BARRY BONDS = NOT SPECIAL















Well, all the home runs and stuff are. And even before he naturally doubled in size sometime in his early 30's he was actually very special. And even as a kid he was very special because his dad was an awesome baseball player. But Barry Bonds is not special for receiving death threats, as he told some radio show that no one listens to.

Every professional athlete gets death threats. My aunt threatens to stab Orioles back-up catcher Paul Bako in the leg on the third Tuesday of every month. The crazy guy on Houston and Crosby with the orange footy pajamas threatened to kill me the other day if I didn't stop dribbling my basketball down the street.

The real loser in all this is manager Bruce Bochy. His size 14 head is no match for Bonds. And these Barry Bonds death threats are destroying him. Look at the picture of that care-free and seemingly confused young man from 1970's on the left. Now look at current day Bochy on the right. It's almost as if time has aged him somehow. He looks like Dennis Miller. But he's probably funnier than Dennis Miller.

(FULL DISCLAIMER: I have a ton of Barry Bonds rookie cards that I need to unload, so let's say we all help in driving that market back up. Also, Barry's cousin Ira Bonds is one of my Facebook friends.)