That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary

SCOTTSDALE AZ–The Giants who hired Barry Bonds for a week as a hitting instructor and as we know he has a record for obstruction of justice and has a dark cloud over his head and yes you can expect a media frenzy when he arrives in camp on March 9th.

The stay is expected to be brief he will depart the Giants training camp on March 17th. Bonds is going to teach a little more paitence and he might have to have some with Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval who just recently lost 40 pounds where everybody thinks Pablo is going to be Ted Williams all of a sudden.

Baseball is a funny sport, look at guys like Tony Gwynn who won eight batting titles in the National League for the Padres. Baseball doesn’t go by your physic, it goes by your endurance and your abilities. Bonds is going to work on guys hitting with the young players and the guys in the line up and that’s fine.

It will be a circus with Bonds returning the media will follow him and ask him about his new job with the Giants as hitting instructor, he might get asked about his chances to get into the Hall of Fame. This is the first step of rehabilitation for Bonds. He wants to rehabilitate his image, the only place in this country where Bonds might get an ovation is at AT&T Park.

Any other park in this country he would get booed out of the buidling, here’s the dangerous thing Bonds is the home run king and yes technically we can add an asterisk there, frankly former home run king Hank Aaron does more as an ambassador for baseball and he’s not the home run king although he’s the legitimate home run king with no scandals.

Bonds you would think is the home run king but would baseball commissioner Bud Selig invite him to throw the first pitch a few years ago at the All-Star game? He never gets invited to any of these games and what that tells you is that MLB doesn’t want anything to do with Bonds and now the Giants have hired him back for spring training and he’s back in uniform.

Probably this is the Giants opening the door, the Giants have not embraced Bonds like they did back in his home run hitting years. This is a big step towards to rehabilitate Bonds, change his image with the public that’s really the whole deal here.

The biggest insult and keep in mind I got to travel with Bonds and the Giants in those years with the team during the time when the Giants were at Candlestick and then AT&T, the Dusty Baker teams and the World Series team of 2002, we know from experience that he’s not going to answer anything about steroids we know that.

It will be interesting to see how he reacts when he will get asked and it might even turn out to be too much again and he might go back into retirement after about a month of this we’ll see.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for Oakland A’s baseball and does News and Commentary each week for Sportstalk radio