Comments on: Barry Bonds’ fuzzy math

By: Jer

Jer — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:04:52 +0000

It is not up to Barry or his agents to “offer his services” to any team or every team … it is up to a team to offer Barry a contract.

No team has offered Barry a contract, even for the MLB minimum salary. That is collusion and it is ordered by the Commisioner’s office and it is illegal.

You should know better, Joe.

By: foo

foo — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:06:58 +0000

Agree with previous commenter.

This comment thread is seriously off kilter.

Bonds would play for the minimum, and should be playing already. He could help a lot of teams.

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:36:40 +0000

Joe, you are my favourite writer. And you blew this one big time. The agent has stated publicly in the MSM that he will play for any team. While Dayton Moore can truthfully claim he has not received a phone call, we both know that is unnecessary – ALL GM’s know that Bonds is available. The simple question to ask was “Are you interested in Bonds if he plays for the minimum salary?” The answer would be newsworthy.

By: statscbl

statscbl — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:16:01 +0000

Good call Dusty

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:15:23 +0000

I don’t understand the sentiment of this post. With public statements floating around, it’s up to a GM (Dayton Moore) to call him and up and see if he’s bluffing. If he is, you have a huge story and you can call bullshit on this collusion nonsense, and if not you have a probably-very-good, future-hall-of-fame player for, like, the same cost of some dude just drafted out of high school.

Why sit on your ass and wait for Bonds to call up your team while playing the woe-is-we card when you can call him up and put his b ack to the wall to see if he’ll defend his public offers?

By: beRecruited SportsWrap » Baseball Just Says No To Barry Bonds

beRecruited SportsWrap » Baseball Just Says No To Barry Bonds — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:28:04 +0000

[...] or an offer to a few select teams to hire him for $28 million? No matter how Bonds and Borris do the math though, it’s clear that being charged with 14 counts of lying and one count of obstruction of [...]

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:51:09 +0000

I think your blog writing is at least as good as your day job. I swear. You’re awesome, Joe. Keep it up.

By: James

James — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:01:59 +0000

Lou was a morose broker but he was effective. The guy who was ineffective was the guy who lived next door to the Jeffersons. White guy with the black wife. Tom

By: John

John — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:01:04 +0000

Happy Days was aged when it aired. But if we didn’t have Happy Days we wouldn’t have these classic Simpsons line.

Homer: It’ll be great to see the old gang again. Potsie, Ralph, the Fonz.

Marge: That wasn’t you, that was Happy Days!

Homer: They weren’t all happy days. Like the time I lost all my money to those card sharks and my dad Tom Bosley had to get it back.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:02:21 +0000

“I donâ€™t know, I kinda think making public statements that your client is offering his services to all 30 teams at the pro-rated minimum is a form of offering your clientâ€™s services to all 30 teams at the pro-rated minimum.”

Except that the context of the original statement was “poor-pitiful-us” and phrased in the past tense.