Barry Bonds Strikes Out with Wife

Barry BondsTMZ has learned Barry Bonds' wife has filed for legal separation.

Bonds and Liz Watson were married in 1998. They have one daughter together. It is his second marriage.

Liz greeted Bonds when he hit his history making 755th* home run in 2007.

The papers, filed Friday in L.A. County Superior Court, cite irreconcilable differences.

Liz has requested joint legal and physical custody of their 10-year-old daughter. She's also asking for spousal support.

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16. 15. Anything over 10 yrs is a long-term marriage. She's entitled.

Such bitter, bitter men.

Posted at 7:19PM on Jun 8th 2009 by Me

You are correct that that is what the law states. That does not mean the law is just or right. Hell, the law also provided the right to own slaves at one point in American History. Even back then owning another human being was wrong and just as you argue, slave owners would have argued the same justification: "The law allows it".

Call me bitter if you like, but the reality is that I dislike seeing a person get divorced AND screwed out of money. Especially when that person provided for a lifestyle within the marriage that the ex-spouse could never have achieved on their own.

Posted at 7:56PM on Jun 8th 2009 by Mike

17. I am surprised Liz has been with this cheating bastard for so long!
They were married in 1998 in the San Francisco Ritz-Carlton Hotel. However, Bonds also had an extensive intimate relationship with Kimberly Bell from 1994 through May, 2003. (He purchased a home in Scottsdale, Arizona for Kimberly.) Liz and Barry have one child together, and child support and alimony should be paid accordingly.

Posted at 8:29PM on Jun 8th 2009 by Mrs. Cannavaro

18. Why should she be awarded money for being his ex wife? She leaving him, she can get a job. and if he has all this money why not full custody of his kid, and her broke ass can get a job to support her child! Isn't prostitution against the law? then why pay her or any woman for services rendered. Get a job like everyone else!

Posted at 8:42PM on Jun 8th 2009 by Golddiggers GotoHell

19. His arms got bigger and other things got smaller.....

Posted at 8:56PM on Jun 8th 2009 by Bex

20. Just maybe Liz Watson became fed-up with Barry's LYING about his steroid use? It would be refreshing if he'd just admit he used them and put it behind his big, broad ass.

Eejit...

Posted at 8:56PM on Jun 8th 2009 by litzi

21. didn't his last wife divorce him because of abuse?? wouldn't be surprised if that was the case here too and if it is she deserves the money. there's nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom

Posted at 9:47PM on Jun 8th 2009 by no name

22. SEEMS MANY STILL HAVEN'T LEARNED that steroids isn't a Bonds issue. IT'S A MLB LEAGUE ISSUE and EPIDEMIC! That means at least half the players in the league are doing what Barry was doing! Now Alex Rodriguez.

Cardinals Mark McGwire got out just before the heat started getting turned up.


Jose Canseco was right! WAKE UP!

Posted at 10:56PM on Jun 8th 2009 by jeff

23. He's such an arrogant ahole. I remember several years ago he was at a club in St. Louis with some white woman (obviously ..not his wife) with fake t@ts and quite the hoochie outfit. He was acting pretty cocky... I guess she was some kind of trophy. Kinda happy to see his spiral down activity. I hope the wife takes him for everything that he didn't earn honestly.

Posted at 11:08PM on Jun 8th 2009 by teebag

24. Maybe his tiny pee pee could not satisfy her.

Posted at 11:12PM on Jun 8th 2009 by yogi

25. Everybody took steroids.
Bonds was still the greatest because everyone cheated, so hes the greatest amongst the cheaters.
Who's to say Aaron didn't do stuff too? They weren't testing then.
Truth be told, Ruth invented the home run ball. Prior to Ruth, the person with the most HR's usually had about 8 or so. Ruth revolutionized the game.
Besides, was Emmett Smith better than Sweetness (Walter Payton)? I doubt it but he has the yardage record.

Posted at 11:50PM on Jun 8th 2009 by leave the gun, take the cannolis.

26. Am I the only 1 who realizes how HOT his wife is?

She's a total MILF!

Posted at 11:54PM on Jun 8th 2009 by MarkJ

27. Did she grow tired of roid rages?

Posted at 12:09AM on Jun 9th 2009 by Portia

28. The guy is a disgrace to baseball.....Big Doper!

Posted at 12:47AM on Jun 9th 2009 by Hollywood Watcher

29. Hey, folk, roid-juice goin' down makes the wotld (series) go 'round. Don't eat Barry's cake 'cause you got no homeplate... batter-er may be done but there's always gonna be Sun. So his cow got milked... it ain't leather off your pants...
slide, Barry, slide... you got nuthin' to lose.

Posted at 1:41AM on Jun 9th 2009 by Buddy

30. Of course she wants spousal support. That's the only reason she's divorcing him.

Posted at 11:39AM on Jun 9th 2009 by Jenn

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