Enough Already

Now that Barry Bonds has tied Babe Ruth’s home run record, must every story about the San Francisco Giants be about Bonds? The headlines in today’s Yahoo! Sports baseball section about the Giants’ game reads “Bonds stays at 714 homers, Giants win”. It’s not until four paragraphs into the story do we learn that Matt Cain pitched the game of his lifetime, allowing only one hit and throwing a complete-game shutout. The Giants won 6-0.

This evening we watched half of the episode that deals with the Babe Ruth era, the 1920s, in the Ken Burns baseball series.