Barry Bonds: The Gift That Wants To Keep Giving

"I have a gift and sooner or later I have to give it away," Bonds said. "I have to share it. Hopefully I'll get the opportunity here."


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Giants fans never liked Barry Bonds is a lie, lie, lie

The Giants' spectacular success is a thrill. But to contrast this with the '02 team -- in a way that allows us to declare how we never really liked Barry Bonds anyway -- is a lie.


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The Barry Bonds trial witness list

Home Run King, now Ceremonial Pitcher

Before a packed AT&T Park on Tuesday, San Francisco Giants legend Barry Bonds threw out the ceremonial first pitch in the Giants' first NLCS home game versus the Phillies.

Bonds jumped out of the dugout, blew many kisses to his adoring fans, tipped his Giants hat and waved to all in the ballpark that saw his many home run records established.

Earlier this week, Bonds was reported saying that he wanted his Giants to "beat the Phillies asses!" And he was more than rewarded for his enthusiasm with a loud and sustained ovation with the fans chanting "Barry! Barry! Barry!" over and over again just like they did many times several years ago.

In the game and on the mound, Giants pitcher Matt Cain put together an impressive 2-hit performance and the Giants won the third game of the NLCS 3-0. Giants now lead the best of seven series 2-1.

In 2002, Barry Bonds lead his Giants into the World Series against the Anaheim Angels and lost 4-3; his only World Series appearance.

Barry Bonds is scheduled to go to trial in March 2011 on charges that he lied to the U.S. government in its investigation of steroids in major league baseball.

Ryan Howard: A Barry Bonds BFF

Ryan Howard: "He was great at getting the point across. I understood everything he was saying."


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Jason Giambi, welcome to The Barry Bonds Trial

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Federal prosecutors on Friday submitted the lineup of witnesses they intend to call during the much-delayed Barry Bonds perjury trial and it includes Rockies first baseman Jason Giambi and the home run king’s former personal trainer at the center of the case.


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"The Tenth Inning" starring Barry Bonds

Without doubt, Barry Bonds was central to the baseball era that filmmaker Ken Burns has visited and filmed in the making of "The Tenth Inning," a four-hour epic that will premiere on PBS on Sept. 28 and 29.

The film begins with Bonds' upbringing and ends with the slugger smashing Hank Aaron's all-time home run record amid widespread suspicion of steroid use. Says Ken Burns:

"He is a symbol, for better or worse, for the last two decades of baseball, which are among the most consequential in the history of the game."

Bud Selig ... not a witness

Bud Selig Defends MLB Steroid Testing; Stays Out of Bonds, Clemens Trials

  

Bud Selig, Major League Baseball commissioner, says that he does NOT expect to be called as a witness in the Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens trials.

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens: a lot in common

Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have at least two things in common: they each won one of baseball's two top individual awards seven times and now they've both been indicted for allegedly lying under oath that they knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs.

The hardware in their trophy cases suggests that Bonds and Clemens were the best hitter and best pitcher of their time.


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Clemens' best option: Misremember his ego

Plead guilty. Now. Or risk the worst punishment imaginable -- a permanent place alongside Barry Bonds as the two-faced monster of baseball's Steroid Era.


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U.S.setback begs question: will Barry Bonds' perjury trial be dropped?

Barry Bonds took another round from the U.S. prosecutors who put his trial on hold in March 2009.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding the ruling of the lower court, determined that Bonds will not be faced at his federal trial for perjury and obstruction of justice with, among other things,positive results from certain urine samples.



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ESPN: Does this decision mean the end of the perjury case against Bonds?

No. It is a serious setback for the federal prosecutors, but it is not the end of their efforts to convict Bonds of lying to the grand jury about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.


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