Homerun #756 sold for 752K and #755 sold for 182K exceeding some expert’s estimations.

Here is the news news article

I decided to research what hank aaron’s balls were selling at. The 714 homerun ball was never sold because aaron kept it. His #755 homerun though sold for 650,000 after 8 years. So it appears after inflation adjustement, barry’s record breaking homerun and aaron’s last career homerun ball, both have the same net worth.

I noticed today that Giants once again used the Giants name in spanish form “Gigantes” on their uniform in celebration of “latino night”. They have used this in the past also on days such as Cinco De Mayo, which is just sad, since that isn’t even an American holiday. I think this is absolutely disgusting for two reasons.

First off this is America I don’t want to see the Giants uniform mutilated with that crap. Second off this isn’t about diversity or any other international disguise that everyone is putting it under. This is about the baseball owners using indoctrination and trying to embrace the “latin culture” to make it easier for us to accept cheaper paid bodies from 3rd world countries, that are easy to manipulate because of language and poverty barriers.

David Sheffield was the first major leaguer baseball player to bring this issue to light, but many baseball fans like me are disgusted by the situation and have noticed this disturbing trend the last few years. We see a sharp decline in African-AMERICAN baseball players because these foreign spanish latinos are taking their job because not only are they cheaper to pay, but they also can threaten to send them back to their home country if they get out of line.

I’m really sad to see the direction major league baseball has taken the last 10 years or so. Pretty soon there won’t be any americans in MLB baseball anymore at this rate. Now there are some good players from south of the border, but you can find just as many good talented ball players in America without resorting to slave labor.

Well last night I went to the game in left field. During the 5th inning all the sudden I see a young girl(maybe 20) walking fast towards Bonds. Right behind her the security ran towards her and grabbed her(not aggressively more like a lead away) to lead her off. She approached bonds and bonds quickly shook her hand. I was in total shock seeing her run on the field. She seemed to be smiling as they escorted her away.

The funny part about it also was the fact the cop, you know the one who now is there as a result of the original incident of the guy walking on giants field, didn’t move a muscle. He hugged the wall and watched. Now I realize his job may not be to chase them down or it was a girl, but what if that was a guy or the girl was some nut? The cop looked like Joe Pesci, sorry but I had to heckle the hell out of that cop afterwards. I made sure he got an earful.

In other thoughts, it’s great to see the Giants win 6 in a row making it now 11 of their last 13 being wins. Last winning streak I was suggesting it was most likely all in vain(most were considering they were 15+ games back then), the Giants luck has seemed to always go the other teams way all season. But now who knows though, they are so red hot for so long, they just might pull it off. I know its a long shot, but who knows, I’m willing to believe in miracles after seeing so many Giant wins all the sudden.

Giants just won their 5th straight game in Florida today. It probably is a little too late to hope that this starts something good and that they eventually miraculously get into the playoffs. We have to remember that not only are they far back in the standings, but lost 5 straight with the pirates more than a week ago, with most of them in S.F.

Giants have had so many frustrating losses by one run, it is nice to see them win 5 games in a row, in a lot of the games they came back from behind too. Blowing a lead and not coming back again to win the game has plagued the Giants all year.

Now I realize Barry Zito has been a hot topic since the beginning of the season, mostly negative, but I held off talking about him in depth. He was on a new team and needed time to settle in. I personally didn’t feel the need to slam him, until some more time was given in the season.

I can confidently say now, that without a doubt, Giants got taken for a ride when they paid 126 million for his contract. Before Zito got signed with the Giants, I naively thought he was one of the best pitchers in the game. I had heard good things about him seen him pitch a few times when watching the A’s games. It wasn’t until watching him every game he pitched on the Giants, that I realized his fastball is only mid 80’s and his control is sloppy leading to a lot of walks and big innings. I don’t know what the Giants were thinking paying that kind of money?

This may be a bad year for Zito and he might be Cy Young winner next year. Who knows. But does it matter? If he is this inconsistent, he isn’t worth the 126 million. Period. A true ace is someone you can rely on. Zito has proven you can’t, at least not every season. No other team was even bidding close to offering the money the Giants offered.

So why did the Giants pay this kind of money? I think the Giants were desperate for the next rising bay area star, named “Barry”. Zito was going to be the Anti-Bonds, charming young and humble. In the process the Giants were too desperate and the Agent took advantage of that. The Giants need hitters more than Pitchers right now anyways, which is the greatest irony of it all.

I know I’m getting ahead of myself, but this news article I just read here brought up some interesting quotes from Bonds. Bonds seems to want to take up the challenge of surpassing his Godfather Mays 3,282 hits. Bonds would undoubtedly have to play in 09, if he wanted a shot at catching that number of hits. He would turn 45 in the middle of the 09 season. Let’s also not forget that Bonds probably would like to have over 800 homeruns while he is at it.

Remember in the beginning of the year, Bonds’ agent was saying Bonds could play for many seasons to come and had plenty of homeruns left in him. I’m just wondering if Bonds said something similiar to him to make him say that. There is a lot of things that will be going on, we don’t even know if Bonds will be back in SF next year, maybe he will wind up DHing in 08 or 09 for the Angels.

Please say it aint so, Mark Sweeney is going to be a Dodger! Read the newshere. It will be sad to see Sweeney go. I’ve always liked him. If they get a good hitter from the deal, it’s probably a smart move though. The Giants need a good fulltime bat more than a pinch hitter right now. The offense on the Giants is in bad need of a repair and relying on one guy’s pinch hit skills isn’t what the Giants need right now.

With not even a at-bat between the record breaking home run, he hit homerun #757 in the first at-bat of the game. The homerun wore its number well because it took off like a #757 and just kept on going into McCovey Cove as a splash hit. It was one of the farthest homeruns I saw and it was pulled right near the foul line.

Bonds no doubt, has his old swing back. Now that the pressure is off, I have a feeling he is gonna continue to pick up the pace and go well past 30 homeruns this year. The guy that caught the ball in the water, went off with security to get it authenticated. These seems to be the new way they will be marking the homeruns.

Well he finally did it! His first two at bats, he had 2 line drive basehits. He looked like his swing was back to his old self again. In his 3rd at bat he got up to a full count. In the next pitch he launched it towards center field in the triple’s alley area. There was no doubt it was gone when it left the bat. The crowd went crazy and the fireworks went off. The guy trying to catch the ball had about 10 people jumping on him. He finally got away with 6 guards surrounding him. Ironically the guy had a mets uniform on and was from New Jersey.

Bonds rounded the bases fireworks and confettie went off like they just won the world series. When he approached home plate, the team, Willie Mays, and Bond’s family was on the field. Bonds then addressed the crowd briefly. When he mentioned his father and cried out, that got me emotional there. Then attention went to center field after the speech. A recorded video of Hank Aaron was on the video screen congratulating Barry on his feat. It was respectful, and it was as if to say “Barry, you are the new Home run King”.

Bochy allowed Bonds to leave the game after that, but not before doing a few warmup throws in outfield in the next inning for the fans. In the press conference, Bonds acknowledged that Bud Selig gave him a phone call congratulating him.

I knew back in 03, before he was even close to Willie Mays, that he could break Aaron’s record. I think Aaron said it best to Barry, that this is a chance for us to be inspired to reach our own goals in life.

As for the other people who keep on bringing up that damn A-rod, He’ll never touch Barry’s record(whatever it may wind up to be in the end), not even close…

Congratulations Barry Bonds!!!

Well Bonds finally tied Aaron and he didn’t do it in San Francisco, but in San Diego. He hit a belt high outside fast ball to the opposite field. The ball was crushed in a ballpark that is even hard to hit on your own side let alone opposite field. It hit off the top of the face of the upper deck before a fan got it below.

Most of the crowd cheered and clapped for Bonds as he rounded the bases and hugged and kissed his son at home plate. Bonds got a warm welcome after coming out to outfield the next inning and when he left the game. Bonds was walked the rest of the game. I was actually surprised(like a lot of people) by the standing ovation for Barry Bonds in San Diego. I guess they realize how amazing that home run was and the acheivement of hitting 755.

When Bonds hit a popup in L.A 3 days ago that he seemed to barely miss I knew that he wasn’t going to worry about if he was in San Francisco or not to tie Aaron. Bonds took extra batting practice this morning and was aware of A-rod’s 500th homerun earlier in the day. I’m sure it played a small motivation for Barry because it seems rather coincidental he worked extra hard today in batting practice to get his swing back.

In the press conference he said that getting to 755 was the biggest hurdle. I agree that for him 755 probably is the hardest, compared to trying for 756. I think it will be easier for him to hit 756 now, as a big weight is off his shoulder. Bonds is off for saturday so we shall see if he breaks it in the home series in San Francisco.

Congratulations Barry Bonds.