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 Post subject: Barry Bonds' bionic elbow
PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:41 pm 
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This is the first I've heard of this. Pretty interesting. Any thoughts?


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:15 pm 
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And an opposing view from Matthew Felling on Public Eye:

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I’d heard a lot of things about Barry Bonds – being a frequent and pathetic listener of sports radio – but had never heard somebody try to pin down an exact number of homers that his arm guard helped with. And I wasn’t quite sure how one would generate such a number.


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I'm not George F. Vecsey, but it reads like nonsense to me.


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Photo of Bonds in the local paper showed him "pointing to the sky" after hitting #756. Actually, he appeared to be holding up his bionic elbow.


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:27 pm 
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An interesting interview with the builder of the brace can be found here (mp3). He essentially calls Michael Witte's article bullshit. (Text is available here for subscribers to Baseball Prospectus)


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