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Barry Bonds addresses the media during a 2003 press conference at the height of the BALCO controversy. Bonds is being honored by the San Francisco Giants with the video called “The house that Barry Bonds built” (SF Gate file photo)

MLB The Show podcast Bruce Macgowan:

#1 The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants have some long and rich history that goes back to the late 1940s and through the 1950s and through today.

#2 Talking about some of those historic days of the Dodgers and Giants rivalries you were at the game in 1965 when former Giant Juan Marichal hit former Dodger John Roseboro with a bat on the head and causing a bench clearing melee. Years later Marichal made up with Roseboro. The baseball writers at the time didn’t vote to put Marichal in the Hall of Fame because of the incident but Roseboro went to the writers and said to give Marichal another chance and it was something that Marichal was forever grateful for.

#3 Former Dodger managers Walter Alston and Tommy LaSorda were legendary managers and took the Dodgers to the World Series. With current manager Dave Roberts he’s taken the Dodgers to the World Series numerous times under his tutelage do you consider Roberts in that same circle as Alston and LaSorda?

#4 The Giants are paying tribute to Barry Bonds with a video called “The House that Barry Built” some reporters and talk show hosts point out why are the Giants paying tribute to Bonds, that there is a reason why Bonds has not been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. They say he was a huge part of the BALCO controversy, he had alleged connections to steroids through his former trainer Greg Anderson and that he’s guilty in the court of public opinion as far as the BBWAA is concerned regarding the Federal Grand Jury investigation where he said he unknowingly took steroids and was found guilty of obstruction of justice. Does that all go away now that the Giants want to pay tribute to him?

#5 One of the biggest fears that fans have is what took place at Dodger Stadium when ICE agents showed up at their front gates trying to gain access to get at fans, employees, and anyone that moved. The Dodgers wound denying ICE access to the park. Is this still something that fans, employees and maybe even the players have to worry about at ball games?

Bruce Macgowan is a podcast contributor at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

ICE agents set up at the entrance of Gate E at Dodger Stadium before being asked to leave by the Los Angeles Dodgers ball club before their game against the visiting San Diego Padres (AP News photo)

ICE attempts access to Dodger Stadium proper; Denied entry by ballclub ; LAPD sent in to send away Federal Agents podcast with Daniel Dullum

Los Angels Dodgers and ICE agents met at the entrance gate at Dodger Stadium Thursday before the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers game at Chavez Ravine. Federal agents were just outside the stadium at the entrances trying to gain access to the ballpark property.

There were concerns about the White House’s immigration crackdown and ICE trying to get into the Dodgers parking lot. Protesters who had been in downtown Los Angeles rushed to the scene and started yelling anti US Immigration and Customs Enforcement slogans at the federal agents at the ballpark.

The other concern going forward now is that employees, fans, US citizens, naturalized citizens, undocumented citizens, and anyone doing any business at Dodger Stadium or at any professional sports venue has got to be concerned about being arrested and deported without due process as what has been reported in the news.

Daniel Dullum is a Major League Baseball podcast contributor at http://www.sportsradioservice.com