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BUSTER OLNEY WEBLOG | RSS | PRINT BLOG BASEBALL Buster Olney is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He began covering baseball in 1989, as the Nashville Banner's beat reporter assigned to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. Later, he covered the San Diego Padres (1993-94), the Baltimore Orioles ('95-'96), the New York Mets ('97) and the Yankees ('98-2001). Olney joined ESPN The Magazine in 2003, ...
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Buster Olney Thinks The Mets Should Sign Barry Bonds
The Big Lead —
Now, I don’t have Insider, so I can’t dive very deep into Buster Olney’s reasoning. All I have to go on is a headline and the two teaser paragraphs that ESPN thinks will entice me to shell out money for online content. Shhheeah-right! I grew up with Napster! There’s no way I’m paying for words!
From Olney’s blog:
And thought process is why somebody in the Mets’ organization should raise the one option nobody probably wants to consider but they should discuss as they figure out ways to cope with the devastating wave of injuries — to Moises Alou and Carlos Delgado — that has crippled their fragile lineup. That alternative is Barry Bonds.
Obviously, Buster has ...
The Pefect Storm of Taunting?
The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae —
ESPN's Buster Olney wrote yesterday that he thinks the Mets should consider signing Barry Bonds. If the unlikely scenario ever came to fruition it would most certainly lead to some interesting taunting. It would be awfully fun to watch fans harass Barry Bonds, as a Met, playing in Philadelphia. 9 times in 2008.
Don't drop cash on Bonds
The 'Ropolitans | NY Mets Baseball Blog —
With the injury to Moises Alou opening up a starting position in left field, some (crazy) people have discussed the Mets trying to bring in Barry Bonds. Buster Olney was the first madman to pitch the idea. From Olney: And thought process is why somebody in the Mets' organization should raise the one option nobody probably wants to consider but they should discuss as they figure out ways to cope with the devastating wave of injuries -- to Moises Alou and Carlos Delgado -- that has crippled their fragile lineup. That alternative is Barry Bonds.It's typical baseball, and more specifically Mets, ideology to try and find a veteran to plug the whole. They almost never turn to a younger player to take over, unless they are at the end of their ...
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Olney On Bonds And The Mets
mlbtraderumors.com 3/7/2008 — ESPN's Buster Olney makes a pretty strong case for the Mets signing Barry Bonds . Bonds is a lot like Moises Alou , only a better hitter with more baggage. Jeff Sackmann only saw six teams as possible fits for Bonds; the Alou injury ...
Mets Have No Interest In Bonds —
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
A couple New Yorker-perspectives on the Mets interest in Barry Bonds:
First, The NY Daily News reports that the Mets have "laughed off" the idea, saying, "...a high-ranking Mets official insisted there is no interest
in taking on the monumental baggage - which includes charges of perjury
and obstruction of justice - stemming from the out-of-work home run
king's involvement ...
SF Gate: Jenkins: Only desperation can create a spot for Bonds —
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Manhattan Tower/Happiness Cocktail...Jenkins, Bonds and New York.
General manager Omar Minaya is taking some heat for assembling such a vulnerable, aging roster - and the acquisition of Bonds would only escalate that shortcoming into full-fledged farce. But somebody has to hit. Somebody has to be a threat in the middle of the order. Playing a Westinghouse refrigerator in left field wouldn’t ...
Read: Mets Should Enter Bonds Market —
MetsBlog.com
At his ESPN.com blog, Buster Olney believes it time for the Mets to discuss signing Barry Bonds following the recent wave of injuries.
Olney writes:
“Among all of the alternatives the Mets will discuss, the acquisition of Bonds would be the only way the team would acquire a high-impact hitter without gutting a farm system already depleted by the Johan Santana and Brian Schneider ...
