MIAMI
In baseball, as in life, few attributes are as hard to create - or defend - as a reputation. Barry Bonds is beyond trying anyway. He entered a Marlins Park suite Saturday at the start of spring training, with everything ahead of him for once, with a new thought.
"Good to be here," he said.
He was talking here with the Marlins, or maybe here at the Marlins FanFest event, or maybe even at this scheduled talk with the media. But it also fit with the idea of his returning to baseball, at 51, as the Marlins hitting coach, after eight years away.