Community Projection: Barry Bonds

AB: 397
AVG: .310
OBP: .515
SLG: .610
HR: 38

AB: 356
AVG: .286
OBP: .441
SLG: .575
HR: 28

PA: 493
Avg: .327
OBP: .545
Slg: .610
HR: 34

It's all or nothing in my mind.

I loved the line that despite Barry Bonds missing 100 games the Giants were still able to win the NL West in 2007, although I was a little worried that it was followed by "as no fewer than 10 key players had career or near-career years, including young standout Todd Linden who batted a startling .500 in Bonds' absence."

I'm so glad to see I'm not the only Giants fan wearing rose colored glasses.

PA: 460
Avg: .303
OBP: .520
Slg: .660
HR: 33

Show 'em Barry !!!  

PA: 210
Avg: .220
OBP: .430
Slg: .390
HR: 8

AB:410
AVG:.327
OBP:.440
SLG:.684
HR:42

The return of Barry Lamar "Edmund" Bonds.

sssssssorry:

AB:240
AVG:.248
OBP:.388
SLG:.515
HR:16

PA: 510
BB: 137
HBP: 10
AB: 363
2B: 20
HR: 35
TB: 234
AVG: .300
OBP: .502
SLG: .645
OPS: .1147 (.100 better then anyone else in MLB)
MVP Votes: ZER0! (media will prove it's bias)

     

A haiku for Barry Bonds:

Old man still strikes fear
though he rides his swan song now.
Splash landings abound.

AB: 385
AVG: .339
OBP: .480
SLG: .660
HR: 19

Bonds will hit most of his homers in the first half, but will be forced to play more than was "planned" this spring due to an anemic offense around him and a horrific record when he sits. He will tail off toward the end of the season and will not break the record but will win a batting title. The Giants will re-sign him for $20 million, he will break the record in May of 2008 and promptly retire, saying publicly that the Giants should have signed him to a two-year deal in the 07 offseason and never should have kicked Harvey out of the clubhouse, that they are getting what they deserve. The Giants will sue to recover the remainder of his contract, but MLB will intervene, saying the Giants have no recourse, that they are getting what they deserve for being the sole source of steroids for baseball, football, track and field, cycling and California governors.

AB: 380
AVG: .285
OBP: .454
SLG: .598
HR: 22

I want to see him put up numbers like those listed above because it'll likely propel the Giants to the NL West crown.  But, just as much, I want to see Bonds put up those numbers to have the baseball world question for a second just how freaking good he is...and to have him smile when all the "steroids" talk comes out and say something to the effect of "you thinking that I'm cheating now?"  Okay, okay, probably not going to happen, I know that.

Am I the only one (HERE) not looking forward to 756?  I won't be angry when it happens, but I really won't be that happy about it either (as a milestone.  I'll love it as a couple more Giants runs, we'll need em. And I'm sure i'll go crazy if it happens when i'm at the yard.) I'm mainly dreading the negative attention - much of it undeserved, but a good deal of it legitimate - that it'll bring to the Giants and to us as a fanbase and a city, which are much higher priorities to me, and I'm sure to most people here, than Barry's individual glory.  

For me the ideal situation is 20 HR (giving him 754), 75 doubles, a .600 OBP, an NL West title and a Cardinals-style World Series run with our killer rotation (bolstered by the rise of the Enchanter and a July trade of Morris to... Tampa for Scott Kazmir? i can dream) and 7 or 8 BarryBombs per series.  We win it all, Bonds takes the prize he really wants - a title and a WSMVP - goes out like Jordan after #3 and we don't see him again until Cooperstown in 2013.

But, why not, here's what'll actually happen:

AB=370
HR=36
AVG=316
OBP=489
SLG=675
BB=174
K=32
RBI=99
Times Dan Wetzel writes "BALCO Barry" in articles about Bonds=76,428
Times Dan Wetzel writes "BALCO Barry" in articles not about Bonds=9,474
Number of people who give a shit what Dan Wetzel thinks= -17