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Kurtenbach: Bumgarner’s rodeo moonlight validates Giants

Hobbies are important. They enrich life — one’s profession should not be the sole expression of an individual’s passions.

I, for one, enjoy making, listening, and learning about music, houseplants, beer, tech gadgets, and bicycles among many other things.

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Tame — perhaps even lame. I know. It’s especially lame compared to now-Diamondbacks pitcher Madison Bumgarner’s’ hobbies — all of which seem to involve a disproportionately high likelihood of physical harm.

By now you know that Bumgarner has been participating in rodeo events under a pseudonym — Mason Saunders. The Athletic first reported it on Sunday.