No I don't. In my opinion, at this point in the season, the negatives outweigh the positives. That is why I wrote that you are entitled to your opinion and I am entitled to mine.
It's my own fault. I should have given up after he thought that "polarizing figure" referred to salary.
For those of you referencing the Cooper quote, here is the entire context of that quote: -------- And a side note on Cecil Cooper's "if he would come, I would go" quote, referring to the possibility of the Astros signing Bonds, that ended up in a wire report. I feel somewhat responsible for that because I started the line of questioning. Here's what happened: We were in Cooper's office, talking about Bonds, and Cooper gave the standard "I don't think we would be interested" line. I said, "If you sign him, you'll have 75 reporters in the clubhouse at all times and Barry won't talk to the media, so the other players are going to carry the burden. It'll be a zoo." Cooper thought about that, chuckled, and said something along the lines of, "Oh boy, I don't want to deal with that. Tell you what -- if he comes, I go. How about that?" He said it in jest. He wasn't threatening to quit if Bonds were to come to the Astros. It was an off-the-cuff throwaway quote that meant nothing. Except it meant something to a local wire reporter who doesn't know Cooper, doesn't know the team and literally walked into Cooper's office for no more than seven minutes during his pregame meeting with the media and walked out before it was over. You'll notice the local beat writers, myself and Brian McTaggart, didn't use that quote. That's because to print it would be to take it completely out of context. Which it was. -------------- http://houston.astros.mlb.com/news/...t_id=3292332&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou
They'd have to offer arbitration and he might accept then they would have two guys who can't play left field.
