From today’s King Kaufman Daily:

“Barry looks great, thin, like a wire,” Giants manager Felipe Alou said this week about his star slugger, Barry Bonds. “He works so hard. He looked good and strong, and he said, ‘I’m ready to go.’”

In the wake of a 42-count indictment handed down in the BALCO steroid scandal, including charges brought against Bonds’ personal trainer, Greg Anderson, it might not have been the most politic thing for Alou to do to point out how thin Bonds looks. As spring training opens, the sporting world is going to be looking at Bonds and his fellow bulked-up superstars with a more suspicious than usual eye to see if body shapes have altered any with the presumptive steroid spigot clamped off.

You can read the rest of Barry Bond’s post-BALCO speculation at the story. Man, I need to find a picture of him… wonder if we get Spring Training games on the TV’s here… (yeah, I know that doesn’t help me today since we’re 3 weeks away from games, but still).