Barry Bonds Is Ready To Play Regardless Of That Whole Court Date Nonsense

It’s amazing that the two comeback stories that have dominated the press lately don’t even have any actual active players in them. There’s the Brett Farve ordeal, which the less said the better, and then there’s the Barry Bonds fiasco. Bonds’ agent has been working overtime trying to get him on a roster, but no one wants a perennial All-Star who can hit home runs and get on base. Nope, not one team. It has to be his prohibitively bad knees, right?

“Give him 10 days to hit off live pitching, and he’ll be ready,” agent Jeff Borris told USA Today. “I can’t believe he doesn’t have a job. No one has offered even the minimum salary. He made the All-Star team last year, and there’s no reason to believe he wouldn’t have a repeat performance in 2008, except for the conspiracy against him.”

Wow, that’s quite the throwaway line at the end there, Jeff. You mean that whole “no teams want him because he’s about to go to trial for perjury” conspiracy? Damn them.

Borris told the newspaper that Bonds continues to work out. He would be available to play this season since his trial date for perjury and obstruction of justice won’t begin until March 9, 2009.

But until then he’s golden. He’ll even sign some balls over a senior center… you know, as some goodwill toward the city and some hours-earned credits should he ever have to do community service for lying his ass off to the federal government.
Report: Agent says Bonds could be ready to play in bigs in 10 days [ESPN]
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