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Barry Bonds (Juiced Merge)

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Bonds bemoans taunts' impact on daughter

LOS ANGELES ? The 8-year-old girl stood a few feet from the man mocking her father. She seemed somewhat oblivious, and considering the situation's flammability, that was probably a for the best.
Because were she just a few years older, how would Aisha Bonds, daughter of Barry Bonds, have reacted to the Caucasian man who painted his face brown, wore matching latex skin over his head and stuffed a muscle suit beneath his authentic No. 25 jersey?
"You look funny," she said, according to the man who played the imposter, 22-year-old Scott Keighley Jr., and his father, 47-year-old Scott Keighley.
Good thing Bonds himself missed the pathetic minstrel show. Rage ? roid or otherwise ? surely would have been warranted.
"It's no big deal," Keighley Jr. said Wednesday about the scene that had played out a night earlier. "We're just trying to have some fun."
En route, he and his father overstepped the line between fun and moronic. The elder Keighley sported a white lab coat, playing BALCO founder Victor Conte to his son's Bonds. They wore costumes for the first two games of the San Francisco Giants' series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, sitting in the third row behind home plate, which gave them postgame access to the area about 15 feet from the Giants' clubhouse entrance.
Aisha Bonds had waited for her father there among the Dodgers fans streaming out Tuesday.
"I walked away just so she wouldn't be able to put two and two together, just so she might think (Scott Jr.) is a fan," Keighley said. "I don't think kids can know that.
"I would never hurt a kid or say anything to a child in any way. We didn't want to hurt her feelings."
He didn't, it appeared. Innocence spared her.

Entire article: Bonds bemoans taunts' impact on daughter - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
 
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Bonds doesn't want No. 756 ball

Posted: Thursday August 02, 2007 06:44AM ET

Before resuming his quest to dethrone Hank Aaron as baseball's home run king last night, Barry Bonds deigned to speak with reporters who are covering his trudge toward history. In a barely audible voice, Bonds sat in front of his locker as a few dozen reporters strained to hear the answers to what he called a bunch of old questions. Eventually, Bonds was asked if he'd like to have the ball when he hits No. 756. You know, a little keepsake from the happy summer of 2007. "No," Bonds said, pausing. "It's not mine." The fan who catches that ball could be rich and Bonds knows it. The record-breaker, by some estimates, could be worth more than $500,000."I had a little kid come up to me and tell me he'd give the ball back to me," Bonds said with a laugh. "I said, 'Are you stupid? You'd have more money than your parents.'"

Entire article: FanNation | Truth&Rumors
 
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Bonds still stuck at 754 homers

Friday, August 3, 2007 3:32 AM

Associated Press

Barry Bonds was intentionally walked in the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers last night, leaving him at 754 home runs.

There was a runner on second base and one out with the Giants leading 3-1 when Bonds was walked by Scott Proctor. He was replaced by pinch-runner Fred Lewis.
Bonds walked on a full count in the first inning, singled to right in the second and fouled out to the catcher in the fifth.

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Ah! Yes! "The Baseball Embarrassment" that won't go away.
What to do?
He's getting older...and getting stronger?
How is that humanely possible?
And; Can he be stopped?

Where have our sports heros gone?
 
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After all the talk of "the media is harping this steroid stuff too much - the fans don't care," I'm not about to selectively apply that to one guy. Baseball made this choice. This is the culture they chose to accept.

Congrats Mr. Bonds.
 
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methomps;896045; said:
After all the talk of "the media is harping this steroid stuff too much - the fans don't care," I'm not about to selectively apply that to one guy. Baseball made this choice. This is the culture they chose to accept.

Congrats Mr. Bonds.
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That's fine, but if you blame baseball, you have to blame Bonds too. It's an individual choice more than an MLB choice. Bonds will probably have to pay for his steroid use with his future health. I was a Bonds fan until it became apparent that he was on roids. You can't tell me that he didn't realize that his head was growing (physically) and that his body bulked up that much in one year (2000 - 2001) all from non-steroid means.

It's rediculous that you congratulate someone for doing permanent damage to his body and spoiling nationally hallowed records because baseball acquiesed. It's not the tradition's fault that they didn't crack down sooner.
 
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