Manny is radioactive!

[El Supremo]

In more ways than one.

Record crowd at Isotopes Park. He did not address his suspension. Maybe he should cut off all his dreads like Vlad Guerrero and take a new identity.

[joeybee12]

1. Bonds was always loved in SF... same for A-Hole in NY...

...just wait til he has to play an away game where the fans aren't blind, deaf and dumb.

[Upton]

2. BIG Difference

unlike A-Fraud or Manny...Bonds has never admitted to KNOWINGLY using steroids or been definitely connected to a dirty test. At this point in time he remains an innocent man.

[joeybee12]

3. WRONG! He has been connected to a positive test...but you are right that he's

never admitted to knowingly using it...because HE THINKS PEOPLE ARE STUPID! Arrogant SOB.

[Upton]

4. If you're referring to BALCO

those tests were excluded by the judge in the current perjury case... a direct link to Bonds cannot be proved without the testimony of Greg Andersen. .

[joeybee12]

5. No you've got it wrong again...the test in 2003 is excluded .when he tested

positive...and Bonds was told that he tested positive on that test. Then committed perjury when he said he never knowingly had taken steroids, and that alleged cream that he took he thought was just something harmless and THAT positive test came after the 2003 test that he knew about, but Congress didn't and no one really did at the time, so he figureed he could claim that cream was just a one-time thing. Lying, hypocrtital, arrogant a**hole.

[Onceuponalife]

13. Just click your heels three times

and say "There's no place like home.." and it will soon be over.

[abq e streeter]

6. I'll be there tomorrow night

[cboy4]

7. I cannot wait until I witness the kind of "welcome" this tool is going to

receive when the Dodgers come back to San Francisco!!

What a punk.

[hughee99]

8. 'Cause if there's one thing Giants fans hate

it's steroid users in another uniform. :evilgrin:

[El Supremo]

9. +1 !

[cboy4]

10. While it's true we do not like players cheating, it's more

egregious (I'll hang on while trumad frantically flips through his dictionary) the player is a member of the hated enemy rivals from Southern California.

[Arkana]

11. Wait...there's an actual team called the Albuquerque Isotopes?

I thought that was just a creation of the Simpsons.

[El Supremo]

12. Yes...

and it was.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. They Named Themselves After The Episode

In which, of course, the Springfield Isotopes never actually moved to New Mexico.
GAC

[joeybee12]

16. Did they really?

That's great! :D

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Yep

In the episode, the owner of the Springfield Isotopes was supposed to be moving the team to Alberqueque. Homer found out and did a hunger strike. He became a protester named "Hungry, Hungry Homer". He tried to expose them, but they made him look like a lunatic (ok, that's not that hard).

But, at the end, they got him to end his hunger strike by offering him a hot dog, which had something like guacamole and corn relish. He got the crowd to understand that those were southwest cuisine, and Duff Man broke and exposed the whole thing.

The owner of the Alberqueque Indy League team loved that episode and changed the name of his team. I think that was in 2004, but i don't remember for sure.
GAC

[joeybee12]

18. Oh wow, if I didn't hate the Dodgers, I'd cheer for them!

I remember that episode well...Duff Man is one of my favorite ancillary characters.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Mine Too, Joey

He's so smarmy that you have to love him. I think it's Hank Azaria who does the voice, but it might be Harry S.

GAC

[joeybee12]

20. It is Hank Azaria...n/t

[Onceuponalife]

15. I wanna get me one of those hats.

Best farm system in baseball.

[Upton]

21. Oh really?

ESPN (Keith Law.. Scouts Inc.) this past winter didn't even have them in the top 10...Giants were #9.

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/insider/columns/story?columnist=law_keith&id=3848691&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fmlb%2finsider%2fcolumns%2fstory%3fcolumnist%3dlaw_keith%26id%3d3848691

[Onceuponalife]

22. They must be slipping then

I haven't really checked in a while. They always seem to have plenty of talent coming up. I know they used to be considered the best. Players like Loney, Martin, Kemp all came up through the system. The problem is it is very hard to crack the lineup so a lot of those prospects end up elsewhere (Konerko, Werth). I'm sure they'll be back on top soon. Go Isotopes!