After a few weeks of a layoff, I'm back with some Thursday Thoughts. There's been a few interesting tidbits to come out of Major League baseball over the last few days. Those topics include Arod, Torrealba, and our good friend Mr. Barry Bonds.

Torrealba:

First, the Mets have come to an agreement with Yorvit Torrealba, formerly of the Colorado Rockies, on a 3 year 15 million dollar deal. Being a Paul Lo Duca supporter, it hurts me to see the Mets not re-sign him. He was a vocal leader on this Mets club. It’s a shame the Mets didn’t want to bring him back but they had to do what they felt was necessary.

Torrealba is about equal in the amount of production that Paul Lo Duca would have brought to the table. Last year he hit .250 with 8 homeruns and 47 rbis. What does scare me though, is that he played in a career best 113 games last year, when normal catchers usually play 130-140 games. However, Ramon Castro has just signed a contract so that he and Torrealba will work as a platoon at the catcher position. I think the platoon will work out great, but I will still miss Lo Duca.

Arod:

Why the hell did he opt out? Jeez. I really thought he was going to leave the Yankees, but apparently they are going to work out a monster contract. Here is to more drama from him and hearing how he and Jeter don’t have sleepovers and whining about how he can’t hit in October.

Mr Barry Bonds

Finally indicted. Its about time. That guy has to be challenged on all his homeruns over the past 10 years. I really hope he goes into the hall of fame with that asterisk. It’s a shame what he’s done to baseball. I am not going to comment more, because I think we are all sick of talking about him.

Til next time..