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Thread ID: 18537 | Posts: 11 | Started: 2005-06-05
2005-06-05 13:02 | User Profile
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"Ron Kittle is no fan of Barry Bonds ââ¬â not after his tense encounter with the slugger at Wrigley Field in 1993. Here's an excerpt from Kittle's book, describing how he approached Bonds with a couple of Bonds' game-worn San Francisco Giants road jerseys, asking him to autograph them for an auction for Kittle's charity for children with cancer:
"I paid about $110 of my own money for them, so they could be auctioned off at the golf outing. I did that all the time for stars like Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Derek Jeter and Roger Clemens. When I tell them how their autographs help the cause, every player gladly signs ââ¬â with one exception.
I walked up to Bonds at his locker in the Wrigley Field visitors' clubhouse, introduced myself and said, "Barry, if you sign these, they'll bring in a lot of money for kids who need help."
Bonds stood up, looked me in the eye and said, "I don't sign for white people." If lightning hits me today, I will swear those were his exact words. Matt Williams and other Giants were in the room and they heard what Bonds said.
I stood there for a minute, and the veins in my neck were popping. I've only been that mad a few times in my life. I was going to beat the (heck) out of him, really kick his (butt), but Williams saw what was happening, so he came over and got between us. Matt said, "Ron, that's just the way he is."
I said, "White guys aren't the only ones who get cancer," but Bonds had turned his back on me and walked out of the clubhouse. Somebody must have run in and alerted Dusty Baker, who was the manager of the Giants then.
So Dusty came out of his office, put his arm around me, gave me a big old hug and said, "Aw, Kitty, he's just got that (bad) attitude again." Dusty gave me an autographed team ball for the auction, but I never got the Bonds jerseys signed. Later, I gave one of them to Scott Paulson, the Wilson sporting goods representative, and shredded the other one. But that day, I drove from Wrigley Field at about 150 miles per hour and sat there, fuming.
I'll never forget what that man said. So if Barry Bonds is looking for a breath of fresh air to live and I'm the only one who has to give it to him, unfortunately, the man will die. I just don't like guys like that."
Asked about the incident, Kittle replied, "It's a true story. How could I make up something like that?"
Bonds' spokeswoman declined comment on Kittle's story. A Giants team spokesman also declined comment."
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2005-06-05 16:04 | User Profile
Never mind that white people are the ones paying his exorbitant salary by buying overpriced tickets to ball games. If it weren't for those darn white people, Barry Bonds of San Francisco would Barry Bongo of the Congo.
Yet another reason whites should turn their backs on pro sports --- but I wouldn't make that Item 1 of the White Nationalist Agenda.
2005-06-07 00:01 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Hugh Lincoln]Never mind that white people are the ones paying his exorbitant salary by buying overpriced tickets to ball games. If it weren't for those darn white people, Barry Bonds of San Francisco would Barry Bongo of the Congo.
Yet another reason whites should turn their backs on pro sports --- but I wouldn't make that Item 1 of the White Nationalist Agenda.[/QUOTE]
The double standard in sports is appalling.
If Bonds won't sign an autograph for needy white kids, he may be a good baseball, but he is a loser a human being.
It astounds me how many white people admire black athletes.
2005-06-13 17:01 | User Profile
Mmmm, I didn't hear one squeak about this story. Nada. Although Mr Kittle apparently is a journalist/reporter with a newspaper, nothing's been said anywhere else I guess.
Don't have to go through the scenario if Mark McGuire said "I don't sign for black people". Mr Bush would make a special address to the nation to let us all know what happened.
2005-06-13 18:57 | User Profile
Very true: [QUOTE]It astounds me how many white people admire black athletes.[/QUOTE]
I have grew to hate most sports as a child. I can not stand these savages.
The Liberal still hate and attack Ty Cobb, whose recod has never been broken, because he did not like Afros. And he has been dead for 40 years.
2005-06-13 18:58 | User Profile
I heard it mentioned on ESPN radio. They called it a "he said, he said" thing. Bonds had a white wife and has mulatto children.
2005-06-14 01:37 | User Profile
I think it's great. Break white men from their TV-watching, do nothing habit. And encourage racial animosity! Barry Bonds is a victory for white men.
2005-06-14 04:23 | User Profile
[QUOTE=neoclassical]I think it's great. Break white men from their TV-watching, do nothing habit. And encourage racial animosity! Barry Bonds is a victory for white men.[/QUOTE] The story was written in Sports Illustrated. As to anyone equating a Barry Bonds autograph with something one would want to have . . . I don't get it.
My George Brett autographed game program sadly got lost in a move. Oh well.
2005-06-14 16:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angeleyes]The story was written in Sports Illustrated. As to anyone equating a Barry Bonds autograph with something one would want to have . . . I don't get it.
My George Brett autographed game program sadly got lost in a move. Oh well.[/QUOTE]
I think this is just more evidence which contradicts the fallacy that sports builds character. From Koby Bryant to Mike Tyson, we have seen time and again athletes who are rapists, criminals, greedy, self-centered, and drug addicts. Rather than build character, sports seems to attack good character and encourages the most basic emotions. We have also seen this in the violent behavior of fans, who for some idiotic reason, consider themselves a part of the game.
2005-06-14 16:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ron]I think this is just more evidence which contradicts the fallacy that sports builds character. From Koby Bryant to Mike Tyson, we have seen time and again athletes who are rapists, criminals, greedy, self-centered, and drug addicts. Rather than build character, sports seems to attack good character and encourages the most basic emotions. We have also seen this in fans, who for some idiotic reason consider themselves a part of the game.[/QUOTE] I would assert that amateur sports do build character. Professional sports, including quasi-professional ones such as college football and basketball, create a sense of entitlement.
2005-06-15 00:29 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ron]I think this is just more evidence which contradicts the fallacy that sports builds character. From Koby Bryant to Mike Tyson, we have seen time and again athletes who are rapists, criminals, greedy, self-centered, and drug addicts. Rather than build character, sports seems to attack good character and encourages the most basic emotions. We have also seen this in the violent behavior of fans, who for some idiotic reason, consider themselves a part of the game.[/QUOTE] Sports build character.
Celebrity is a severe challenge to character. If Mom and Dad did not raise you right, Celebrity will doubtless expose sopmeone for the insecure, neurotic that he or she really is. Miss Spears comes to mind, and her father the pimp. Those "bright lights" are pitiless.