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Who's fooling who? Bonds coming back will hurt club.
By Tom Zulewski December 9, 2006 |
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Barry Bonds re-signing to make everyone think all is right in the Giants scheme of things, well Hallelujah! Bonds who will return to San Francisco in 2007, for a cool $16 million will haunt the Giants brass, as signing him will prove a deal that'll go south. Simply put Bonds has two bad knees and all the baggage that goes with him isn't worth his styling and profiling at #756 waiting in the wings. Bonds will collect that number sometime in either May or June of the new year as he'll circle the bases to pass Henry Aaron the current home run king. Bonds who played in only 14 games in 2005, and missed a number of crucial games at the end of the 2006 season which were make or break games in trying to catch San Diego in the NL West. Bonds plays and sits when he says it time to play or sit. The Giants coddling of Bonds from the leather recliners, the four lockers that line the corner back end of the Giants clubhouse will be all his again, the thin screen high def TV, are just the beginning of what’s to come for the repeat of being pampered. The surliness will continue the division in the Giant clubhouse that players, coaches, and Bruce Bochy will be keep under wraps as best as they could from the media. If anyone thinks this makes the Giants a better team it won't it just guarantees that San Francisco will not win the division or the wild card race simply because Bonds puts a sour flavor on the Giants cooking. Bonds won't stretch with the team unless he feels like it something that’s become a routine or non routine in Babo's case over the years. Bonds will continue to skip team photos, community appearances unless it’s financially beneficial to him to appear. Bonds has been known to give hitting tips to the younger players but that’s if his mood allows him to do so. Having a broken down 42 year old with a grouchy attitude and two bad knees you know Bonds and the 2007 season will be about three things, Barry, Barry and you guess it Barry. People will come to Pac Bell only for one thing this season and that's to see if Babo can make the ball swim in the drink and there will be throngs standing outside and inside the park on the night that he comes to the plate to pass Hammer for 756. Only one thing you could almost be assured of that Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig will not be there to greet the storied slugger for the moment as he said on many occasion he didn't see the need to be there for him placing second on the all time list and he'll find a way out of being there for number one. Hank Aaron himself has said that he'll even take a pass on the moment. Willie Mays is said to be the ambassador who will MC the festivities on the field when Bonds reaches the plateau. People will watch Barry, for only one thing the building of an asterisk filled run on Hank Aaron. Remember with the Giants this isn't owner Peter MacGowan, team President Larry Baer, General Manager Brian Sabean, or Manager Bruce Bochy's team it's Barry's once again and became that way for 2007 season when the Giants brass made the big mistake of re-signing Bonds for a cool $16 mill. I look forward to seeing Babo reclined in the lazy boy leather chair waving his hand at the media like a bunch of green flies and his reaching for the remote control and surfing channels while ignoring the reporters asking him questions the clubhouse will have that "Barry feeling" all over again. BALCO/Steroids: As far as the Feds are concerned their not through with the BALCO/Steroids investigations and you can bet that once spring training gets under way the investigation will be under a microscope again. Bonds former trainer Greg Anderson is sitting in a Dublin Correctional facility for the holidays and the U.S. Superior Judge who put him there will leave him there until Anderson can answer questions, like the calendars that Anderson kept records of when he gave Bonds steroids and growth hormone which were hand written by Anderson, and a 2003 wire tap of Anderson having a conversation admitting giving Bonds banned drugs. An Anderson testimony would implicate Bonds for perjury as Bonds has testified he never he never used steroids in a grand jury testimony in 2003. Federal agents can not go after Bonds unless Anderson testifies and Anderson who is a childhood friend of Bonds has made it clear to the court that he will not under no circumstances. Anderson has been in and out of jail for contempt of court four times in 2006. Meanwhile the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Saturday night that its two reporters Mark Fainaru Wada and Lance Williams will be facing indictments to testify who leaked grand jury testimony when Bonds said he used "the cream" and "the clear" and thought it was arthritis balm and flaxseed oil later to contain undetectable steroids in his grand jury testimony in 2003. Fainaru-Wada and Williams face jail if they do not testify who was the leak. The Chronicle had reported that the contempt of court charges against the two reporters could give them up to one year in jail or if the grand jury reconvenes. Fainaru-Wada and Williams wrote the book "Game of Shadows" which revolutionized the Bonds testimony which brought it to the court's attention that a leak had been made in the Bonds testimony. Tom Zulewski co-hosts Sportstalk on 1690 KFSG Sacramento. |
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