We now return you to your regularly scheduled losing team.

[madbaker]

I went to the Giants game last night with a broker and a cow-orker.
So I was on the first-base side in the lower boxes for Bonds' record-breaking home run.

Love, hate, or apath him - this was part of baseball history. The Hank Aaron video speech was awesome. Having Mays and Robinson on the field was cool.

And in a not-unexpected finish, the Giants lost.

My cow-orker left early to catch a train home. He left ten minutes before Bonds hit it out. Adding injury to that, the train was cancelled.

Comments

[misagillian.livejournal.com]

Wow! You lucky thing! Wish I'd been there. Glad you got to see it.

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

cow-orker not a co-irker?

Congrats for watching history unfold!

[strmonkey.livejournal.com]

While I am not a fan of Bonds (I know way too much about the roids investigation) I think he is a great baseball player. That must have been awesome to watch, many congrats on that one.
Big tear in your beer for the cow-worker?

[maestrateresa.livejournal.com]

Y'know...the juxtaposition of that user pic with the abbreviation "'roids" just sent my mind to all *sorts* of wrong places involving Preparation H.

[tsgeisel.livejournal.com]

Congrats on being able to witness history. I caught it on the radio as it happened, and feel good about being able to get that close.

Apropos of nothing, check this out: http://www.sacbee.com/161/story/313154.html (absolutely work safe - baking related)

strictly by the numbers

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

Hollow, not hallowed By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports August 7, 2007
an excerpt---
Technically, Bonds swung, connected and sent a ball out of the park 756 different times in his 22-season career. But it takes Easter Bunny-level gullibility to believe he did it naturally.

His numbers are nonsensical – most notably the absurd 73 homers in 2001, a total 19.7 percent greater than Roger Maris' mark of 61, which hasn't been touched without massive suspicion in 46 years and counting.

Forty-six year old records don't just fall by 19.7 percent. Or even by the 14.7 percent Mark McGwire exceeded Maris' record in 1998. If someone were to shave 19.7 percent off the current world record in the mile run (3:43.13), he'd finish at 2:59.2. Yes, a three-minute mile. You think you'd believe something so statistically improbable? How about 100-meter dash in 7.8 seconds? You think your grandkids would buy that one, or mock it as some old fish story?
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