Skip Bayless: The Starting Five posted part I of their interview with Mr. Bayless last week, and part II went up yesterday. "In April of 2001, Rick Reilly...then the columnist at Sports Illustrated...wrote his back of the magazine column on what bad of a guy Barry Bonds was and it featured numerous quotes from Jeff Kent. Jeff Kent...and I can speak to this because I was there...was the real Barry Bonds! He was the real bad guy in the clubhouse. He was the one who was moody, volatile, quick tempered and difficult for his teammates ... Jeff Kent was a superstar in the media because he was very quotable and knew how to play the game. The writers would gather around Jeff Kent's locker after every game because Jeff Kent gave you insight, he gave you humor, he gave you quotes for which you could build your game stories. Jeff Kent took Rick Reilly under his wing and filled his notebook. He gave him scathing quotes about Barry Bonds. You can just look these up, but that was the turning point because Rick's columns were powerful in that they set the national tone." (Starting Five) (1)
Courtroom 10 in the federal courthouse should be free of crude discussion of Barry Bonds‘ allegedly shriveled testicles, supposed premature baldness and rumored massive head – at least that was the spirited argument Wednesday in a defense filing in the perjury case.
Before we, literally, arrive at the crown jewel of this legal petition.How does one have a “rumored massive head?â€It’s either massive or it isn’t.Either way, it’s unavoidable.
For a few days, it appeared as if Atlanta would finally sign a meaningful baseball free agent. Ken Griffey Jr. was coming to town! And then like Furcal and Peavy before him, Griffey jilted the Braves and opted for Seattle. Scapegoat? The newspaper that reported Griffey-to-Atlanta in the first place!
Sources have indicated that Griffey’s tide turned shortly after he became upset with the fact that The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was reporting that he’d already decided to play for the Braves. Read the rest of this entry »
The Federal Government has Barry Bonds. They have his garbage and his stale urine. They have his intimate pillow talk. They have turncoat ex-teammates. Five years of meticulous investigation and they have the bastard in the crosshairs. We finally will have the earth-rattling closure for which we’ve been waiting. Barry Bonds knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.
We know Barry Bonds used steroids. He looks like a water buffalo meandering among mere humans.Read the rest of this entry »
BALCO Blockbuster?: "Taking the Clear - the star drug of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative - was not a crime, according to expert testimony included in grand jury documents." WHAT? This story is six days old, yet we've seen nothing about it anywhere. Why not? Where's Pedro Gomez when you need him? (Yahoo Sports) (16)
“At the presentation of Ken Griffey, Jr. as a public diplomacy official for the U.S. State Department. Secretary Rice introduced Griffey, Jr by saying “He is fifth on the all-time home run list, along side such greats as Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays…” So even the US Government has added an asterisk.”
A simple error on the part of Rice, or a purposeful omission? The transcript should be posted shortly, and we imagine the AP will follow soonafter. This story figures to get some play today and into tomorrow.
One-time TBL interview subject Buzz Bissinger puts balderdash and poppycock to good use in his defense (!) of Barry Bonds, and compares the Federal Government’s recent actions against Bonds to be “worthy of the mafia:”
But last week’s news trickling out of the endless investigation of Barry Bonds has caused me to feel something for him I never thought possible: sympathy. Read the rest of this entry »
Evander Holyfield may have to go to jail because he owes one of his baby mamas child support. (TMZ)
Staggeringly useless trivia: Brian Austin Green may be the only celebrity who has had three incredibly hot actresses etch his initials or some variation of his name onto their body via tattoo: Vanessa Marcil, Tiffani Amber Thiessen, and Megan Fox. Yes, this makes David Silver the most unlikely lothario, yes, even more unlikely than Adam Duritz. Read the rest of this entry »
Barry Bonds’ legal team moved to preempt discussion of his putative physical deformities.
From a Capitol Hill tipster:
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Megan Fox, because we love her, and because she’s part of some absolutely useless trivia at the bottom of this post … 