The Best on the Diamond
The baseball season is almost twenty games old and right at the moment, there isn’t anyone hotter that the Yankee’s Alex Rodriguez, despite the fact that the Yankees are on a six game losing streak A-Rod is on fire. In my humble opinion, the secong hottest team in baseball is the red hot Philadelphia Phillies - who are riding a streak where they’ve won five of their last six. No surprises there, on another site, I predicted A-Rod to shine as this years AL MVP, and, much like the Phils animated shortstop, I predicted the Phils to run rampant in the east.
The surprise comes at who is the next hottest:
Forty-two year old Barry Bonds has seven homeruns over the course of the Giants first 17 games putting him at 741 for his incredible career, just fourteen away from tying Hank Aarons all-time record.
Bonds has homered three times in his last six games and has led the Giants to eight straight wins, making them the hottest team in the game right now, in either league.
Honestly I thought Barry was through, after missing virtually all of the 2005 season, and managing only 26 home runs last season, which was his lowest total since 1991, I thought maybe he didn’t have anything left in the tank. But if you’ve learned anything from coming to this site, it’s that I can most certainly be wrong. (I predicted the Phoenix Coyotes to make the playoffs for God sakes)
Bonds has been on an offensive tiraid, along with his seven homers, he has 15 RBIs and is batting .346. If Barry’s body can sustain this pace, he’ll have the all-time homerun crown all to himself by the end of May.
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