Coop can say those things because he knows 99% of people in baseball don’t like Bonds. He’s merely echoing what is already being said and thought by the great majority of baseball people.

dont let the door hit you in the ass.

I’m ambivalent on coop as far as his performance this year. not advocating he be fired or anything. but to say something like this is kinda dumb.

sounds like he wasn’t really serious

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080811&content_id=3292332&vkey=news_hou&fext=.jsp&c_id=hou&partnerId=rss_hou

And a side note on Cecil Cooper’s “if he would come, I would go” quote, referring to the possibility of the Astros signing Bonds, that ended up in a wire report. I feel somewhat responsible for that because I started the line of questioning. Here’s what happened: We were in Cooper’s office, talking about Bonds, and Cooper gave the standard “I don’t think we would be interested” line. I said, “If you sign him, you’ll have 75 reporters in the clubhouse at all times and Barry won’t talk to the media, so the other players are going to carry the burden. It’ll be a zoo.” Cooper thought about that, chuckled, and said something along the lines of, “Oh boy, I don’t want to deal with that. Tell you what—if he comes, I go. How about that?”

He said it in jest. He wasn’t threatening to quit if Bonds were to come to the Astros. It was an off-the-cuff throwaway quote that meant nothing. Except it meant something to a local wire reporter who doesn’t know Cooper, doesn’t know the team and literally walked into Cooper’s office for no more than seven minutes during his pregame meeting with the media and walked out before it was over.

He could have done the due diligence before running with it.

He ain’t comin’.

It doesn’t matter what you think; it doesn’t matter how I feel; it is of no impact what Berkman sees as “cool”; nobody is paying attention to what Cooper might or might not do; Drayton’s opinion is worth zilch. This call, if it’s made at all, will be made by Bud Selig.

And because of that, I say Barry ain’t comin’!