MIKE BACSIK'S PHONE WILL RING TODAY

"Obviously we're both not in major-league baseball for different reasons. That's probably why the moment is not being celebrated in baseball, not only because of the steroids people are talking about, but because neither of us is playing in major-league baseball. You'd have to go find Barry where he is, and you'd have to go to a minor-league city to find me to talk about it."
(Mike Bacsik, via SF Chronicle, 8/7/2008)

A year ago today, Mike Bacsik became a footnote.

But really, now, nobody cares. Not about Bacsik, not about Barry Bonds and his phony HR crown. Correction: maybe people care more about Bacsik, actually. Not in a million years would we have believed that night a year ago that Bacsik would still be getting paid to play baseball (albeit in AAA) in 2008 and Barry Bonds would be sitting on the sidelines all year waiting for his phone to ring: banished.

Still hard to believe the Nationals didn't take a chance on him this season. Bonds, we mean; not Bacsik.

(AP Photo/Ben Margot)