Good! Now ban this jagoff from baseball for life, including Cooperstown.
Posted on 04/13/2011 2:51:17 PM PDT by Husker
SAN FRANCISCO -- The jury in the Barry Bonds convicted the seven-time MVP guilty of obstruction of justice, but the defense and prosecution agreed to a mistrial on the other three remaining counts. The judge, after speaking to the jury foreman, said she believes the mistrial is the proper decision given that the jury believes it has reached a crossroads. The jury is being brought back into the courtroom to read the verdict on the one count on which it agreed. The eight women and four men are returning the verdict after four days of deliberations. The jury has worked behind closed doors since rehearing some testimony early Monday. Bonds is charged with three counts of lying to a grand jury in 2003 and one count of obstruction. Prosecutors allege that Bonds lied when he denied knowingly taking steroids and human growth hormone. A third count of making a false statement charges that Bonds lied when he said no one other than his doctor ever injected him with anything. The fourth count is obstruction of justice, which alleges that MLB's all-time home runs leader hindered the grand jury's sports doping investigation by lying. Bonds' case is the culmination of a federal investigation that began in 2002 into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, which distributed performance-enhancing drugs to athletes.
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Barry’s only crime...was going in front of grand jury and making a statement. He should have just kept his mouth shut and no one could have forced anything out of him. He wouldn’t be facing any crime today.
The guy is full of crap and could not be bat boy, without the “juice”.
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What an incredible waste of scarce resources. The cost of jailing him should be billed to the idiots that prosecuted him.
You’re as wrong as those who claimed Bill Clinton was being impeached for “having an affair”. Both were charged with lying to a grand jury. That’s a felony. You can’t do it. If you do it you get prosecuted. End of story.
Bonds was a great player before steroids.
Personally, I enjoyed watching a roided up Bonds dominate the league for those five years.
Agree - Keep him OUT of Cooperstown. Jail time is immaterial....
Do you think Mark McGwire or Roger Clemens will ever get into the Baseball Hall Of Fame?
A lot of people like cheaters. Cheaters are bums compared to players who earned their records like Ted WIlliams. Keep cheering for bums and juicers.
Here’s an idea. Why don’t you try hitting a 95 mph fastball, with or without steroids. When your legs give out from underneath you because you couldn’t even see the ball, let alone get around on one to even foul it off, talk to me about Bonds being nothing without steroids. He was, for good reason having nothing to do with steroids, the best hitter the game has ever seen. He was intentionally walked with the bases loaded, and that says it all. Go Giants!
If I have learned nothing else from television it is this, you have the right to remain silent... exercise that right.
Second thing, get a lawyer let them speak for you.
Do you mean like Monica?
True, on all counts. In fact, it's not a crime to inject yourself with steroids. Steroids are NOT a Schedule III drug, unlike opiates and whatnot.
BUT, Bonds, like most narcissists, thought he could get away with anything. And, what did he want to get away with? Protecting his "legacy". However, in this country, when you swear before God to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, it actually means something. He didn't and now he's going to pay some kind of price.
I should add one caveat about "his only crime". I'm not deeply familiar with his particular case. It's possible that the Feds were also looking at him for real crimes like conspiracy to distribute or money laundering. He may have more culpability than just being a consumer of the 'roids. I don't know.
Bonds was a great player before steroids.
Personally, I enjoyed watching a roided up Bonds dominate the league for those five years.
OK, but that does NOT justify the abuse!
According to the government’s case against Bonds, he started using in 1998. That’s certainly when his body underwent a big change.
By that point, he’d had six seasons of batting 30 or more homeruns, was a five-time Golden glove winner, seven-time Silver Slugger winner,seven-time all-Star, and won the MVP award three times.
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