Pedro Gomez Nearly Missed It
Uncategorized August 13th. 2007, 1:48pm
ESPN’s intrepid Pedro Gomez, the man with the awkward assignment of following around the every move of Barry Bonds for the last few years, nearly missed the money shot. Which would have been depressing for him, but comical for the rest of us.
Now that the Bonds story has run its course, and because the Giants are buried in the cellar of the NL West, we figure ESPN will give Gomez a two-month breather. In the interim, we’ll miss the relentless fervor in which he tracked the asterisk-maker, and we’ve got three names the WWL may want to consider for his next rigorous assignment: Alex Rodriguez (he’s going to hit 800, so might as well hitch on to that wagon from now!), Greg Oden (the whole Northwest thing may be challenging, but at least he’ll get a comment from the subject every now and then), and this pre-high schooler (but only if producers can catch Gomez dancing off camera to, ‘Make it Rain’).
ESPN’s Gomez Nearly Missed Bonds’ Homer (Daily Breeze)
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August 13th, 2007 at 2:00 PM
I heard Pedro giving an interview to ESPN radio the night the record happened. For whatever reason, I always assumed that he really liked Bonds, but listening to the interview, he was pretty relieved that it was finally over. I guess Bonds couldn’t stand him, and he pretty much felt the same way about Bonds, without coming right out and saying it.
August 13th, 2007 at 2:21 PM
Maybe I’m just a moron.
But I don’t see anywhere in that story where it says he nearly missed 756. The title of the dailybreeze.com story says that he nearly missed it. I didn’t read it anywhere.
It was an interesting piece, yes, but nothing about the near miss.
Did I totally read over it?
August 13th, 2007 at 2:27 PM
ESPN deserves an asterisk for hanging PG out to dry like that.
August 13th, 2007 at 2:51 PM
The headline embellishes the point a bit. It makes it sound like PG went to the bathroom and made it back just in time to see it.
What really happened was that, had the homerun been hit the next day, he wouldn’t have been there:
“No matter what happened, Gomez was flying home to Phoenix on Wednesday morning for a week off to take care of his three children while his wife traveled for work.
“I’m glad it worked out the way it did, because in a selfish, perverse way, I had invested so much time into this that I’d be disappointed if I didn’t see the payoff,” Gomez said Thursday.”
August 13th, 2007 at 2:52 PM
NDub…it was poorly written…but apparently he was taking off on the next day for a whole week because his wife was going out of town for work. So he was going home to watch the kids. So thats how he almost missed it…I was expecting to hear that he was dropping a deuce or something and got back to the press box in time which would have made for the better story.
August 13th, 2007 at 3:18 PM
Didn’t a SportsNight character miss Bobby Thomson’s homer because he was in the can?
August 13th, 2007 at 4:52 PM
I was at an Expos game a long time ago with my family and my father took my brother to the bathroom and missed what was like the 7th Triple Play in Expos history. Does that count?
August 13th, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Another meaningless post…
August 13th, 2007 at 6:13 PM
Thanks for stopping by, jay
August 13th, 2007 at 8:26 PM
You’re welcome.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:02 PM
Had never seen that video before now. Amazing. Granted, they are nine and ten year-olds he’s juking out of their socks, but the kid has moves. Hope he doesn’t blow out a knee or get messed up in drugs.