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Bill Conlin | Giants sign Bonds in the still of the night
recovering from injury or given a day of rest?
As he inches toward the great record many feel he now threatens so late in his career using a Body by BALCO, Bonds has
become a baseball version of the O.J. trial.
He is too sleazy, too self-absorbed and too one-dimensional not to watch. Bonds makes Mike Tyson seem cuddly.
Even as a huge Money Pit mob mocked his futility here last season, there was that one magical contact, that one "Oh, bleep" swing and the home run to remember forever it produced. You can still see the speck of a baseball caroming off the
McDonald's sign on the lofty third deck in right-center. Only Ryan Howard has hit one in the same league of awesome.
So for the bargain price of $15.8 million, Peter Magowan has probably bought himself 1 more year of debt service thanks to the Supergoose who has laid so many giant, golden eggs.
But life without Barry Bonds is only a scrambled knee or grand jury indictment away. *
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