The MLB Players Union is looking into the possibility that all thirty baseball teams have colluded to ignore Barry Bonds. The all time home run king is not retired, yet only two weeks from opening day, he can't find work.

Major League Baseball is far too competitive for there to be collusion, and too disingenuous to be so moral. Other steroids users like Eric Gagne, Gary Bennett, and Howie Clark, players who are now average at best, have no trouble finding work. Bonds' circumstance is a little different.

If you sign Bonds, you get 25-30 home runs and the best on-base percentage in the sport. However, he's 44 years old and is best suited to play in the American League. Of those AL teams, find one that's going to give him the $15-20 million he's demanding. Then ask if you can tolerate the media that's going to follow him and the man himself. Then throw in the possibility that the $15-20 million you spend on him could go down the drain if he's convicted of these perjury charges, and that he's a noted steroids user.

Again, the killer is the money he's asking for. Julio Franco can play at age 49 because he's working for peanuts, but no one is going to throw Bonds a bone on that salary. We may eventually see him if an American League team gets really desperate, but the odds are stacked against him.