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Barry Bonds and Willie Mays and Their Intimate Instagram Moment

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Barry Bonds-Willie MaysKeeping you up to date on all the crucial issues of the day: Barry Bonds posted a selfie Monday on Instagram that appears to show the grinning home-run king sharing a pillow with his godfather, Willie Mays. The Say Hey Kid is asleep and appears to be in his pajamas.

Haters gonna hate, so most Web commentary on the Bonds-Mays photo tends toward the "this is really sort of creepy" end of the spectrum.

But the haters are missing something huge -- the historic statistical awesomeness the image represents. Never before in the history of social media has such a potent baseball twosome shared the same frame so intimately. There, in one Instagram, are 44 seasons of diamond greatness, featuring:

6,218 hits
1,422 home runs
3,899 runs batted in
4,289 runs scored

And 40 winks, too -- 80 if Barry conked out after posting the shot. You could look it up.

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