result #119339 - IS THIS A BARRY SAD DAY IN BASEBALL?

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IS THIS A BARRY SAD DAY IN BASEBALL?

[+] serious ballot by Barbara_Baby_Cakes
ACTIVE Nov 15,2007 - Sun Mar 14, 10

Barry Bonds, baseball's home run king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday and could face prison instead of the Hall of Fame for telling a federal grand jury he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.

The indictment, culminating a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes, charged Bonds with four counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. If convicted, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in prison.
Shortly after the indictment was handed up, Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, was ordered released after spending most of the past year in prison for refusing to testify against his longtime friend.

The president is very disappointed to hear this," Bush spokesman Tony Fratto said. "As this case is now in the criminal justice system, we will refrain from any further specific comments about it. But clearly this is a sad day for baseball."

Bush, who once owned the Texas Rangers, called Bonds to congratulate him in August when the Giants' outfielder broke the home run mark. "You've always been a great hitter and you broke a great record," Bush said at the time.

Bonds was charged in the indictment with lying when he said he didn't knowingly take steroids given to him by Anderson. Bonds is also charged with lying that Anderson never injected him with steroids.

"Greg wouldn't do that," Bonds testified in December 2003 when asked if Anderson ever gave him any drugs that needed to be injected. "He knows I'm against that stuff."

Prosecutors promised Bonds they wouldn't charge him with any drug-related counts if he testified truthfully. But according to the indictment, Bonds repeatedly denied taking any steroids or performance-enhancing drugs despite evidence to the contrary.

Asked directly if Anderson supplied him with steroids, Bonds answered: "Not that I know of." Bonds even denied taking steroids when he was shown documents revealing a positive steroids test for a player named Barry B.

Bonds has long been shadowed by allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs. The son of former big league star Bobby Bonds, Barry broke into the majors with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1986 as a lithe, base-stealing outfielder.

What are your thoughts regarding the indictment of Barry Bonds?

I'm shocked and appalled by it all!!!!	6
Barry should come clean and be done with it....	5
Was there ever any doubt of his guilt? sheesh!!!	4
Once again, if the Government is after you, there will get you guilty or not!!!!	3
There is no creditable evidence of this man's guilt, the hate need to cease!!!!	0
Let's watch the saga unfold	0

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COMMENTS:
Voted : Let's watch the saga unfold
Here we go again...he was "swollen up" pretty big...

by thesoothsayer on Thu Nov 15, 07 5:48pm [+]

Voted : Barry should come clean and be done with it....
...but that galaxy-sized ego of his just won't let him.

by Truthseeker013 on Thu Nov 15, 07 7:14pm [+]

Voted : Barry should come clean and be done with it....
Why are these people even bothered with? After the first positive result (actually second, because it's normally protocol to test again after the first test shows positive), kick them out and be done with them.

by Guest User from [209.34.16.150] on Thu Nov 15, 07 8:18pm [+]

^ That was me before I saw that I wasn't signed in.

by Grumpy_Person on Thu Nov 15, 07 8:22pm [+]

Guest User, were that the norm, the whisper-stream says that the sport would lose forty to fifty percent of its players in one swoop.

by Truthseeker013 on Fri Nov 16, 07 5:46am [+]

I would vote for multiple choices here. I always though he was guilty, he should come clean, but most importantly I will be very interested to see what new 'evidence' they came up with to push this over the top.

by ThisIsNate on Fri Nov 16, 07 7:38am [+]

Truth,
True. Because if I'm not mistaken, it's not the steroids that are a big deal apparently. It's lying about them. No one says a word until a record is broken and then the question "he must be on steroids" comes up.

It wouldnt surpirse me if 50 percent are on them. If so, get rid of them too, I say. Start testing them as soon as they sign on. Using them is no less than cheating in my opinion.

by Grumpy_Person on Fri Nov 16, 07 9:57am [+]

Voted : Was there ever any doubt of his guilt? sheesh!!!
There is no test for HGH.

But anyway, Barry will be found Guilty. And will do less than a year in jail. More likely a few months and the rest will be probation.
The Feds. don't like to be lied to. When he was on the stand in front of a Grand Jury he thought he was above the law. And bald face lying is not looked upon as a forgive and forget kind of thing with Prosecutors

by UncleRandy on Fri Nov 16, 07 2:27pm [+]

Voted : Was there ever any doubt of his guilt? sheesh!!!

Obviously the proof is there.

by Black_Lava on Sun Nov 25, 07 8:25am [+]

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