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Paul Gutierrez
Raised in Barstow, Calif., where he played community college baseball for two years, Paul Gutierrez has worked at Sports Illustrated and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he covered his alma mater's Runnin' Rebels at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. During a six-year stint at the Los Angeles Times, he co-authored Tommy Davis' "Tales from the Dodgers Dugout." He came to The Bee in October 2005 and is now a Bay Area sports features writer who concentrates on baseball during the spring and summer.

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July 15, 2007

Kickin' it

I spent about 20 minutes before today's game chatting up Dodgers journeyman reliever Rudy Seanez, 38, who wants to go into mixed martial arts cage-fighting when his baseball career is over.

Seanez, who has taken taekwondo and jiu-jitsu classes, credits martial arts training for his longevity in the game - and, no, he has not had to use it on the field during a baseball fight.

According to Giants media relations people, Barry Bonds dabbled in martial arts when he first signed with San Francisco in 1993. And former Giant-turned-Dodger Jeff Kent, they said, participated in the kicking art of taekwondo to loosen up his hips and core to better assist him at second base when turning double plays.

Funny, Bonds and Kent just kinda choked and pushed each other when they got into that infamous dugout tiff in 2002.

- Paul Gutierrez

Posted by Ahmed Ortiz, July 15, 2007 03:46 PM

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