[thekingofclout]

Poor Man's Willie Mays.

A Five Tool Player is one who can Hit, Hit with Power, Run, Field, and Throw.

Running and Speed aren't always the same thing.

When HOF manager Joe McCarthy was asked who was the best base runner he ever saw. He answered the question with a question: "Would it surprise you if I said DiMaggio?" He said he never once saw the Clipper make a mistake on the bases and had no equal going from first to third. Joe also had perfected the hook-slide so much so that several decades later no one has ever approached Joe's skill.

DiMag gets my vote.

BTW... Bonds couldn't throw hard enough to break a window! You mean to tell me you guys don't remember SID BREAM?! The Bucs lost a pennant because BARRY couldn't throw out Bream from deep shortstop!

NOTE: In '91 Bream, who had to be on the wrong side of 250 pounds, was also OH for THREE in Stolen Base Attempts for the WHOLE season.

So I'll give Bonds 4 out of 5 but let's get it straight, he was no DiMaggio.

Being a lifetime Halo fan, I also gave Barry an assist for our lone Title, as he was once again playing deep shortstop, this time with Home Run Champ (47 in 2000) Troy Glaus at bat in game seven with the go ahead runner on base (BTW...Glaus had gone yard 118 times from 2000-2002).

My first reaction when Glaus hit the ball is it was a deep fly to left/left center and was bummed until I saw Barry lumbering back, back, back, as the ball floated over his head. Bonds was certainly afraid history would repeat itself and expose his glaring weakness, but Glaus just missed the pitch and Barry couldn't run it down from his shortstop position. Thank you Sir! May I have another!