Pretty F'ing Sweet

So for 8 at-bats I was completely shook. Barry Bonds would come to the plate, the crowd would go nuts and Young Sip would get really nervous.

Depsite the fact that the guy can hardly walk and runs about as fast as a gritty but fiery Mama Sippy Momo, he was still Barry Bonds. The greatest baseball player I have ever seen and maybe the most dominating athlete of a sport in our lifetimes, including Michael Jordan.

For 8 at bats he was God.



So Big Fella hooked up seats last night 4 rows behind homeplate. They were the best seats I've ever had, sans game 3 of the 99 NLCS when Nails hooked us up in row 2 for Al vs. Tommy The Spy in a dreadful 1-0 Braves win via Monster's 1st inning throwing error.

I'm kind of a baseball geek and am just obsessed with pitchers. Throwing 90 mph along with dunking a basketball are just things that I can not do. Shit that I can't do really frustrates/amazes me.

So I can't say I would admire Shitty Trachsel's stuff from 4 rows back. Dude is just pretty f'ing boring.

But Jamey Wright, the Giants starter last night, was another story. He was throwing hard. He topped out at 95 and consistently hit 93. He had a sharp curve ball that resembled the pre-completely fucked up shoulder of Young Sip circa 1994.

In short, it was really cool to watch him warmup between each inning.

He was at the top of the list until the bottom of the 9th... Billy Wagner.

When Billy Wagner came in I saw something cooler. Billy was throwing a ton HARDER that Jamey Wright.

It was weird because BW hasnt looked his best this season. He's been topping off regularly at 93-94. It didn't make sense. Then the inning started.

According to the ballpark gun BW was regularly hitting 97 and was topping out at 98. It was pretty fucking cool.

What was a lot cooler was when Barry Bonds came up.

As I said, for 8 at bats I didnt think we stood a chance. Bonds was a much better hitter than the pitcher we put up there. These pitchers include Glavine and Heilman, two of our best. It didn't matter. Bonds was in control.

But not this time. Watching lefty on lefty, Wagner vs. Bonds was just a totally different story.

Bonds had absolutely no chance. Wagner's 97 mph fastball was too much for Bonds to catch up to and his slider was unhittable. Wagner OWNED Barry Bonds.

Not even Pedro could do this to a hitter. That's how dominating Wagner looked.

For the fist time in almost 24 years, against the best hitter I have ever seen, did I know that we are flat out better than our opposition.

The opposition was the best of all time.

It was pretty cool. Thanks, Billy.

VCD,

SM