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Netflix has drafted different shot fable for its MLB announcing team. The name? Bonds. Barry Bonds.
The streamer said coming that Major League Baseball‘s all-time location tally leader and seven-time NL MVP has joined nan booth squad for nan 3 MLB events it will screen this upcoming season. The legendary slugger will debut pinch Netflix’s opening-night crippled arsenic his erstwhile squad nan San Francisco Giants hosts nan New York Yankees connected March 25.
Bonds joins chap ex-Major Leaguers Albert Pujols, Anthony Rizzo, CC Sabathia and Hunter Pence connected nan announcing unit alongside Lauren Shehadi and big Elle Duncan. They besides will telephone nan yearly Home Run Derby connected July 13 and MLB astatine Field of Dreams crippled connected August 13, which will watercourse unrecorded connected Netflix.
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Next week’s opening-night crippled will beryllium Netflix’s inaugural travel to nan MLB sheet aft it inked a three-season woody pinch nan convention in November that besides gave TV authorities to NBCUniversal and ESPN. No financial position were announced, but Wall Street Journal pegged nan worth astatine $800 a twelvemonth arsenic viewers and advertisers proceed to flock to unrecorded sports.
Bonds is thing of a polarizing fig among shot fans. Inarguably 1 of nan league’s fistful of top players ever, his bequest was tarnished by doping allegations later successful his profession that person kept him retired of nan Baseball Hall of Fame. The boy of chap erstwhile Giants prima Bobby Bonds, he collapsed successful pinch nan 1986 Pittsburgh Pirates, playing 7 seasons pinch nan nine earlier joining San Francisco successful 1993. Barry Bonds spent his past 15 seasons pinch nan Giants, starring them to a 2002 World Series title earlier retiring successful 2007.
Along nan way, Bonds shattered a number of near-mythical MLB records including astir profession location runs (762), astir homers successful a azygous play (73 successful 2001) and astir MVP Awards pinch 7 — 4 of which came successful consecutive years pinch nan Giants from 2001-04.
