Bonds era ending in San Francisco

[Alex]

But conversely, the only reason Bonds was playing regularly the last three seasons for the Giants was because of his home run chase. Bonds milked the team for a few metric ****loads of cash for doing them the privielege so he can't hardly be upset that now that the chase is over they're ready to move on.

Keeping Bonds as the centerpoint of that team pretty much consigned them to mediocrity and not being able to seriously try to move on. 25 home runs and 60 RBI over 120 games can certainly be had for many millions cheaper than Bonds would cost and be more than a year-by-year rental.

He still a phenomenal player for 43, but all of his stats are at least 40% off of his career averages, the're only going to continue degrading, and he's increasingly likely to suffer a career ending injury or just one day decide he's just too tired to do it any more.

Being a great 43 year old is about the same as being a pretty good 26 year old in terms of production with a lot less upside down the road.

So rather than being upset that he is being shown the door he should be happy he had something that kept him from getting the standard rent-a-player treatment of other other over-40 hitters of having to switch teams every season to find that out-of-contention team looking for some "experience" in the dugout to impart wisdom to the young whippersnappers.