[BlueBaron]

Barry Bonds walked out of a San Francisco courtroom Friday, free as ever to play ball.

With four months left of what was to be his 23rd season, the one in which he would have reached 3,000 hits and maybe put a few more home runs between himself and Alex Rodriguez, there will be no more hearings, no trials, no legal disturbances before next year.

That, until February, leaves one middle-of-the-order slugger available to a game leaking long balls and running low on name-brand designated hitters.

Hell, an incentive-juiced contract, a few weeks of minor league Dairy Queen stops, and by the first of July Bonds could be feeding fastballs to Miguel Cabrera in Detroit, or reviving a dead offense in Seattle, or selling tickets in Kansas City.

If Bonds were ever to be about baseball again, he would upgrade no fewer than 10 clubs at designated hitter today, even without the get-reacquainted at-bats and Dairy Queens.

Put Bonds in Cleveland’s lineup and the Indians, who batted .215 for the entire month of May and still somehow won 12 games, would run down the Chicago White Sox in two weeks. Give Bonds to Ron Gardenhire and the Twins would have the White Sox in one.

Bonds waits in baseball limbo - MLB - Yahoo! Sports

[hookbill]

I have heard some people in the area say that they wouldn't mind having Barry Bonds on the Indians. However I think the majority of baseball people don't want Bonds because he's not well liked by the fans.

I'm not really a Tribe fan, I'm more of member of the Red Sox Nation when it comes to AL baseball, but if there was a team that he might get accepted at Cleveland may be it, specially with Pronk out. However if I were to go to Jacobs....whoops I meant Progressive Field to watch a game no way could I root for him.