Thursday, June 12, 2008
Where do you go if even the Orioles do not want you?
Former Baltimore Orioles outfielder and human growth hormone (HGH) junkie Jay Gibbons has finally found a place in professional baseball. Too bad for Gibbons it’s with a team in the independent Atlantic League.
Evidently he sent a letter to 29 Major League Baseball teams asking for chance to play. No team was interested.
It’s not like he needs the money. Even though the O’s released him last year after he admitted to using HGH, they are still paying him. He is being paid a guaranteed $11.9 million by the Orioles until the end of the 2009 MLB season.
Far be it from me to ever criticize anything the Oriole front office do, but I wouldn’t have released him. I would have kept him around. They have to pay him no matter what. I would have made him sell beer or cotton candy at Camden Yards. I’m sure the MLBPA would have had something to say about it, but I would have at least tried.
I would never fire someone I had to still pay.
Gibbons to join Atlantic League [Baltimore Sun]
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