Life after Barry Bonds sucks

Visiting AT&T Ballpark on Sunday for the first time this season, it became obvious the San Francisco Giants missed Barry Bonds before I even stepped foot in the stadium. Here are a few snapshots about what I'm talking about (photos by BSlim):

Without Barry: McCovey Cove was a ghost town.

With Barry: McCovey Cove was a fire hazard.Without Barry: Look at all the empty green seats and that out-of-place No. 40 in left field.

With Barry: Butts were in the seats. So what if those asses were bruised from steroid injections.

Without Barry: The left fielder is Dan Ortmeier, who has yet to hit a home run this season and tripped over the bullpen mound (which hasn't moved in years) and took the header that allowed the White Sox to turn a 6-6 game into a 9-6 laugher on Sunday.

With Barry: No hustle in left field, which means that ball would’ve fallen in for an easy single. Barry would’ve walked over, picked it up, lobbed it to the cutoff man and kept at least one of the runners on – and kept Ortmeier from making a fool out of himself.

I’ve looked everywhere for the video of Ortmeier’s face plant, but haven’t been able to find it. If you find the clip, or a photo, send me the link. I’m guessing nobody’s posted it because nobody watched the game. Even the fans at the ballpark were more interested in the final minutes of Game 7 of the Celtics-Cavs series than the Giants game, which was tied 6-6 and about to be decided on Ortmeier's gaff when a majority of the fans at AT&T were huddled around the TVs at the sportsbars.

But I guess you’ll have to take my word on it, because Barry wasn’t there and nobody seemed to care.