I submit that he is the greatest of his generation.

I was not a fan of Barry until I started following him on social media. It makes me wonder how much of his perception back then was the result of his relationship with the media.

yessss. Not even a Cards' fan, but Musial is slept on historically

“So never swing at a ball. And hit all the strikes for home runs. Got it? Okay, now you try.” - Barry Bonds, hitting coach

Never forget:

Bonds 100% should be activated to DH for games they play in AL parks... I imagine the BA would be low but he’d still put up a .380 or so OBP

“Bonds once told Peter Gammons that watching David Eckstein play baseball literally brought a tear to his eye, because he was so inspired by watching someone who had so little talent and yet wanted it so much.”

Is it me or does his head look a little less...”nerve tonic-y”?

MLB is lucky to have him not the other way around.

You probably can switch Bonds for Manning and Padres for Chargers too right?

You need diversify your Bonds.

gotta get it all the way up in there if you want to be a real coach, Barry

You might want to check out their stories about that Bryce Harper fellow in Washington.

That picture of Barry Bonds and Ichiro in Marlins uniforms is so, so, so bizarre. Shades of Greg Maddux, San Diego Padre or Jim Thome, Baltimore Oriole.

Don’t be so quick to get offended, man. I bet he has a bunch of friends that are athletes.

Maybe not now, that he’s old and mellowed out. But in his prime....I bet Bonds tried to see if he could take a man’s head clear off with one swing.

Pop over to Gawker. Plenty of stories about miserable white people over there.

Yeah, right?? I mean what’s up with that! I personally am offended by those... those PEOPLE. You know what I mean?

Bonds was a critical part of my early sports consciousness, and gave me a dose of entertaining reality that Rugrats simply couldn’t. Ironic and somewhat tragic that reality was still somewhat tinged with falsity, but fuck it.

There’s something to be said of the fans now who grew into baseball watching and loving the…

Amen.