I’m loving the new MLB Network.

I won’t watch a ton of Spring Training baseball, nor will I sit on the edge of my seat sweating the results of the World Baseball Classic.

But it’s nice to be able to have a game or some of the network’s alternate programming on in the background. I also like it for the news scrolls across the bottom of the page. One of the items indicated that Barry Bonds has given his agent, Jeff Borris, permission to shop his services to each of Major League Baseball’s 30 teams.

Bonds hit 28 home runs in 2007 for San Francisco when he, cough, cough, broke Hank Aaron’s All-Time Homerun record. But he sat out last season as teams shied away from the spectacle surrounding allegations of his steroid use and other legal issues.

An appeal has freed Bonds from a perjury trial until at least July and possibly for as much as 19 months, according to media reports.

Is anyone interested? Will news of A-Rod’s positive 2003 steroid test and the accompanying front-page headlines have pushed Bonds far enough toward the back page that a team might find it worthwhile to give him a shot?

Hard to say. But despite getting permission to shop his client, Borris doesn’t sound optimistic that Bonds will get to extend his home run total beyond 762.

“Major League Baseball was successful in conspiring in keeping Barry out of uniform in 2008,” he told the USA Today. “Unless they have a change of heart or see an error in their ways, I seriously doubt that clubs will give him the opportunity to play this year.”