Ugliness of divorce inevitable

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Like a lot of divorces, the split of Barry Bonds from the Giants is ugly, with a lot of hurt feelings. Bonds believes that the Giants knew long ago that they were going to dump him at the end of this year and announced his departure on his Web site, leaving the team to scramble in response. And Bonds was not a part of the press conference, curtly telling reporters that they had his statement.

It will get uglier still. Bonds will inevitably take some shots at the Giants, in interviews or maybe through his Web site, and inevitably, many more stories about his selfishness will leak out of the organization, especially now that they don't have to tolerate his narcissism any longer.  
 

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    Buster Olney is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He began covering baseball in 1989, as the Nashville Banner's beat reporter assigned to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. Later, he covered the San Diego Padres (1993-94), the Baltimore Orioles ('95-96), the New York Mets ('97) and the Yankees ('98-2001). Olney joined ESPN The Magazine in 2003, after six years at The New York Times, and he's the author of the Times' best-seller "The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty," a book about the Paul O'Neill-Tino Martinez Yankees dynasty of 1996-01.

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