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Bonds Joke Sweeping the NationFollowing San Francisco slugger/protein addict Barry Bonds's two home run performances on both Tuesday and Wednesday, thousands of broadcasters, journalists, and sharp-witted fans across the country have garnered mild laughter and polite chuckles by noting that the slugger is on pace for 324 homers this year. Bonds set the major league record by hitting 73 home runs last season, and his early power surge this year has sports writers and fans everywhere wracking their brains for something clever to say.
"I'm already working out my follow-up joke," added Harper. "If he hits another one today, I'll say, 'Man, at this rate, he'll break the record sometime in mid-May.' Heh, heh! Zing!" "I sent a fake headline in to the ESPN website, hoping they would run the story," said Java developer/lonely sports nerd Alan Rickshaw of Cleveland. "I haven't heard back from them yet, but I'll bet they want to pay me for it." "I heard the joke last night on the local news, then again this morning as I was listening to The SportsMouth on the drive to work," said baseball fan/water cooler comedian Norm Nixon of Tampa Bay. "It was hilarious, so when I got to work, I immediately told my co-workers. They must have thought it was pretty funny, too, because they didn't jab me in the throat with pencils like they usually do." Still, public response to the joke has not been entirely warm. "'Barry Bonds is on pace for 324 home runs.' Yeah, ha ha," sighed fan Jake Ottoman of Kansas City. "I might have laughed a little the first time I heard it, but now I've heard it twice on the radio and seen it on 4 TV shows and about ten websites. And if I get another email about it, I'm going to start dipping people in goose crap and burying them in my garden." Barry Bonds was busy consuming two pounds of Creatine and was unavailable for comment.
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