Bonds on the Springer Show
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By user Ray
No doubt most everybody on this site has heard or seen Bonds getting beaned by Russ Springer of the Houston Astros. To gauge public opinion of what happened, I went over to the ESPN boards to see what people thought. What I found surprised me.
There were lots of folks who thought Springer was a coward and a scumbag for what he did, Houston fans included. But I was surprised at the vitriolic and bitter comments left by MANY who absolutely hate his guts and LOVED seeing him get beaned. Now, while I am a Giants fan, I am no Bonds apologist and I do understand that he is not exactly loved, but man alive I couldn't believe some of the things being posted. The tone behind some of the words suggested that America was waiting for something like this to happen and a lot of that pent-up angst just poured out. I swear some of those folks wanted to eat Bonds's children!
Personally, I think that pitchers have a right to establish some authority over the plate but in this case Bonds wasn't really crowding it AND it took 5 pitches to rack up the HBP. I think Springer did himself, his ball club, and the city of Houston wrong by doing what he did as it smelled suspiciously like he just did NOT want any part of Bonds and could've went about it differently. Phil Garner is just as guilty as there was absolutely NO DEBATE when both of those guys were ejected.
Anyways, lots of people on ESPN's boards are trolls and/or uninformed sports "fans" who just mouth off. I respect the fans here at ArmchairGM a lot more and I wanted to know what everybody here thought about this issue as nobody's really posted about it just yet (which in itself was surprising). Tonight's game should be interesting to see how and when the Giants retaliate, as I'm sure Matt Morris will.
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Wed 05/17/06, 2:32 pm EST
