[TS] Sports of The Times: Bonds Is the Fall Guy of Spring
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Quite contrary to the notion that baseball would be much better off if Barry Bonds disappeared, the game not only deserves the Bonds denouement, it needs it for the sake of a raised consciousness.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Letâs defer to the slugger-philosopher, Barry Bonds, for Saturdayâs life-lesson. âItâ he said in reference to the San Francisco Giantsâ latest biggest win of the season, âis as big as it is today.
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(Sports Network) - Barry Bonds can equal two huge baseball milestones tonight. However, aside from personal achievements, the San Francisco slugger is more focused on his team&#39;s drive to the playoffs, and
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The news was relegated to the back of the papers and mentioned only in a note, but the significance was impossible to ignore. On the same day San Francisco&#39;s Barry Bonds hit his milestone
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Barry Bonds once seemed on an inevitable march toward becoming baseball&#039;s home run king. The San Francisco slugger homered at a dizzying rate, sending pitches both good and bad over outfield fences. Now he&#039;s lucky to hit one out once a week.
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Maybe he read the wrong scouting report, and mixed up his Japanese pitchers. Maybe Barry Bonds was looking for the gyroball instead of the fastball that the Giants' slugger took from Hideki Okajima for a third strike in the eighth inning yesterday afternoon, with a game there to be won for the visitors.
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Home run record holder Barry Bonds will leave the San Francisco Giants at the end of this season, the player said on his personal website (http://barrybonds.mlb.com) on Friday.
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A month ago, it looked as if Barry Bonds might break the home run record by the All-Star game or perhaps even as early as June. He'd already hit 10 homers and May had barely begun.
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Barry Bonds had a pointed message for the grand jury: Go ahead, investigate me. After arriving at spring training Tuesday, more fit than in recent years following a productive winter of conditioning, the slugger insisted he's unfazed by all his off-the-field issues and is ready to resume his pursuit of the home run record.
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Everyone was buzzing about Barry Bonds. National League manager Tony La Russa had just posted his lineup for Tuesday night's All-Star game and Bonds, baseball's prodigy and pariah, was batting second, rather than his customary cleanup spot.
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Even if Barry Bonds shows up on time to spring training Monday, he likely won't practice with the team until he signs his contract. The San Francisco slugger is not on the Giants' 40-man roster, which currently stands at 39 after catcher Mike Matheny went on the voluntary retirement list with a concussion.
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On a balmy September summer evening at Miller Park, Barry Bonds, arguably the best player there ever was, had a chance to go where only two men in baseball history had gone before.
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THERE WILL be an asterisk next to Barry Bonds&#39; home-run records. It may not appear in Major League Baseball&#39;s official archives, but it will be ingrained in the public mind.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - Another record-setting season  has led San Francisco leftfielder Barry Bonds to his fourth  straight and unprecedented seventh overall National League Most  Valuable Player Award.
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NEW YORK  - When San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron's career home-run record, ESPN and Fox Sports aim to bring the occasion to viewers live nationwide.
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According to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll, a third of Americans want Barry Bonds to break the career record for home runs and almost as many want him to fail.
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The home run king is looking for a job. Barry Bonds filed for free agency Monday on the first possible day after the World Series ended with Boston's sweep of the Colorado Rockies on Sunday night.