes the person using it look foolish to me. So Barry Bonds built himself into a monster. Who cares? All I care is that he did so in a way that does not put himself at future risk, which to me doesn't seem likely considering his health and performance at forty years of age and his ridiculous exercise/stretching/nutrition routine.

Even more ridiculously, people call him "mean" or "self-absorbed". That's just absurd. Anyone who expects decorum from professional athletes is a fool. In fact, I like the fact that he is a scowling, menacing black man who walks around with a severe chip on his shoulder. He owes NOTHING to the fans and the media except his bat and glove. Stay that way, Barry, and don't ever devolve into a Stepin Fetchit clown like George Foreman, Charles Barkley or Sammy Sosa, three one-time bad asses who are now jokey little pitchmen.

I also like the fact that he did not get along with Jeff Kent, his former SF Giants teammate. Jeff Kent is a lying redneck.

NOT CRAP!!!

tmidgett wrote:I'd like to thank my godfather, for showing me what it means to be a semi-professional typer, and my father, who typed hard day in and day out, despite never getting the respect he deserved as a typer.

This joke is funny Willie Mays/Bobby Bonds joke. Salut, tmidgett, for funny joke of baseball.

Barry Bonds the ballplayer, hopefully there's no debate about that.

BB the 'human being'...who the hell knows? What can you know about anybody? He's never been arrested for domestic abuse, drunk driving, etc...

His "bad attitude" is irrelevant, really.

Why is his dome twice as large as it was about 4 yrs ago?

Jeff Kent and his porn 'stache are both CRAP.

Why is his dome twice as large as it was about 4 yrs ago?

his ears are just shrinking

Jeff Kent and his porn 'stache are both CRAP.

i wish bb had had the chance to administer a full beatdown, when kent laid into david bell in the dugout a couple seasons ago

Congratulations Tim!



andyk

man, talk about large domes

hasn't anyone picked up on the fact that _i_ am juicing up?

andy, now that you photographically mention it, i wonder who among us has the largest head

my hat size: 7 5/8, unless i need 7 3/4

brian orchard of 'brian' fame: gotta be an 8

barry bonds: ???

lord byron's brain weighed 4lbs, but i don't know how big a hat he needed

tmidgett wrote:my hat size: 7 5/8, unless i need 7 3/4

brian orchard of 'brian' fame: gotta be an 8

I'm rolling with a 7 3/4 or 7 5/8 cap size these days. Depends on the coiffure.

Brian Orchard and I had to order special baseball caps for the Electrons baseball team last year because of our big heads. Something like a modified golf cap with a strap on the back.

That being said, please be aware that my head is nowhere as large as that of Brian Orchard. His head is huge.

my head is large. it is true.

it is my father...and the pituitary.

they are the ones.