O/T Barry Bonds announces retirement

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Posted By: Paul

I know it's off topic, but it's kind of on topic since he is close to passing Ruth in homeruns. Barry Bonds has announced he will retire at the end of the year, whether he passes Aaron or not. For the ghoulish among us who want to handicap how many homers his body can crank out, Bonds reports that he cannot run because he has no cartilage in his knee -- just bone scraping against bone. But he says he can still swing a bat.

I don't know Bonds so I don't know whether he is the kind of person who might later change his mind, or the kind of person who might make up the retirements story entirely just for fun. But he is in the final year of a five year contract.