Doug Ose: “Mr. Speaker, I cannot tell you how pleased I am to be down here. Having been born and raised in California, I have been…”

“Mr. Speaker, I cannot tell you how pleased I am to be down here. Having been born and raised in California, I have been a life-long San Francisco Giants fan, even though they only arrived in 1958. It gives me great pleasure to stand today and commend this resolution to my colleagues. My connection with Barry Bonds is not only that I come from Northern California and bleed San Francisco Giants colors; but his agent is a family friend of mine, Mr. Scott Boras. How many of you can recall the names McCovey, Mays, Marichal, Haller, Tito Fuentes, Jimmy Davenport, Jim Ray Hart? It is a long list of names that are steeped in Giants history that lead us to today's proceedings. Barry Bonds, in fact, may have started with the Pittsburgh Pirates; but in fact he is a San Francisco Giants. His father, Bobby Bonds, came up into the majors serving with the San Francisco Giants; and in his first at-bat hit a grand slam home run, something that has not been often repeated in the major leagues.”