Well, here we are. Roughly three weeks away from the All-Star break and not a word on Barry Bonds (at least baseball-wise). His trial is set for March 2 of next year, he's in shape, he wants to play, but no one wants him.

According to Barry's agent, Jeff Borris, when asked about Bonds playing in an independent league: "He has nothing to prove there. He doesn't need to go to an independent team and hit two home runs a night hoping to get attention to prove that he still has the skills that would warrant him playing at the major league level. His performance in 2007 demonstrates that he's capable of playing at the major league level for the 2008 season."

Instead of discussing the insanity of the idea of Bonds playing in the "beer-league", I'd like to do a little arithmetic for you.

In case you didn't know, Bonds led the majors in two very valuable offensive categories last season, walks and on-base percentage. In fact, his on-base percentage was .480, which means he got on base in 48% of his plate appearances. Any decent general manager would be salivating over that number.

Anyway, let's assume Barry Bonds played on the Yankees last season. Leading the majors in batting average and runs scored, the Yankees were the most dominating offensive force in baseball last season. Now for some math.

Alex Rodriguez (AL MVP and major league leader in home runs and RBI last year) drove in 156 runs, in which 98 of those were achieved with runners in scoring position. Translation: 63% of A-Rod's RBI (the majority) were earned with RISP.

A-Rod also hit 36 of his 54 home runs with men on base. Translation: 67% of his homers (the majority) were hit with men on base. Here's where it gets interesting.

Johnny Damon, Derek Jeter, and Bobby Abreu batted in front of A-Rod, in which the cumulative OBP for the three of them was .370. This is assuming, of course, that in every game the first four batters were Damon, Jeter, Abreu, and Rodriguez (in that order).

Johnny Damon had the lowest OBP of the three, so let's get rid of him and plug Barry Bonds into that batting order. So now we have Jeter, Abreu, Bonds, and Rodriguez. Now the cumulative OBP of the three rises to .404. This is assuming that the imaginary lineup of those three was in use for all 162 games.

Translation: if Bonds were a Yankee last year, 40% of the time the bases were loaded for A-Rod.

Of course, all that math isn't a guarantee for a World Series, but it sure as hell guarantees that any productive offensive team would benefit tremendously by having Bonds in the lineup.

Aside from the stats and the idea of Barry playing in an independent league, Jeff Borris also said Barry would play for free, donating whatever money he makes to buy tickets for children...and still nobody wants him.

Amazingly, Bonds has been offered to all 30 major league teams for a prorated share of the $390,000 league minimum...and still nobody wants him. Is this really happening?

If this isn't proof of collusion then I don't know what is. To all major league owners and general mangers: forget your infantile delusions of alienating fans by signing Bonds or Bonds attracting a giant media circus that would impede your team's success—we're talking about the greatest player of all-time and still one of the elite hitters in the game playing for only $390,000!

As a bonus, he's going to do good work for the community by purchasing tickets for kids. Come on Major League Baseball, prove that you have nothing against Barry and take him up on his offer.