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it's one of those things where yes, it's hard to believe that not one of the 30 teams would have a place for him.http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/rumors/p...?urn=mlb,96037
bonds should be offered a contract by the paddress
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but, when you analyze each of these teams individually, it's pretty easy to make 30 separate cases against adding him.
name one team that would want to put up with the Barry Bonds circus?
its not about numbers, this is all something Barry Bonds brought onto himself. If it were about numbers 30 teams would have lined up to sign him.
Well the Arod circle is pretty close if not worse at this point.
Bottom line the owners are wrong on this. They are keeping a man from doing his job.
Being an unloyal headed prima dona for years and years and years finally comes back to bite someone. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Bull . Barry Bonds is keeping Barry Bonds from doing his job. If you or I or an mere mortal had broken sacred rules of our jobs, been repeatedly surly with customers (fans) and had repeated clashes with co-workers, would we get hired at a new job? Probably not.
As much as fans like to forget this, baseball is a business, and hiring someone who could be in a heap of legal trouble and has been out of the workplace for nearly a year just doesn't happen in the real world.
which owner? in order for that argument to hold water, there have to be owners that would clearly take him without collusion taking place.
he's brutal in LF, so he doesn't make much sense for an NL team.
half the AL teams weren't contending this year anyways, so he doesn't make any sense for them.
of the AL teams left, most of those already have a solid DH.
so, really, you're only left with 4 or 5 teams that he could play for. and you could make arguments against him signing in any of those spots.
like it or not, bad publicity is a PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE reason not to hire someone.
Actually that is Bull that you or I would not find a new job. we probably could in the same field. What you do at one company unless it is criminal is not going to go to the next job. The new job could care less how you and your coworkers or previous manager got a long. I have seen this happen in real life when a Asshole gets fired and the next day is working for the rival company.
As far as the press coverage that is a serperate issue. Which is to me comes from the top of MLB. Bonds did the same thing as Giambi, yet MLB is supportive of Giambi as are the fans and were trying to promote him for the All Star game? Yet Bonds is not able to get a job??
Bottom line Bonds is a good player still with the bat. Numbers don't lie in baseball and when he plays he puts up good numbers. And as of yet he still has not been proven to have taken any more steroids than any other player that has/was accussed. This is a union labor issue, so us non-union guys have a different view that someone that would be part of a union. The union is there to protect all of its union members. Even if the member is like Bonds. He has the same rights as any other member of the union.
Bottom line from my position. I believe that Bud Selig is behind the reason that Bonds does not have a job in baseball. I for one would love to see Bonds come out with a book on how dirty baseball was from top to the bottom. I understand that Bonds is a Asshole to the media (or that is how they report it), is not the most fan friendly player (He is not the only one in any pro sports), is not the greatest teammate, and he did use steroids ( just like most every other MLB player that played during that time). But to make him the escape goat for all of MLB is wrong. If you wanted to put Selig and Bonds together then I would be fine with it. But for Bud to say he knew nothing is more of a joke than anything Bonds has done.
If Bonds came out and admitted that he had taken steroids and he regrets the decision, there would not be the hooplah that is the Barry Bonds steroid circus. He would have a job. And I doubt he needs one after he was making 10+million a year.
Well, Giambi didn't really admit either.
But the fact of the matter is that he wasn't chasing one of baseball's most hallowed records.
To some extent, Bonds is a victim of his own success (even if it was obtained illegally).
However, none of that changes the fact that 30 individual teams have every right to NOT hire him for multiple reasons. Just because those reasons have been overlooked with other players doesn't take away their right to do that.
Listening to Sports radio when all they talk about for months is Bonds, makes you want to shoot yourself.
Thank god that is all over.
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