Bonds is an idiot

[craigharmann]

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Just don't understand the guy. To show up at a Giants event and make it about YOU? Come on, Barroid! You can say over and over you haven't retired, but you're done. And to call out Joe Torre? That was just weird.

[RoseBowlMtg]

craig he is incredible isn't he? Calling out Torre was interesting where I didn't know what he meant by saying he beat before. "Beat him"

 

I wonder if Torre was wondering what he was talking about.

 

Here are their career places:

 

Torre managing:

 

77-81 Mets

82-86 Atl

90-95 Cards

96-2006 Yanks

 

Barry's career:

 

86-92 Pitt

92-2007 SF

 

Barry's playoff opponents:

 

90 Cin (No Torre there)

91: Atl (Torre left 5 yrs earlier)

92: Atl (6 yrs earlier)

97: Fla: (Torre was with Yanks)

00: Mets: (see above)

02: Atl: (Torre left 16 yrs earlier this was Barry's first playoff win)

02: St L: (Torre left 7 yrs earlier but at lease it was a win)

02: Ana: (Torre is close to Anna now)

03: Fla: (Nope)

 

End of playoffs and no connection there.

 

The only time Torre managed a team in Barry's division was from 90-92

 

1990: Pittsburgh won 95 games vs the Cards 67

1991: Pitt won 98 games vs the Cards 84

92: Pitt won 96 games vs the Cards 83.

 

1990-92 when Pittsburgh last had great teams were better than most every team and Barry calls our Torre saying he beat him in the past. We knew Barry wasn't much of a team guy but bringing back something from 90-92? Wow!

 

There is no I in team Barry but there is a me!

[jjgott]

Eh, I didn't find too much wrong with it. Yeah, the whole calling out Torre thing was out of nowhere, but the Giants/Dodgers rivalry is a pretty big rivalry, and it seemed like Bonds was playing into that. This would be like if Favre came back to Green Bay during a Bears game and started talking smack to the Bears. He seemed like he was just talking smack and nothing else, trying to lighten up the mood.

[razzzorsharp]

Meh, it didn't seem all that bad but I have pretty think skin with this kind of stuff.

[homer]

I thought he was just giving Torre a hard time - seemed like he was joking around to me.

[jordanmuehl]

It seemed harmless to me, but it's Bonds - perhaps I've just become indifferent over the years at anything he does.

[Ennder]

I saw the video clip on ESPN and seemed like he was just joking around to me. Didn't have any problems with it even if I dislike the man.

[bigredrobbo]

There was an element of fooling around, but very definitely a "Bonds Agenda" in there too.

[theavrock]

Seriously? Man this guy could save 10,000 kittens and some people would rip him. I don't like the guy but I fail to see how he turned into being about him? The crowd called for him to speak and he was invited to the event. As for "calling out Torre." He was joking around, as someone stated the rivalry between the Dodgers and Giants is a pretty good one out in California and Barry was joking around about that to play it up for the fans. The guy is a jerk but sometimes its better to leave well enough alone.

[bigredrobbo]

Yeah, because the "come and get me, I haven't retired" line was all about the Giants and Dodgers...

[theavrock]

it was a joke. Have you watched the video yet? He was obviously messing around.

[afeter]

i didn't think too much of it. It sounded stupid, but he was at least trying to be fun. I cant help but think he is black listed. I would absolutely love to plug him in the brewers lineup. imagine him in the one or two hole. .450 on base in front of braun and feilder. He would improve our lineup so significantly i wouldn't think twice about his d in left.

[Blancofan1]

i didn't think too much of it. It sounded stupid, but he was at least trying to be fun. I cant help but think he is black listed. I would absolutely love to plug him in the brewers lineup. imagine him in the one or two hole. .450 on base in front of braun and feilder. He would improve our lineup so significantly i wouldn't think twice about his d in left.

If you don't care about his defense in left, where exactly do you have Braun playing?

 

I thought it was pretty classless, much like Barry overall in my opinion, for him to say most everything that he spewed out.

[Brian the Automator]

I'm about as big of a Barry-hater as anyone, but I really think this is much ado about nothing. He was joking around.

 

I'm more stunned that Giants fans still cheer him like crazy, even after every trace of him has been removed from AT&T/PacBell/CandleStick/Whatever.

[mothershipconnection]

I cant help but think he is black listed.

 

Functionally, yeah he's blacklisted, but I don't think it was a collaborative or calculated method. Rather, a bunch of individual teams all deciding they wouldn't touch the guy. He's just not worth it anymore unless you're starving for a DH.

[Invader3K]

I'm more stunned that Giants fans still cheer him like crazy, even after every trace of him has been removed from AT&T/PacBell/CandleStick/Whatever.

I remember that being discussed on "The Show" on MLB-XM this past off-season, and a lot of Giants fans that called in were fairly peeved about it. Rob Dibble talked about how hypocritical it was for the Giants to do that after making so much money off Bonds for years, and I tend to agree. I don't like the guy either, but it's silly to shove his legacy off in some corner after all the hoopla regarding his home run chase.

 

[afeter]

If you don't care about his defense in left, where exactly do you have Braun playing?

 

 

in right with cam as the odd man out.