Baseball Irony
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by Scottduk1
I think it is Ironic that Barry Bonds is three away from the Home Run Record and is playing the Braves. He has a chance to pass Hank Aaron against Hank's team. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution describes it this way in an opinion poll.
"Fate is a cruel joker. Otherwise, how to explain the Braves facing the Giants at the time when slugger Barry Bonds is three homers away from breaking ex-Braves great Hank Aaron’s home run record of 755? “I’ve been grilling the pitchers to see which one is going to live in infamy,” Atlanta’s Chipper Jones told the AJC’s Carroll Rogers. “Who’s going to be the Al Downing of this team?”
If you’re Bobby Cox, how do you play this? Your pitchers for the series, barring unforeseen circumstances, are John Smoltz, Tim Hudson, Chuck James and Buddy Carlyle. Do you pitch Barry and risk having the Braves be the team that allows Aaron’s record to fall or do you ditch Barry by walking him and let someone else worry about giving up the fateful homer?"
I believe that you have to pitch to Barry and see what happens. He did not get a HR on Monday, we'll have to see about tonight.
