00:00the Yankees are better off
00:02that they didn't sign Barry Bonds.
00:05They're better off.
00:07They went on to win a million championships.
00:09They had a dynasty.
00:11They were very team-oriented.
00:12Barry Bonds struggled in October.
00:14He never won a championship.
00:17Who knows how he would have fit in
00:19with that locker room,
00:20especially if he was given
00:21the richest contract in all the sports.
00:23That was a young team,
00:25a team that had a young nucleus,
00:28team-oriented,
00:30was clutch.
00:31Barry Bonds is the greatest baseball player
00:32I've ever seen.
00:33And he would have put up monster numbers
00:35with the Yankees.
00:36But no shot they would have been better off.
00:38They might have been worse off.
00:42So the Yankees, in a way,
00:43benefited from George
00:46setting this deadline.
00:49So it kind of worked the opposite effect.
00:51Because on an initial look at it,
00:53it's like, well, you cost the Yankees Barry Bonds,
00:55but the Yankees made out better
00:57without Barry Bonds.
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