hopefully he can fend off ricky's heat
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Charlie McCollum / San Jose Mercury News today wrote:
HBO acquires rights to Barry Bonds-BALCO story
The story of Barry Bonds and the BALCO steroids scandal is going to be made into a film by HBO.
The premium cable channel has acquired the rights to "Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports," the book by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams who covered the story for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The book focused on the former San Francisco Giants slugger's relationship with BALCO, the Burlingame-based nutrition company that is accused of distributing illegal steroids to Bonds, the New York Yankees' Jason Giambi, and Olympic gold medal sprinter Marion Jones.
The film will be written and directed by Ron Shelton, whose lengthy resume includes such notable sports films as "Bull Durham," "Tin Cup" and "White Men Can't Jump." It will be produced by Ross Greenburg, the head of HBO Sports who also produced "61*" about Roger Maris' chase of Babe Ruth's homerun record, and Michael Greenburg ("Stargate SG-1").
Just when the film might make it to television is unclear. Shelton can't even begin writing the script until after the current strike by television and film writers is settled.
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Wonder who'll get the lead role...
_________________ "You wait for a strike, then you knock the sh*t out of it."
- Stan Musial, with his easy to understand definition of OPS
Charlie McCollum / San Jose Mercury News today wrote:
HBO acquires rights to Barry Bonds-BALCO story
The story of Barry Bonds and the BALCO steroids scandal is going to be made into a film by HBO.
The premium cable channel has acquired the rights to "Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports," the book by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams who covered the story for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The book focused on the former San Francisco Giants slugger's relationship with BALCO, the Burlingame-based nutrition company that is accused of distributing illegal steroids to Bonds, the New York Yankees' Jason Giambi, and Olympic gold medal sprinter Marion Jones.
The film will be written and directed by Ron Shelton, whose lengthy resume includes such notable sports films as "Bull Durham," "Tin Cup" and "White Men Can't Jump." It will be produced by Ross Greenburg, the head of HBO Sports who also produced "61*" about Roger Maris' chase of Babe Ruth's homerun record, and Michael Greenburg ("Stargate SG-1").
Just when the film might make it to television is unclear. Shelton can't even begin writing the script until after the current strike by television and film writers is settled.
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Wonder who'll get the lead role...
I was thinkin Bob Saget could play Bud Selig
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Charlie McCollum / San Jose Mercury News today wrote:
HBO acquires rights to Barry Bonds-BALCO story
The story of Barry Bonds and the BALCO steroids scandal is going to be made into a film by HBO.
The premium cable channel has acquired the rights to "Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports," the book by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams who covered the story for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The book focused on the former San Francisco Giants slugger's relationship with BALCO, the Burlingame-based nutrition company that is accused of distributing illegal steroids to Bonds, the New York Yankees' Jason Giambi, and Olympic gold medal sprinter Marion Jones.
The film will be written and directed by Ron Shelton, whose lengthy resume includes such notable sports films as "Bull Durham," "Tin Cup" and "White Men Can't Jump." It will be produced by Ross Greenburg, the head of HBO Sports who also produced "61*" about Roger Maris' chase of Babe Ruth's homerun record, and Michael Greenburg ("Stargate SG-1").
Just when the film might make it to television is unclear. Shelton can't even begin writing the script until after the current strike by television and film writers is settled.
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Wonder who'll get the lead role...
well they would need 2 a before BALCO barry and a post BALCO barry
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In many ways, baseball players are a lot like everybody else. They often say what they're expected to say, not what they really think.
Just consider the difference in messages coming out of the San Francisco Giants' camp.
A year ago, Barry Zito was working hard to become Barry Bonds' best friend. He and his San Francisco teammates were saying good things about the selfish slugger, who was on the verge of breaking the all-time home run record.
But with Bonds no longer around, Zito and others tell a different story.
Zito told San Francisco reporters that a lot of players weren't "comfortable in their own skin" around Bonds, including himself.
"I'm excited," Zito said.
Reliever Tyler Walker agreed that players often walked on eggshells around Bonds. He could break up a conversation or chill a room with a turn of his head.
During the 2001 season, Rick Reilly wrote in Sports Illustrated that you always knew the score in the Giants' clubhouse -- 24-1. There was Bonds, and there was everyone else.
That meant that since Bonds' arrival from Pittsburgh in 1993 there generally have been two sets of rules -- one for Bonds and one for everybody else.
Walker says it will be great to be rid of the double standard Bonds created.
"I just had some preliminary conversations with Randy Winn about keeping everyone on the same level," Walker said. "If stretching is at 4 o'clock, you're out there or it's a fine, so nobody feels [there's] preferential treatment."
While the Giants began spring training in Scottsdale, Ariz., Bonds reportedly was working out at UCLA, awaiting an offer that would give him a chance to add to his total of 762 home runs. It doesn't seem likely anyone will sign him, leaving him free to concentrate his efforts on defending himself on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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- Stan Musial, with his easy to understand definition of OPS
La Russa awoke from his drunken stupor to say, "Let's sign Bonds." Cardinals ownership responded, "ARE YOU NUTS?"
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- Stan Musial, with his easy to understand definition of OPS
SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Giants have now removed prominent tributes in the stadium to Barry Bonds, who has steroid allegations and perjury charges hanging over his head.
The left-field wall no longer bears an image of Bonds chasing Hank Aaron for the home run crown, nor elsewhere is the number of Bonds' home runs in relation to Aaron posted.
There are no "756" signs -- signifying the home run he hit to break Aaron's record -- anywhere in the park, in fact.
Bonds, 43, has said he is fit and ready to play, but in a media event Wednesday, team president Peter Magowan said that they would not accept Bonds back, even at a reduced price.
"No, not this team," he said, standing along the first-base line of a ballpark where images of Bonds have been removed. "We're going in a new direction; that would not be going in a new direction. The time has come to turn the page."
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_________________ "You wait for a strike, then you knock the sh*t out of it."
- Stan Musial, with his easy to understand definition of OPS
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