[This is something I wrote for and it originally appeared on the site If I Ran, which is definitely worthy of a bookmark, or a good read at the very least...Rather than read the post here, you might as well mosy on over and check out the other contributions on the site.]
I grew up [...]

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Ah, spring is in the air, and pitchers and catchers report to spring training today, officially ending a horrible stretch run in sports when football ends and baseball has yet to begin.
It also means that Barry Bonds has that proverbial target back on his forehead, especially now since he finally signed with the Giants after [...]

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So Barry Bonds has failed a drug test, but not for steroids.
Last season, the sulky slugger failed an amphetamine test… yet another controlled substance… but MLB and many fans still have their heads buried in the sand on this one. And before I continue, yes, many other players use and have used steroids: but [...]

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Today seemed to be a day of atonement for some of the more disappointing sports stories of my year.
First off, Brian Sabean and the San Francisco Giants actually made a move that makes sense, signing Barry Zito for 7 years. Zito should do well at the top of the rotation followed by Matt Cain, [...]

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With Barry Bonds’s decision to return to the Giants for the 2007 MLB season seems to have lit a fire under the asses of the federal prosecutors charged with putting Barry behind bars and preventing him from breaking Hank Aaron’s home run record. Today the court ruled that the federal prosecutors can have access [...]

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But both have rather bad strategies.
First, let’s go back to my bread and butter: Brian Sabean. The Giants decided to re-sign Barry Bonds for the total sum of $16 million for one year. To give some perspective, that kind of money could have kept Jason Schmidt or possibly signed Juan Pierre AND Jose [...]

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I rip on Brian Sabean a lot. Actually, I was starting to think that I might be too hard on him. When it looked as if the Giants were going to invest in younger players and rely on their farm system and develop their players to get them back on the map, I [...]

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Professional baseball in Freemont, CA?
According to an ESPN News report, the Oakland A’s will announce tomorrow that they will purchase the land and pay for the construction of their own stadium in Freemont, only 18 miles from San Jose. But Giants fans should not start crying just yet about the A’s creeping into the [...]

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Apparantly Bruce Bochy is now going to be the next manager of the San Francisco Giants. Even better news is that Barry Bonds has announced that he is officially filing for free agency and that the G-Men have yet to make him an offer (I can’t understand how one $18-$20 million player is a [...]

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