10.) This is a little out of left field — pun somewhat intended — because I’m asking about Barry Bonds, but your mom at one point in an earlier show mentioned that you went to high school with Barry Bonds and that he used to cheat off of you. I wanted to hear a little more about that.
I wrote about it a long time ago for “Men’s Health,” but that was before the Internet so I don’t [know if] the story even exists anymore. But we were in different grades. I think when he was a junior I was a sophomore, and sophomore year at Serra High School is when you started taking Spanish or whatever elective language you chose. He sat to my right behind me and whenever we had quizzes he would just start kicking my chair and I’d have to move my sheet to the right — ’cause I was actually a pretty good student — and he was a grade older than I was and he’d cheat off me. He was really really skinny back then, and mysteriously he got really big. I don’t know how that happened.
He was kind of a jerk. That was the whole point of the article I wrote. He was just a jerk. And he realized he didn’t have to study, he was going to be a famous ball player. Serra High School is like the home of great athletes. I mean that’s where — what’s his name — Tom Brady went there, Gregg Jefferies and God knows who else. I’m just a nicer person, generally.
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