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 same guys editing his pieces at the Dot Com that I do editing my work here at TBL.

Beyond leaving out words, Buster makes a great point. (Probably. I’d have to read the entire entry.)

Of course the Mets should sign Barry Bonds! The one thing they’ve been sorely lacking over the last few years was a big contract bat contract in the middle of the lineup. What’s another 10-15 million this year?

As it stands with the Santana signing, the Mets payroll is set to check in somewhere around $155 million. If they sign Bonds they could push past the Red Sox for the second highest payroll in baseball.

Update:

Thanks to an alert reader wide-awake commenter cortes, who has Insider, I was able to peep the rest of the post. It’s basically a case that Bonds will show up and hit the ball well wherever there is someone willing to pay him. And recent history says he will hit the ball well. There were stats and everything. (You guys really should have seen it.)

Here’s a potential lineup featuring Bonds:

SS Reyes
2B Castillo
CF Beltran
LF Bonds
3B Wright
1B Delgado
RF Church
C Schneider

I will conceed that that is a formidable lineup, but as a Marlins fan I am still not that worried.