Bonds: Acted ‘straight stupid’ during MLB career

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Former slugger Barry Bonds continues to try to make amends for his actions during his playing days, saying he was “straight stupid” to have acted the way he did toward others during his major-league career.

“Me. It’s on me. I’m to blame for the way I was [portrayed], because I was a dumbass. I was straight stupid, and I’ll be the first to admit it,” Bonds told SportsOnEarth.com last week for an interview published Wednesday.

“I mean, I was just flat-out dumb. What can I say? I’m not going to try to justify the way I acted toward people. I was stupid. It wasn’t an image that I invented on purpose. It actually escalated into that, and then I maintained it. You know what I mean? It was never something that I really ever wanted. No one wants to be treated like that, because I was considered to be a terrible person. You’d have to be insane to want to be treated like that. That makes no sense.”

Bonds, who is in his first season as hitting coach of the Miami Marlins, was known for being standoffish — to teammates and media — during his major-league career.

“Hell, I kick myself now, because I’m getting great press [now], and I could have had a trillion more endorsements, but that wasn’t my driving force,” Bonds told the website. “The problem was, when I tried to give in a …

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