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mkg809
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Any chance Bonds will get signed for the upcoming season?
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mkg809
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mkg809
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mkg809
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mkg809
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You would really want Bonds on the Sox? Not me. What would they do with him, other than give Ortiz a break once in awhile. I really hope that never happens. He's not worthy.
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<< <i>Perk,
You would really want Bonds on the Sox? Not me. What would they do with him, other than give Ortiz a break once in awhile. I really hope that never happens. He's not worthy. >>
For a bench player- yes. Providing he keeps his mouth shut and doesnt act like a jerk ofcourse, who can hit HR's from our bench????
it is bound to be a distraction to whatever team he is on with reporters wanting to get comments from other players all the time about
Barry. While he might contribute to a team is it worth the inevitable sideshow circus?
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<< <i>Perk,
You would really want Bonds on the Sox? Not me. What would they do with him, other than give Ortiz a break once in awhile. I really hope that never happens. He's not worthy. >>
For a bench player- yes. Providing he keeps his mouth shut and doesnt act like a jerk ofcourse, who can hit HR's from our bench???? >>
Okay you got me there, I just don't think the chemistry would work by any stretch. Maybe Sean Casey will hit 5-6 HRs, which is probably more than Mirabelli.
A local paper here said the Rays might be interested. That would certainly put some fans in the seats, but I will believe it when I see it.
<< <i>somebody will sign him he puts fans in the seats >>
A desperate team like the Rays appears to be where he is headed.
<< <i>Providing he keeps his mouth shut and doesnt act like a jerk ofcourse >>
That would never happen. Regardless of how many fans he'd bring, he's simply bad for baseball.
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<< <i>Providing he keeps his mouth shut and doesnt act like a jerk ofcourse >>
That would never happen. Regardless of how many fans he'd bring, he's simply bad for baseball. >>
The glare of the media in a big market like Boston, New York or Chicago would not be good for Bonds or the team.
It would not take long before he made enemies with some sports writer or broadcaster and things would turn ugly pretty quickly
I would imagine. The same thing could happen in a smaller market too of course but probably wouldn't attract as much attention
around the country.
plus, he can hit behind carlos pena!
March 1, 2008
CBSSports.com wire reports
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Bud Selig says he isn't trying to keep Barry Bonds out of baseball, and the commissioner told the Houston Astros it's up to them whether to have Roger Clemens in their spring training camp.
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Selig made the comments in an informal meeting Saturday with reporters at Scottsdale Stadium, where the San Francisco Giants played the Oakland Athletics.
He also confirmed that he met with Giants owner Peter Magowan and that Major League Baseball investigators spoke with the team's general manager, Brian Sabean, about the findings in the Mitchell Report on drugs.
Selig and Magowan sat together for the Cactus League game.
The commissioner declined to offer any other information on the talks but said he still hopes to decide on any punishment as a result of the report by the end of spring training.
"The conversations go on and I said I was going to handle all this on a case-by-case basis," Selig said. "These are very sensitive matters."
Bonds, who passed Hank Aaron to become baseball's home run king last season, was indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. The indictment accuses him of lying to a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative's involvement in the distribution of steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing substances.
After 15 seasons with San Francisco, Bonds was not re-signed by the Giants after last season and has not hooked on with another club. He has denied ever knowingly using steroids or other illegal performance enhancers.
Selig said he has a personal opinion on whether Bonds should be in baseball, but he would keep it to himself.
"Every club is free to do whatever they want with whom," said Selig, adding that he had not read Bonds' grand jury testimony that was ordered released by a judge on Friday.
When asked if it was appropriate for Clemens to be in Astros camp, Selig said: "I have said to (owner) Drayton McLane and the Houston club that that's a decision they have to make."
Clemens has appeared at the Astros' spring training workouts in Florida, sometimes throwing batting practice to minor leaguers, but has not signed to pitch for any team this season. He does have a 10-year personal services contract with the Astros that starts when he retires.
In the Mitchell Report, Clemens' former personal trainer, Brian McNamee, said he injected the seven-time Cy Young Award winner with steroids and human growth hormone -- a charge the pitcher has vehemently denied.
The FBI has opened a probe to determine whether Clemens or McNamee lied in recent testimony to Congress.
Clemens told a House committee that he had never used steroids or HGH. McNamee testified that he injected the pitcher with the drugs.
While not speaking specifically about the Giants, Selig indicated he did not believe any team had been unfairly singled out in the Mitchell Report.
"George Mitchell talked to every team, many owners, almost every general manager," Selig said. "Whatever he came up with, he came up with, but he had access to everybody. He didn't need subpoena power there."
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of the owners he is supposed to be setting policy for?
No Barry yet.