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He will not get signed, especially after surgery.
Which is a pity. The guy sat out a year. I can rationalize that as a suspension. Let him show people he can still DH PED free.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies
Ok someone is going to sign him. He is Barry freakin' Bonds. Someone will pay him something as long as its not too much. If the price is right I don't see why a GM wouldn't take the gamble that could pay off huge.
Yeah, he didn't play all of last year, but now that he's a year older, has some rust on him from not playing and has had hip surgery...yes NOW someone's going to ink him up. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Big Mikey
Last year was basically because he was blackballed by everyone. He's paid his due. A one year deal with a low base salary with lots of insentives does not seem out of the realm of possibility.
I don't see why anybody thinks he'll actually wind up signing this year. There were a handful of teams that could've used him last year, and I do think something fishy was up given that he hadn't signed, but a year later, now, the arguments against signing him are even stronger, and I think hold a lot more water than they did last year. It's a long shot that he signs.
I don't see it happening. What makes him more attractive to a team than he was last year when you factor in the continued aging, the hip surgery and the rust? I said it last year and I'll say it again this year...singing Bonds would bring such a ridiculous amount of media attention down on the team that it has the potential to absolutely crush some of the players. Not everyone excels playing under a microscope...adding Bonds puts the whole roster under a miscroscope because every single day there is going to be reporter after reporter after reporter shoving a mike in the faces of every other guy on the team asking "How do you feel about Barry being on the team?" "How is Barry in the locker room?" "Is Barry's impending trial date a distraction?" etc, etc, etc.
Then the trial comes. And that's when things REALLY get fun, because now the media start asking "How do you feel having a man who may have cheated the game on your team?" I absolutely guaran-damn-tee you some guys are going to say it does bother them, and others are going to take the opposite view. And now you have a locker room splitting apart. And amusingly, even though none of it is actually Barry's fault, he will of course get all the blame.
I tend to agree... although, I doubt that many players (if any) would be "crushed" by the increased media exposure. I could only see that lasting for maybe a month or so, anyway.
I'd love to see the Halos pick him up on a one year, low dollar amount contract. It certainly couldn't hurt.
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Originally Posted by ohms_law
It's too bad he won't be ready by ST. Then the Angels could 'invite' him to see how he works out.
He probably would not want low dollars. If in some surprising way he is signed, I would expect a contract paying like Clemens. Which would be a lot if he started the season with the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by ohms_law
Bonds last year said he'd sign to a league minimum contract and offer his salary to charity.Quote:
Originally Posted by RedsoxRockies
If that is true, then ignore my last post. However, you never know what will come next in the Bonds saga. But, at minimum salary, he may still be worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
i'd take a league min chance on him and invite him to my spring training to see how he does. Even if I were an NL team, I would take on the PR. It's not really going to be any worse then some other pre madonna players. He can't possibly hurt anyone as bad pr wise as he did the giants.
And he didn't hurt the Giants. They raked in tons of money because he boosted attendance, even after the HR record fell.
I guess I just have this impression that he damaged them and made them a one man offensive team after so long. He was basically the most hated man in baseball for so long. Then again, people normally do hate the best...wether or not he cheated...they still hate him cause of his attitude, arrogance, etc. hell I hated him. but you can't deny how good he was.
This may be true, but that's Brian Sabean's fault, not Bonds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeffy25