Nats Vs. Bonds Round 3

Wednesday 8 Aug 2007 Nats vs. Giants Game 3

Well the atmosphere of this game was more or less back to Earth. Last nights game was a circus up until the 5th inning break for history, tonight's game was more like a regular game and didn't stop just because somebody hit a ball out of the park. Guess what? On his first at bat on the second pitch Barry Bonds hit homer number 757 a ball that thought it was a crashing jet plane and plunged into "McCovey's Cove". The Giants fans acted more like regular baseball fans and not just a pack of vultures waiting for a victim to finally die. The end result was very disappointing the Nationals were skunked 5-0. They HAVE to win tomorrow's afternoon game to split the series. Why oh why did the Giants pick this 4 game series to start coming back?

Racing Presidents Bobbleheads!

I was going to make a post similar to this but since someone already did, "Why re-invent the wheel"?

One of the cool give aways for this Nats season is the "Racing Presidents: Bobbleheads". Yes they are real bobbleheads depicting the four characters of the U.S. Presidents that race around the warning track at RFK (Next Year they will do it at Nationals Park).

Here is a link that shows them:
http://nats320.blogspot.com/2007/06/racing-president-bobbleheads.html

Mike Bacsik, Barry Bonds & Hank Aaron Connection.

Well the Baseball history books now have Barry Bonds as the Home Run King with number 756 to break Hank Aaron's reign of 33 years as Home Run King with 755. Washington Nationals Pitcher Mike Bacsik was the (un)fortunate pitcher number 446 to get homered off of Bonds.

In a sort of destiny fulfilled odd-ball fact, Mike Bacsik's father (also named Mike) not only had pitched to a Bonds, Barry's father Bobby in 1979, but also to a home run king with 755 homers notched onto his bat (Hank Aaron). The senior Bacsik (Texas Rangers) had pitched to Aaron in Aug of 1976 but did not give up homer number 756.

Believe it or Not Robert R. Ripley.

Nats Vs. Bonds Round 2

Game 2 Nationals vs. Giants

In a very exciting game for the most part, the Washington Nationals beat the San Francisco Giants 8-6 in game 2 of 4. Felipe Lopez got things started for the Nats when he solo homered in the top of the 3rd putting the Nats on the scoreboard with 1 run to the Giants 2. Then a few batters later Austin Kearns hit a 2 run homer bringing in Ronnie Belliard putting the Nats on top 3-2. Brian Schneider Homered in the 4th to tie the game 4-4, The Nats would score 4 more in the 8th.

OK now for that Bonds fellow. In the bottom of the first, to the disappointment of the Giants fans Bonds only Doubled, he would then be brought home by Bengie Molina. Bond's second at bat came in the 3rd and again to the collected sighs of the Giants fans he only got a single. He would again score this time on the 2 run homer by the guy behind him in batting order, Bengie Molina. This brought the Giants in the lead 4-3. Oh yeah then in the 5th on a full count of 3 balls and 2 strikes with nobody on base, he knocked #756 over 400 feet deep center off of Mike Bacsik to put the Giants in the lead again 5-4. He then started to take the field at the top of the 6th but came out.

Finally the "Chasing Aaron's Record" is over, we can all get on with our lives, and enjoy baseball again. After the media circus stopped the game in it's tracks and Barry gave his heartfelt speach the game resumed and got back to business as usual. The question is will Bonds be in the lineup tomorrow night? Who knows? Will anybody be paying attention when he hits number 757?

Nats Vs. Bonds Round 1

The Washington Nationals are trapped in the Giant Bonds Home Run Circus.


The quote Experts unquote have predicted that Barry Bonds, in his effort to break Hank Aaron's Most Career Homers Record, will hit number 756 at home against the Washington Nationals. He tied the record on Saturday (04 August 2007) with number 755 in San Diego. Well Tonight Monday 06 August 2007 (very late for us on the East coast) he didn't do it, but the Nats lost to the San Francisco Giants in extra innings 3-2 in the bottom of the 11th. The Nats had their 6 game winning streak snapped, while the Giants snapped their 3 game losing streak.

The game went most of the game tied 1-1 seeing as both teams had scored in the 1st.

No homer for Barry but Dimitri Young Homered in the 10th to put the Nats ahead 2-1, unfortunately the Giants came back and tied it 2-2, taking it to the 11th, where the Giants loaded the bases and won with a single. UGH.

Mr. Bonds was held hitless in four at bats, he fouled out to third in the first inning, walked in the third, grounded into a double play in the fifth and struck out in the seventh, while each pitch was accompanied by a paparazzi of flash bulbs going off.

On the one hand I want Bonds to go ahead and break the record already so the media circus will move on to other fish to fry, but on the other hand I don't want him to do it while playing the Nats. One game down three more to go.

Voyagers on DVD Today!

Another WOOOOOOOHHWWWHHOOOOOOOO!
The early 1980s TV show The Voyagers about a bumbling time-traveler and a 12 year-old kid who joins him in his travels who fix problems in history for the better. It is the same premise as Quantum Leap (Time-Traveler "lost" in time trying to fix things for the better with no control over where or when he arrives). I am tempted to get it today, but I really should wait until at least after this friday which is payday.

Torchwood!

Hey guess what? I saw a teaser (Very teasing teaser, just the show title type teaser) for the Doctor Who Spin-off series Torchwood on the BBC America Cable station. the show is coming in September. D'oh! I don't remember the exact date it's supposed to start. Well I'm sure I'll see more promos for it and start to get sooooooooooooooo tired of the promos that the start date will be drilled into my head by the end of August.

Doctor Who 2.3 WooohWhooo

WooohhhWhhhooooo! Sci-Fi Channel has started showing Season 3 of Doctor Who starring David Tennant as The Doctor and Freema Agyeman as his companion Martha Jones. When I first saw the reimagined Doctor Who series (with Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor Number 9, Tennant is now number 10) I thought they were going to do some major screwing-up, but luckily they did some things that were OK in my book. I won't go into details here, I think I might have gone into some detail on one of my Kirk's Knook episodes. For details on them see my website, or find out about The DIN email newsletter/blog from my buddy TJ. Maybe I'll give more in-depth details on my thoughts on this series later.

Do you Squidoo?

I recently found a self-promoting website called squidoo.com and started my own page which they call a lens. My page can be found at http://squidoo.com/captkirk42. Basically I hawk this blog, my ebay store and my ecrater store. You should be able to find links to them over on my righthand side bar over there ->

I'll Title This Later... Maybe

I came up with a new term today. Wacky Potacky Don't ask me to explain it because if its Wacky Potacky it's totally weird, unusual or just plain strange.