Bonds Ready, and Waiting...Still Waiting

Barry Bonds is still waiting for a team to sign him. He has OBP potential, but that's it. He has no speed or defence, AT ALL. He has a bit of power, but little contact ability. Nobody will stop with the Bonds to Seattle rumors, and he looks like a fit because he will walk, a lot. Something that the Mariners will need. But there are still too many question marks surrounding him. His baggage weighs more than the fifty pounds that Southwest allows you to carry on board your flight. There's no more homerun chase, but can the Mariners really sell their fans on Bonds' chase for 3000 hits? He needs another 65 hits to get to the milestone, but will he get the oppurtunity?

Will he get in to the Hall of Fame? TBD. Same for Roger Clemens now. I wouldn't vote for Bonds to be in the Hall, but would I vote for Clemens? I don't know. This is where we get in to the arguement on whether or not Bonds should be in the Hall of Fame or not. Based on purely statistics, yes. A 100% vote in his favour. With the steriod asterisk beside his name? Again TBD. I can't say whether or not he will catch on somewhere, or deserves to. But if the Hall of Fame is based purely on numbers alone, my vote would be for him. Another thing, he hasn't failed a drug test, but's it's pretty much everything else surrounding steroids that puts him under the microscope. Also the fact that in the 80's, he was a twig. Come 2000, he was an oak tree. Facts don't usually lie because they are facts. If they weren't true then they wouldn't be facts, now would they?

We will continue this discussion later.