San Francisco Giants Wiretap

Bonds Had Titatanium Brace Implanted In Base Of Skull?

According to Marlon Leftwich, Greg Anderson disclosed that, as a remedy, doctors implanted a small titanium brace at the base of Barry Bonds' skull to keep his abnormally large head upright in 2001.

Leftwich attributes to Anderson a story about Bonds, angry over steroids causing his testicles to shrivel, taking matters into his own hands. Prior to a rendezvous with his then-mistress, Kimberly Bell, after Game Five of the Series, he shot a full dose of human growth hormone into his scrotum. Within the hour, as Bonds' penis swelled to the width of a Coke can, Bell had to drive a moaning, half-conscious Bonds to an emergency room. Doctors gingerly drained the fluid and applied dry ice to his groin, narrowly averting a catastrophic eruption of his organ.

As Leftwich remembers it, Anderson said, "I tried to warn Barry not to shoot HGH into his junk, same way I warned him not to shoot 'the Clear' into his pecs."

Via SF Weekly


Wednesday Marks Bonds Final Game With The Giants

Wednesday night will be the Giants' final home game of 2007 and the final home game for Barry Bonds in the uniform he has worn since 1993.

"He's all set to start," Bruce Bochy said. "Ready to go."

Bochy said he'll probably field a lineup full of the team's youngest players for the final three games this weekend in Los Angeles, so Wednesday's game will likely be Bonds final one with the Giants altogether.

RealGM Note: As of Wednesday morning, many tickets remain available.

Via San Jose Mercury News


756 Will Be Branded With Asterisk

The ball Barry Bonds hit for his record-breaking 756th home run will be branded with an asterisk and sent to the Baseball Hall of Fame, its owner said Wednesday.

Fashion designer Marc Ecko, who bought the ball in an online auction, set up a Web site for fans to vote on the ball's fate, and the decision to brand it won out over the other options, sending it to the museum unblemished or launching it into space. "We're going to be working with the folks at the Hall of Fame," Ecko said on NBC's "Today" show.

Via Washington Post


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