As thrilled as I still am about last night, all of this has made me nostalgic for the baseball days of my childhood years, the stuff of fathers and sons.  It's the good stuff, and the not-as-good stuff, that gets churned up every time "Field of Dreams" is on TV, and every time Barry swings and connects.  

I'm curious to hear some of your memories as well, especially as a Giants fan who grew up on the East Coast and did not have as geographically close a connection with the team as many of you did.  

And a big tip o' the hat to Baron and her awesome post for bringing some of this back to me.

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ESPN's anti-Bonds bias is, I think (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong), well-documented and well-known by the McCoven.  

From Karl Ravech openly pulling for A-Rod to break the career HR mark Bonds doesn't even hold yet so that it's more "pure" (no link or video, but I saw this on "Baseball Tonight" with my own eyes), to the current asterisked cover of ESPN: The Magazine, to the plague that is the ongoing Pedro Gomez commentary, ESPN has made their feelings on Bonds crystal clear.

But this article by Wayne Drehs (currently front-paged on ESPN.com), ostensibly about the security personnel who guard Bonds during games, is the closest I think ESPN has come to actually wishing someone would take action to stop Bonds's pursuit of 755.  

Okay, so maybe I'm overreacting.  But (after comparing a potential attack on Bonds to the Robert DeNiro character stalking Wesley Snipes in The Fan), did Drehs really have to include this line:

"So, as it pertains to Bonds, could life horrifically imitate art? Nobody knows."

I have mixed feelings about Bonds and the allegations and all of that, but I am increasingly annoyed with the way ESPN has covered his career, and this Drehs column goes just a bit too far as far as I'm concerned.

Someone please shoot me down if I'm way off here.

Okay, so I am officially looking forward to football season.

I love the Giants, and I always will, and as much as I'll bitch and moan about how much they suck this year, I know I'll still soak up every minute of their games that I can catch on TV (I live on the East Coast).

But, having said that... I prefer the Giants that are in the World Series. This year.

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