Very Classy Move - Barry Bonds

[BigAltheShoeman]

I personally don't care for Barry Bonds, but this is a "class-move" by him.

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Bonds helps Stow's children

Former San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds will pay for severely beaten fan Bryan Stow's two kids to go to college.

 

[nhoj]

Yes very classy move for sure. But I would hope someone would step up and help the family out right now when they most likely need some extra cash to pay the current bills due to loss of imcome. Kids college is important but im sure the family is hurting more at the present time than they will be when the kids go to college. I hope they fry the guys that did this crap.

 

[WorldNumberOne]

good for barry and good for the kids...

 

[oldmanTED]

Barry Bonds Will Pay College Bills For Bryan Stow’s Children

Over the past 20 years, Barry Bonds has been met with large amounts of both praise and criticism for nearly every move he has made.
Well, here's a move that both sides should finally be able to agree on: Bonds has pledged to pay any future college bills for the two grade-school age children of Bryan Stow, the single father and San Francisco Giants fan who was beaten into a coma by two men after attending the opening night game at Dodger Stadium on March 31.
That little heartwarming nugget was revealed by Stow's attorney Thomas Girardi — and first reported by NBC Bay Area — as he announced a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday for allegedly providing inadequate security at the stadium that night.
Girardi said that donations already made by generous fans of the Giants, Dodgers and other teams will be passed onto other charities if their lawsuit is successful. But the hefty gift from Bonds? Well, that means so much to Stow's family that it's the one they definitely plan on keeping.
One of the coolest parts about this donation is that Bonds made it over a month ago when he visited Stow in a Southern California hospital on April 22. No mention was made to the media then and it looks like it would have still been a secret had Girardi not revealed it to the media. Even if you've always been a Bonds hater, there's no way you can say this wasn't done for all the right reasons.
Well played, sir.

 

[festeringZit]

He's still a scumbag in my book.

When he gives the home run record back to it's rightful
owner (Hank Aaron), I'll change my mind.

The steroid freaks should give the record back to Roger Maris too.

 

[EYErunLA]

He's still a scumbag in my book.

When he gives the home run record back to it's rightful
owner (Hank Aaron), I'll change my mind.

The steroid freaks should give the record back to Roger Maris too.

This is more important than the home run record. He did a really good thing.

 

[JohnnyMac]

Good for him. But, I would think this was not from his heart, but from the brain of some PR rep to try and re-hab his image.

 

[TonyMar]

for sure,...A class move by barroid...

Does not change the fact that his attitude resembles a pile of horseshit on a 100+ degree day...&

that he was a scumbag cheater

 

[GoSooners]

Good for him. But, I would think this was not from his heart, but from the brain of some PR rep to try and re-hab his image.

I have a tendecy to agree, although it was still a very generous thing. I know of one poplular sports figure who gives a great deal of his time and money to charities. But he does it in secret and it never hits the media. These are the kinds of people I really admire. The ones who are true to themselves. And have a genuine desire to help others who are less fortunate.

 

[kermit16]

Good for him. But, I would think this was not from his heart, but from the brain of some PR rep to try and re-hab his image.

Whether you love him or hate him, your statement lacks credibility. Barry Bonds has always been very generous in regard to charity for youngsters. Look it up if you don't believe it.

 

[Bjizzle06]

He's still a scumbag in my book.

When he gives the home run record back to it's rightful
owner (Hank Aaron), I'll change my mind.

The steroid freaks should give the record back to Roger Maris too.

Self-righteous pharisee.

 

[TonyMar]

He's still a scumbag in my book.

When he gives the home run record back to it's rightful
owner (Hank Aaron), I'll change my mind.

The steroid freaks should give the record back to Roger Maris too.

when Hammerin' Hank refused to attend the game,...

that said it all...

He made that video because MLB all but forced him...

there was no chance in hell he was going to shake barroid's hand

 

[doubledeuce22]

still hasn't failed a mlb drug test

 

[billhill999]

^
But admitted to using a substance, but didn't know what it was.

I like the one about the Easter Bunny better.

 

[festeringZit]

Self-righteous pharisee.

huh?

 

[TomGshotput]

He's still a scumbag in my book.

When he gives the home run record back to it's rightful
owner (Hank Aaron), I'll change my mind.

The steroid freaks should give the record back to Roger Maris too.

How long have people been saying this stuff now? Are we up to 10 years yet? Why wasn't it brought up even earlier, like 1988 or 1996 when Canseco and Caminiti were winning MVPs?

 

[festeringZit]

How long have people been saying this stuff now? Are we up to 10 years yet? Why wasn't it brought up even earlier, like 1988 or 1996 when Canseco and Caminiti were winning MVPs?

If you're trying to turn it into a racial issue, it's clearly not.

 

[TomGshotput]

I'm trying to understand why people care about drugs only years and decades after it happens, but not while it's going on. Skin color is completely trivial

 

[wabashwonders]

How long have people been saying this stuff now? Are we up to 10 years yet? Why wasn't it brought up even earlier, like 1988 or 1996 when Canseco and Caminiti were winning MVPs?

It wasnt brought up earlier because no one was challenging Aaron's home run record at that time. Bud Selig is a very close friend of Aaron's and he only decided to finally do something about the steroid issue when his record was finally being challenged by Bonds. Selig ordered the Mitchell Report early in 2006, long afer steroid use was already well knowned. But in 2006 Bonds was beginning to close in on Aaron's record, which he eventually broke in 2007. I honestly believe if Bonds had never challenged this record the Mitchell report would have never happened and Selig would have continued turning his head about steroids. He knew MacGuire and Sosa were both doing steroids in 98 when they were having their home run derby and filling stadiums everywhere, but he did nothing.

 

[TonyMar]

bonds was a scumbag cheater on the field,...

&..

a H.O.F. asswipe off it