We're a week or so into spring training here, the winter meetings have long come and gone, and Barry Bonds is still unemployed. No one seems to want to take a chance on him. San Diego seemed to be the most logical destination, but still, nothing.So if no MLB teams aren't going to take a chance with the 43-year-old slugger, his agent said he might take his services overseas.
"He's not retiring," Bonds' agent, Jeff Borris, told Metro yesterday. "He intends to play somewhere. If a door doesn't open for Barry in the major leagues, as unbelievable as that possibility sounds, then Japan certainly is an option."It would be a bit odd, but perhaps fitting last chapter for a man that -- PEDs or not -- is going to go down as one of the best hitters of all time. Although, this could make it easier for him to take down Sadaharu Oh now, right?
Borris, remarkably, has been driving from training camp to training camp in Florida, hoping to persuade a general manager of some major-league club to give Bonds a new opportunity.
HT: Larry Brown Sports
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2-25-2008 @ 1:42AM
A BaseBall Fan said...
Though I realize their situation are somewhat different, it is kinda curious...Clemens is welcome in Astroland seeminly with open arms...Bond who broke the home run record can't find a job....???
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2-25-2008 @ 11:27AM
John Q Celebrity said...
Baseball Fan, Clemens is there as a pitching coach for Spring Training and the rookies. Bonds would never stoop so low as to help anyone but himself.
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2-25-2008 @ 12:23PM
TONY C. said...
BONDS IS A FREAK.....A CLOWN THAT WAS CAUGHT DOING HGH TO PLAY BETTER...ALL HIS RECORDS ARE "" NON-RECORDS "" AND IN THE FUTURE HE WILL BE VIEW I STEP ABOVE POSS. O.J.SIMPSON...HOF F.O.R.G.E.T. ABOUT 1T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! E...V...E...R... !!!!!, I LET IN SHOELESS JOE JACKSON IN IST BEFORE THIS LOW LIFE......THE FLASH OF N.J.......
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2-25-2008 @ 4:42PM
john said...
Several players in the past have pointed out how Barry has helped them out for no reason. David Eckstein, Rich Aurillia, and I think it was Roy Oswalt who said Barry's pep talk saved his career when he started out.
Those articles disappear quickly though.
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2-25-2008 @ 5:11PM
GreatR said...
It will be nice to have Bonds out of the country. Japan's loss is our gain. Hope he renounces his citizenship and stays in Japan until he dies.
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2-25-2008 @ 5:14PM
A BaseBall Fan said...
Excuse me, but wouldn't the steriods and HGH that Clemens supposedly used help him also? It helped his ERA, prolonged his career, helped him win more games, helped his checking account by millions and millions and millions of dollars? He has records that if he took steriods are very questionable also...? So how can Clemens get the arms open treatment and Bonds the parriah treatment?
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