Why Is Barry Bonds Suck a Jerk?

Barry Bonds is such a jerk. Look at what he's doing now.

"Stow family attorney Thomas Girardi said that former slugger Barry Bonds has donated to pay for their college education. He said the family has talked about turning other donations back to the fans if this suit is successful, but said the gift of a college of education is something they treasure and will keep.

Bryan is a single father. He has a son and a daughter who are both in grade school.

Bonds visited Stow on April 22, while he was still in a Southern California hospital.

Sources close to Stow told NBC that Bonds also spent an hour in Stow's room and left a signed baseball bat for Stow's children.  At the time, there was no mention of a donation to a college fund."

What an asshole? He couldn't pay off Bryan Stow's medical bills or mortgage? Why is Barry Bonds such a jerk?

In all seriousness this is a tremendous gesture by Bonds and reason why Giants fans are so protective of the guy when media/opposing fans starting talking crap about Bonds. Is Bonds a jerk? Yes. Could Bonds be downright rude and arrogant when talking to the press? Absolutely. But there's always been a side of Barry Bonds that non-Giants fans/media ever saw.

Barry Bonds can be as sweet/funny/loving as Yogi Berra. After Bonds left the Giants, he would make an occasional appearance during a Giants broadcast. I always found Barry to be very insightful during these appearances and well as funny. Bonds calling Aaron Rowand "Scott" still makes me laugh. Barry is also very charitable so this Stow story doesn't surprise me at all.

That isn't the side of the story of Bonds that the media wants to share though and I always thought that was unfair. Shouldn't you give the guy a fair shake? Shouldn't you also share the stories of Bonds that would make people laugh?

I'm not though absconding Barry for his media portrayal either. Barry could have been more polite and not so cocky/arrogant/brash when talking with reporters. I always cringed when I saw him speaking to the media and going off on a rant, his voice rising to make a point. The public outside of Northern California only knows you as the guy they see on TV. And the guy they saw was very abrasive/abusive/cocky whatever adjective you like to use. Barry felt like he owed no one outside of San Francisco a favor so those people only saw Barry as the jerk he portrayed himself to be.

I will always have an appreciation for Barry Bonds. I'll always appreciate him for entertaining me during my youth during the summers. I'll appreciate Barry for his sense of humor. And I'll appreciate that Barry Bonds is like every other human being. He has personnel flaws. I have personnel flaws. You have personnel flaws. We just don't have a throng of media exposing our personnel flaws for over twenty years.

(Via NBC Bay Area)