AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH COLLUSION BARRY BONDS AAAAHHHHHHHHH BARRY BONDS WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE TAKEN THIS DEAL AND THEY SHOULD HAVE GIVEN IT TO HIM

THIS IS THE FINAL STRAW

Hmm, Barry Bonds in the Huntsville lineup. He would have filled in nicely for LaPorta amongst the rest of the crew (Gamel, Escobar, Salome, et. al).

He would have been nice protection for Gamel :P

I guess winning isn't everything after all.

Good for Gibbons.

Put the Brewers down as dark horse for signing Bonds in late Aug.

That's 4 games with the DH in the World Series this year. Wouldn't it be funny if Melvin offered, when asked why he signed Bonds, "Well, because the World Series home field was won by the AL in the All-Star Game, we felt we needed a credible DH bat vs RHP for those 4 games."

I just saw Gibbons at Long Island this weekend. Took an 0-fer.

I seem to remember Bonds being mercilessly booed at Milwaukee last year in his final series there. I'm sure the reaction to Gibbons will be the same, right?

I seem to remember Bonds being mercilessly booed at Milwaukee last year in his final series there. I'm sure the reaction to Gibbons will be the same, right?

Well, except for the fact that no one outside of Baltimore really remembers who Gibbons is, and that he's actually taken the steps to admit and apologize for what he's done (whether or not he's been truthful about it is another question), and that he'll likely be spending the rest of the year in the minors as a fill-in in Huntsville and probably won't ever see Milwaukee, the fan reactions to Bonds and Gibbons should be identical.

I seem to remember Bonds being mercilessly booed at Milwaukee last year in his final series there.

That would likely have happened even if Bonds wasn't a suspected steroid user. People in Milwaukee love Hank Aaron and he made it pretty clear he was none too pleased about having his record broken.

Anyway, I think people would get over it. Most Brewer fans were filled with hate for Julian Tavarez but they signed him anyway and nobody stopped showing up because of it.

People in Milwaukee love Hank Aaron and he made it pretty clear he was none too pleased about having his record broken.

Hank was PISSED!

I know he made the video, but he had plenty of comments leading up to that, and he didn't want to show up to any of the games. If you think he was pleased, fine, but the impression I got was that he wanted to stay the home run king.

I know, I agree, Aaron was clearly grumpy about the record, maybe I would be too if I was old. But he did the right thing and accepted it and even congratulated Bonds. People tend to consistently forget that Bonds was not, and is not hated across the board by Americans, certainly not baseball fans.

The best way baseball can get past the steroid era, is let Bonds play and move on. The steroid problem has been blown out of proportion, is being made out to be an unspeakable tragedy, the biggest black eye in American history. It is not.

Bonds played by the rules. Baseball should accept its blame and take Bonds back, millions of baseball fans will love it, those that don't can deal with it just fine.

The video was made after Selig, if not gently twisting Aaron's arm, at least prodded him to do so.

About the booing of Bonds, the prior times he had come through post-steroid allegations, some of the SF reporters even wrote how polite the crowds were towards Bonds, compared to most other cities.

When it became inevitable, THEN it was a different story.

Aaron spent the majority of his career in Milwaukee, and he didn't. It wouldn't have mattered if the pursuer was squeaky-clean John Doe, who spent his off-seasons in the Peace Corps and gave his MLB salary all over to charity.