Towers did not say how the ticket and marketing people responded, but the Padres did not offer Bonds a contract.
Back then, the Padres did not offer Bonds a contract because their ownership group was trying to dump star players, not add them.
Two days later the Giants sent Bonds a contract without the offending promotional provision, but he refused to sign it because he was angry that another clause had become public.
At its heart, a bond is a contract that provides for the loan of money that will be repaid in the future, while interest will be paid in the interim.
A performance bond is a contract between the Minister for Mines and Petroleum and a third-party of financial standing acceptable to the Minister.
Jamie Dinan, founder of York Capital Management, said 2008 was going to be known as a year when "the industry and many managers in the industry broke a covenant, a bond, an unwritten contract as to what they were doing, where investors' money was and the availability of that money".
Owner Bond Offshore has a contract to ferry BP's oil workers to and from the mainland.
British authorities said Mr. Micalizzi had lied to investors about the fund's losses, and purchased a bond contract, which the Financial Services Authority did not believe was a genuine financial product, to create artificial gains to offset the losses.
Mr. Gulati, 44, is a bond contract specialist who enjoys digging into the ins and outs of negative pledges, pari passu and other boilerplate arcana.
NML has for a long time been pursuing Argentina, which defaulted on $100 billion worth of debt in 2002, in court arguing that core a bond contract principal that states that all investors receive equal treatment was violated when the country cut a deal with some investors who were willing to take a haircut while Elliott held out.
Bonds does not have a contract and no teams have publicly expressed interest in signing him.
