As much as we love baseball and love its associated numbers and records, we hadn’t been following the Barry Bonds saga all that much because, well, we think he cheated and helped taint several years of prime baseball. Yeah, that’s all. By happenstance, however, we were enjoying some beverages last night with the RandBall Better Half and another couple, and the Giants game was on. We saw Bonds crush the ball for a double in his first at-bat, and we thought, “He’s getting pitches to hit. Maybe tonight.” We lingered through his second at-bat and were almost about to leave when he came up a third time. The ladies at the table, not being of the baseball-loving kind, had heard of Bonds, home runs and steroids but required some explanation as to why this particular at-bat was a big deal. Raymond, as we’ll call him (because that’s his name), explained that at any moment Bonds could break the biggest record in baseball history. And he finished his lesson by emphasizing, “In fact, it could come on this pitch.” And the emphasis on pitch coincided perfectly with the crack of the bat that produced No. 756. So Aug. 7, 2007, will forever be remembered not for the day Bonds temporarily broke the home run record (he’s just keeping it warm, rubbing cream and clear on it for A-Rod), but for the day we found out Raymond was psychic.

“It’s, whatever you call it, ironic.” Love that quote from Justin Morneau, talking about the power outage in K.C. last night and how it mirrored the punchless Twins at the plate. Rondell White, by the way: pondering retirement.

The Paul Paulos comment archive (we miss PP, so we’re going to try to start running one old comment a day until he comes back to us): “Sassy, 404 I get, but Comedy gold?? What does that mean?” (Jan. 19, 2007, 10:50 a.m.)

Quickly: There will be no disciplining of the Moose. … Nobody wears a polar fleece like Tom Brady. … And, of course, Mystery Link! From SuperRookie. He had us at Ace of Spades.

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