There's something fishy afoot. A quick googling of "Bonds Players Union" will bring up a thousand articles similar to http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-union-bonds&prov=ap&type=lgns which says that Donald Fehr and the rest of the player's union will investigate the lack of offers to Bonds. Perhaps there's something fishy going on with the owners not wanting to sign Bonds. But that's not what I found confusing.
What strikes me is this: Bonds isn't in the players' union, or rather that he wouldn't agree to their licensing agreement. Even his Wikipedia page can tell you that he withdrew from the union's licensing in order to try to obtain more lucrative licensing deals. Video games, card games, and other such fantasies over the last few years have been forced to create placeholder images of Bonds because the Players Union doesn't have the right to use his image or name.
So why is the Players' Union suddenly sticking up for Bonds, who publicly rejected them? Are they trying to woo him back into their midst? Are they hoping to make a statement to the MLB that they can't treat players with a conspiracy and hope to get away with it? Or am I just a huge idiot and missed Bonds coming crawling back to the union?
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