bonds and the record-chase

ok, so......in my newly discovered fascination of baseball...i am appauled that barry bonds, he of recent connection to performance enhancing drugs.....still thinks he deserves to beat babe ruth's homerun record...this, from the nytimes...tuesday's game

Russ Springer's first pitch would have hit Barry Bonds in the buttocks if Bonds had not dodged it. The next pitch was headed for Bonds's ankles. The third one was so far inside that it caromed off the knob of Bonds's bat. The fourth pitch was inside, too. Springer's fifth and final pitch bounced off Bonds's right shoulder.

Barry Bonds was hit on the shoulder when he batted in the fifth against Russ Springer, who was ejected along with Manager Phil Garner.

In a brief, testy and telling at-bat in the fifth inning Tuesday night, Springer kept coming closer and closer to plunking Bonds, and he finally did. Springer, who had been warned, and Astros Manager Phil Garner were immediately ejected. Bonds did not say anything to Springer and seemed a little confused and a lot agitated.

When Springer walked off the mound, he received a standing ovation from the fans at Minute Maid Park. The San Francisco Giants were leading the Astros by eight runs at the time, so seeing Bonds — the player the crowd of 35,286 came to hate — being drilled with a fastball was enjoyable to them. The Giants eventually won, 14-3, but the Bonds-Springer confrontation dominated the postgame discussions.