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TurboMak
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Re: Game plan for opponents of the Giants is to walk Bonds often because he can't run 
3/12/06, 1:18pm (<font size=1 color=white>Last Edited: 3/12/06, 1:19pm</font>)
     The reason why Bonds takes so many walks in the first place is because of the fact that the Giants have had much less threatening players backing him up in the lineup for most of his time there.  If you were a pitcher about to match up against Barry in a close game and you see someone such as Lance Niekro, Ray Durham, or even a healthy Moises Alou out on deck, who would you rather face?  True, the hometown S.F. fans don't always get their moneys worth for this, but the Giant front office has done a poor job, for the most part, in trying to take that burden off of Ba-Bo.

[Jaydawg from Tarzana/CA]
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