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09.27.2007
SF Weekly Gets the Goods On Barry

The SF Weekly cover story this week is all about new Bonds revelations. Authors: Nic Foit and Ira Tes. Get it? Try this.

Not that you really needed confirmation. The story is so beyond the bounds of responsible journalism (the single source is an ex-con who shared a cell with Greg Anderson) and loaded with over-the-top details that the satire leaps off the page.

Maybe it’s a satire of the media coverage of Bonds, maybe it’s a satire of Bonds himself, maybe a little of both. But it’s so two years ago, so infantile and obvious, it would have trouble making the cut in a high school humor magazine. Barry drank elk semen! Nyuk-nyuk! I stopped reading the SF Weekly a long time ago except for this guy, and this story shows why.

What’s worse: the Weekly with its hare-brained inconsequential features or the Bay Guardian with the rigid dogma it tries to pass off as news? Discuss.



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[September 28, 2007 12:15 PM]  |  link  |  reply
rocketdog said

SFBG is worse, IMO, if for nothing else than the enormous ideological chip on its shoulder, but I usually don't read either except for the restaurant reviews. Although one of my favorite professors from film school writes the repertory movie reviews for the SF Weekly, and that's kind of cool.

[September 28, 2007 12:17 PM]  |  link  |  reply
obsessivegiantscompulsive said

FYI: Mercury has some details on when Barry's deferred payments come due. $5.8M is deferred from this year to 2008 (I think you got that one) plus he earned $3.5M in incentives this season that will be paid in 2009 (so the Giants probably pays half in 2008, rest in 2009).

They also reminded that Bonds has his personal services contract, though apparently it is so vaguely worded that either party could void it pretty easily. But Bonds apparently noted in a Saturday interview, when asked about this contract, that "I will always be close," that he would maintain a close relationship with the franchise after he retires.

Since I'm talking about the Merc, I would also like to note that it is pretty hypocritical of them to have their columnists continually bash Barry but then have a bunch of collectibles in the newspaper that Barry fans would like.

[September 28, 2007 3:11 PM]  |  link  |  reply
ELM said

>I would also like to note that it is pretty hypocritical of them to have their columnists continually bash Barry but then have a bunch of collectibles in the newspaper that Barry fans would like.

No it isn't. The editorial and advertising sides don't -- or shouldn't -- talk to each other. If the columnists were to mute their criticism or even write positively of Bonds because of Bonds-related advertising, that would be worse than hypocritical, it would be unethical and possibly illegal.

[September 29, 2007 8:34 PM]  |  link  |  reply
Ed Attanasio said

I think it's great. Fiction and Satire are the authors, which is hilarious on its own. A radio station in Chicago read portions of the article on the air Friday. They were totally fooled!