Maybe he could be our mascot.

ya know what? i kinda respect him quite a bit for that. it almost borders on sad, but he made his bed and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to get back and at least leave on some better terms. good for him. best of luck. i really hope you get a chance horsey.

I’m wondering if he’s gotten offered to play for any Atlantic League teams. I figured they’d be all over him.

I’ve heard that the pay in the Atlantic League is next to nothing, but it seems like it’d be in Jay’s best interest to be on any field rather than none (and given the O’s are still paying him and since he offers to donate all his minor league earnings, I assume money’s not all that huge a concern for Jay anyway…).

I can’t imagine that he’s so controversial that an independent league team wouldn’t want him.

Play a couple months with the York Revolution so teams can see if he’s healthy, and I’d have to think there’s a good chance he gets a call to be on someones AA or AAA team.

I’d feel bad for him or find this admirable if it wasn’t so pandering. Please! Please to give me a shot!

This is hardly the scene in Cinderella Man where a broken Jim Braddock, hat in hand, pleads his case to feed his children.

Tike Redman was out of baseball too. He played independent ball until someone noticed him.

I have absolutely no opinion on this.

Go wipe your tears with that giant pile of Angelos’s money.

Your career .314 OBP doesn’t deserve another chance. Nor does your mediocre defense, poor baserunning, or whining about being asked to play 1B or DH.

Zero sympathy here.

he didn’t exactly send those letters out to the world. I don’t feel a lot different about him than I did when he was hitting .201 but I hardly see the harm in it. I hope he gets shot somewhere and the team asks him to donate to my favorite charity…the Single-Moms Charity…these charities are easy to identify with their neon and black lights and stainless steel poles.

I hope nobody signs him.

While collecting a huge major league contract that he doesn’t even have to play for. That’s really big of him to man up like that.

Here is a comment from someone on the ESPN actual article:

“You cheat, you lose? Don’t use steroids and you’d still have a job? You guys obviously do your homework (sarcasm). Explain to me, then, why Brian Roberts, Andy Pettitte, Miguel Tejada and Jason Giambi still in the game?

I feel bad for Gibbons, really. He was servicable when he was healthy, but he was injured so often, I’m sure teams don’t want to even bother. It really is too bad, because, by all accounts, he’s a good guy. “

Yeah because Miggy, Brian, and Giambi have proven that they can’t play without the steroids, right?

Ok, Gibbons is a good guy or whatever and yeah it’s a little sad.

But don’t you think there’s a REAL good chance that he REJECTED a minor league assignment from the Orioles? We’d have to pay him anyway, so it would have made more sense to throw him in A-ball or something rather than lose him and have to pay him anyway.

Instead, the O’s called his bluff and released him, and now he looks bad because he could have had a job in the first place!

Right?

Gibby to join the Atlantic League

He said he didn’t anticipate the letter would be made public and wanted to “make sure people don’t think I am looking for pity. I have lived a blessed life and still am. I am just looking for another opportunity to continue my career.”

“I think I had a horrible year last year. I batted .230. I probably deserved to get released.”

I don’t think he’s a bad person. But I think he’s a bad baseball player.

I mean, you’d tune in, right?