Thursday, July 26, 2012

The New Look Barry Bonds

Barry Bonds has been a frequent visitor to San Francisco's AT&T Park over the past few years, so it's not exactly that startling to see him out in public. But baseball's all-time home run leader has caused a bit of a stir on the Internet after being recently spotted in an unexpected destination more than a few long blasts from McCovey Cove.




Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Deford: Don't Insult Baseball

"To vote for Bonds and Clemens for the Hall of Fame is, above all, an insult to all the good guys who played fair." --- Frank Deford, Sports Illustrated




Friday, July 20, 2012

Prosecutors continue to prosecute Barry Bonds



Before a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court this week, United States prosecutors urged the judges to uphold Barry Bonds’ obstruction of justice conviction.

U.S. prosecutors also said that U.S. District Judge Susan Illston properly instructed the jury, despite Bonds’ lawyers arguments.

Additionally:
“Contrary to Bonds’s attempts to interpret it as such, Count Five did not charge him with the act of obstructing justice through particular statements he made to the grand jury, but through intentionally evasive, false, and misleading testimony,” prosecutor Merry Jean Chan wrote.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds and other sluggers

Some great sluggers, in their best seasons, have had slugging averages of .700 or more, usually once or twice in a lifetime. Only two players — Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds — ever had a slugging average over .800 in a season. That’s equivalent to two singles, a double and a home run every 10 times at bat, all season long.




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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Barry Bonds needs a job









The MLB players’ union is considering a collusion grievance on Barry Bonds’ behalf.

MLB union chief Michael Weiner says: 

"There’s a potential grievance. I’d love to see Barry work in baseball in any capacity he’d like. Barry Bonds is not just a multitalented player but a multitalented individual. It would be wonderful to see him in whatever capacity he’d like to work in."



Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Flashback: Barry Bonds in Pittsburgh 1992

Barry Bonds, the Pirates and 1992

He had a career year, the year of 1992 with the Pirates: 34 home runs, .311 batting average with a slugging percentage of .677.

It was his last year with the Pirates (signing a then-record contract with the Giants) and the following year with San Francisco, he would post even greater numbers.


Why are people talking about Barry Bonds, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the 1992 MLB baseball season this week?

Because people cannot stop talking about Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates (at this year's MLB All-Star Game) and what he has done this year with his monster season in Pittsburgh. Andrew is making Pirates fans forget about the past 20 years and forget about Barry Bonds.

Andrew McCutchen is the multiskilled, 25-year-old center fielder for the Pirates who was just named National League Player of the Month for June. He is in his fourth season with Pittsburgh. MVP talk is growing. Why shouldn't it? Andrew is currently hitting .362 with 18 home runs so far in the 2012 campaign.


As delirious as Pirates fans are over their team being in first place, they are just as or more so over Andrew McCutchen. Why should they? Everybody likes Andrew McCutchen and he is great in the Pittsburgh community. 


Good luck to Andrew McCutchen the rest of the 2012 baseball season.





Monday, July 9, 2012

2002 MLB All-Star Game When Torii Hunter Robbed Barry Bonds

MLB All-Star Game: Remembering the Night Torii Hunter Robbed Barry Bonds
Bleacher Report
It all happened in the first inning of the game when Barry Bonds came up to the plate to face the American League starting pitcher Derek Lowe with two outs in the first inning. When Bonds sent the Lowe pitch  Hunter would spend parts of eight 

Friday, July 6, 2012

Mr. October says Barry Bonds is not the home run king

Reggie Jackson on Barry Bonds:


 "I believe that Hank Aaron is the home run king, not Barry Bonds, as great a player as Bonds was ... If any of those guys get in, no Hall of Famer will attend." 


Sports Illustrated’s "13th annual Where Are They Now?" issue, July 9, 2012




Monday, July 2, 2012

2002 NL champion San Francisco Giants celebrate 10-year reunion


Team members of the 2002 National League champion San Francisco Giants gathered at AT&T Park on Sunday, receiving ovations from the crowd before the Giants faced the Cincinnati Reds in the finale of a four-game series.

Quotes from Barry Bonds about the reunion:
"That team had a great impact, especially on Dusty's son. Little Darren out there, he was like our good-luck charm. It's good to see him back here, too."  
"Not winning? It doesn't stick with me anymore. Right now, it's just good to see everyone and have a good time. Win or lost, it's nice just to come home and reminisce with each other." 
"Game 6 happened and I don’t even remember Game 7. I remember standing in the shower thinking, ‘What happened?’"
The Reds lost 4-3 to the Giants in the bottom of the ninth on Angel Pagan's fly ball that was badly misplayed into a double by outfielder Jay Bruce.

A selection of Barry Bonds' comments regarding PED use:

  • "Doctors ought to quit worrying about what ballplayers are taking. What players take doesn't matter. It's nobody else's business. The doctors should spend their time looking for cures for cancer. It takes more than muscles to hit homers. If all those guys were using stuff, how come they're not all hitting homers?" -- May 21, 2002, Associated Press
  • "No. I don't have to [use steroids]. I mean, I'm a good enough ballplayer as it is. I don't need to be any better. I can't get any better at this age." -- June 2002, On the Record with Bob Costas
  • "I never asked. When he said it was flaxseed oil, I just said, 'Whatever.' It was in the ballpark.. in front of everybody. I mean, all the reporters, my teammates, I mean they all saw it. I didn't hide it." -- Dec. 4, 2003, during grand jury testimony, according to the San Francisco Chronicle
  • "I don't know Tim Montgomery. I've never met him. When accusations come from someone you don't even know, what can you do?" They'll be talking to my lawyer." -- June 25, 2004 to USA TODAY in response to allegations from a former world-class sprinter that he received steroids from BALCO
  • "All you guys lied! All of y'all and the story have lied. Should you have asterisks behind your name? All of you lied. All of you have said something wrong. All of you have dirt. When your closet's clean, then come clean somebody else's." -- Feb. 22, 2005, first public comments after testimony was leaked
  • "I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination [and] technically hit a baseball." -- Feb. 22, 2005, first public comments after testimony was leaked
  • "You wanted me to jump off the bridge; I finally have jumped. You wanted to bring me down, you've finally brought me and my family down. You've finally done it. So now go kick a different person. I'm done. I'll do the best I can and that's about it. [I'm talking about] inner hurt. I'm physically, mentally done. I'm mentally drained. Tired of my kids crying." -- March 23, 2005 on MLB
  • "I went through the system. And that's what it is. And that's what I got. I went through the system. I'm in an appeal process right now. I was never convicted of steroids. Do I have any regrets? What happened happened. It's there. It is what it is. I live with it. I'm a convicted felon for obstruction of justice, and that's who I am. I live with it." -- May 29, 2012
  • "I gave my life and soul to that game. That's what's heartbreaking. That's the hard part of it." -- May 30, 2012 on MLB
  • "Not winning? [the 2002 World Series] It doesn't stick with me anymore. Right now, it's just good to see everyone and have a good time. Win or lost, it's nice just to come home and reminisce with each other." -- July 1, 2012
  • "Oh, without a doubt. There's not a doubt in my mind." -- August 6, 2012