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This is exactly why I said in the Baseball World Cup thread that the idea of Bonds representing the US made me sick. Rick Reilly (SI backpage columnist) once wrote a story on Barry refusing to sign autographs at a charity softball game for kids with AIDs. Not a big thing, except he wasn't refusing to sign for signature collectors, he refused to sign for one of the groups of kids with AIDs in the stands.
This guy goes beyond just the average chip on their shoulder that a lot of the professional athletes have and enters the realm of the totally reprehensible. Outside of being an actual fan of the Giants, there's not asingle reason why somebody would root for this piece of shit failure of a human being.
ooops..did I forget to mention that during the strike he petitioned a district court to supsend his child support payments even though he was two years into a contract that paid him well over $12 million a year and had been makiing in the neighborhood of $5 million ayear while he was with the Pirates. But Barry went to the courts to say that he was "struggling" financially.
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