Your daily Barry Bonds update…

May 4th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

Lots of Barry Bonds-ness coming out of Milwaukee last night. Barry got plunked in the head by a ball during batting practice. This is funny for a number of reasons.

First, because it’s Barry Bonds and he has a huge freakin’ head. Second, because as Deadspin pointed out, it reminds us of that Seinfeld episode where Elaine’s ex-boyfriend tells her she has a big head and she laughs it off, but later when a bird flies into it, she starts to think otherwise.

And third, because of this guy – Mr. Bob Chiarito Jr. Thanks to Dave Wischnowsky over at the Chicago Tribune, we caught wind of this guy’s quest. Bob has spent around 800 dollars of his own money creating a rather amateurish anti-Bonds website (www.walkbondseverytime.com) and buying t-shirts to hand out, which he did last night in Milwaukee. (Bob made the trip up to the land of cheese from the suburbs of Chicago last night.)

It’s not some much that we disagree with Bob’s sentiment, (he claims he isn’t anti-Barry Bonds, rather he just wants to keep the ‘integrity sanctity and purity of the game for the kids’) it’s just that well, why?

Does he really think pitchers are going to listen to him and Bonds will never see a pitch to hit again? And what happens when ol’ Big Head passes Ruth? What does Bob do then?

And doesn’t walking a guy every time also destroy the integrity of the game by possibly altering the results? If he succeeds in his quest, isn’t he doing the same thing he is working so hard to quell?

We’re just asking.