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March 11, 2006
Smart Lady
From The Mercury News:
With seven more home runs, the Giants' Barry Bonds would move into second place on baseball's all-time list.
Or, as Julia Ruth Stevens put it: ``Daddy will go down to third.''
The man she calls daddy is the man the rest of the world calls Babe Ruth. Stevens lives in Sun City, Ariz., just a short drive from where Commissioner Bud Selig announced this week that he would launch a review into the latest steroid allegations surrounding Bonds.
The Babe's adopted daughter is 88 and legally blind, but she can see the news if she sits close enough to her big-screen television. Her heart sank as she watched the latest Bonds events unfold this week.
``I personally hate controversy,'' Stevens said, hesitantly. ``But I really and truly think baseball waited too long to do something about it. They should have done something right away and nipped this in the bud.
``They hung around and hung around until it was too late.''
``Daddy's going down to third in that particular category, but I think he'll always be No. 1 in people's hearts,'' she said.
It's kinda cute to hear an 88-year-old woman refer to someone as "Daddy," no?
Posted by Steve Lombardi at March 11, 2006 08:48 AM