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Monday, August 13, 2007

Times Online: Steigerwald: Bonds isn’t a good guy

Bonds should have his hoes taken away!

Not long after they died, Peter Diana, a photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, got together with a group of people who knew Lang and Scott and decided to raise money for their families.

They figured it would be easy to get Pirates players and visiting players to autograph memorabilia and raise money by auctioning the items. All the players who were asked to cooperate did so without hesitation.

Except one.

When Diana approached Bonds, who had known both Lang and Scott, and told him about the auction and asked him to sign a few items, he said, “I don’t sign for nobody.”

That’s why Diana is quoted on the inside cover of the book, “Love Me Hate Me: Barry Bonds And The Making Of An Anti-Hero.” Diana’s quote: “Personally, I hope he (Bonds) dies.”

Thanks to deft infield sprinkling of Can’t Stop the Bleeding.

Repoz Posted: August 13, 2007 at 09:16 PM | 14 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: August 13, 2007 at 09:27 PM (#2483693)
Some day Diana will get his wish.
   2. JMM Posted: August 13, 2007 at 09:33 PM (#2483702)
No better what to prove how good a guy you are than wishing someone else dead, even if the guy who wish dead is a prick....
   3. The Bones McCoy of THT Posted: August 13, 2007 at 09:42 PM (#2483712)
Here's an idea: Why not demonstrate to Bonds how classy people act?

Assuming this story is true, I'm reminded of a saying: Never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level then beat you with experience. Along the same lines--Don't be nasty to a jerk, they'll drag you to their level and make you worse after being around him.

If you really want to 'get back' at Bonds, demonstrate that having association with a disagreeable butthole hasn't rubbed off on you.

It lets him know that he has no impact/effect on the lives of others. It makes him irrelevant. When he can no longer hit a baseball he'll be a wealthy man who has to live with himself since nobody else will.

How many people think about Albert Belle when he hasn't broken the law?

Exactly.

Just remember the old Irish proverb: 'If you want to know what <strike>God</strike> natural selection thinks about money, just look at the people <strike>he</strike> it lets have it.'*

*Updated for the aughts

Best Regards

John
   4. strong silence Posted: August 13, 2007 at 10:15 PM (#2483734)
Or consider the older saying of the Buddha: "If a person does not follow the Eightfold Path, one lives one's life like a preoccupied child playing with toys in a house that is burning to the ground"
   5. The Bones McCoy of THT Posted: August 13, 2007 at 10:18 PM (#2483737)
I think I like Buddha's take better.

But his head is so big.

Best Regards

John
   6. PaulO Posted: August 13, 2007 at 11:02 PM (#2483771)
No better what to prove how good a guy you are than wishing someone else dead, even if the guy who wish dead is a prick....

I don't think that Diana was trying to prove how good a person she is when she made that quote.
   7. David Nieporent (now, with children) Posted: August 14, 2007 at 12:05 AM (#2483815)
I don't think that Diana was trying to prove how good a person she is when she made that quote.
I don't think Diana is a she.
   8. Best Regards, Larry M. Posted: August 14, 2007 at 12:39 AM (#2483847)
Times Online: Steigerwald: Bonds isn’t a good guy


Part of a series:

Fire isn't cold
Smoking isn't good for you
Nickelback isn't a good band
   9. Pirate Joe Posted: August 14, 2007 at 01:10 AM (#2483877)
Here's an idea: Why not demonstrate to Bonds how classy people act?

Assuming this story is true, I'm reminded of a saying: Never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level then beat you with experience. Along the same lines--Don't be nasty to a jerk, they'll drag you to their level and make you worse after being around him.



An idiot wouldn't have to drag Steigerwald down to get to his level, and a jerk wouldn't have to do any "dragging" either.

Steigerwald has had it in for Bonds long, long before this incident happened.

In fact Steigerwald pretty much has it in for everyone. I've commented to people before that I can't understand why someone who hates sports and the people who play them so much apparently still wants to be a sportscaster. I guess it beats getting a real job.
   10. YR Denies Jesus Montero Posted: August 14, 2007 at 02:13 AM (#2483950)
“I don’t sign for nobody.”


Nobody white, that is. I believe Ron Kittle covered this point previously.
   11. McCoy Posted: August 14, 2007 at 02:20 AM (#2483965)
He signed for David Wells.
   12. YR Denies Jesus Montero Posted: August 14, 2007 at 02:38 AM (#2483988)
Wells is part Irish.
   13. The cushions are crowded for Edmundo Posted: August 14, 2007 at 12:44 PM (#2484147)
If a person does not follow the Eightfold Path...
Now I understand what Yogi Berra was talking about when he said "When you come to the fork in the road, take it". It was a Zen thing. He was probably Yoga Berra in a former life and the title got anglicized.
   14. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: August 14, 2007 at 01:26 PM (#2484171)
“I don’t sign for nobody.”

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

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