May 8th, 2006
I can’t find a picture of it on the web, but the Philadelphia Inquirer splashed it across the entire top half of the front page of the Sunday sports section: It’s a shot of Bonds standing in left field at Citizens Park on Saturday night. Behind him, Phillies fans have hung an enormous banner–it must be 50 feet long–which reads:
Ruth did it on hotdogs & Beer.
Had Bonds broken Babe’s record that night, this banner would have been in all of the pictures, for forever. It’s so hateful.
So perfect.
Update: Galley Friend J.E. emails this Bonds quote from the AP:
Bonds was peppered with insults from the Philadelphia fans during the weekend games.
Asked if it was hard to listen to the catcalls, Bonds said, “Dodgers Stadium is worse than here. This was nothing. LA beats them.”
Touché, Barry. He knows how to hit Philly fans where it hurts.
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