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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I wasn’t running down your enjoyment of home run derby. I just get far more excited watching a 1-0 pitcher’s duel. I like to watch teams make runs; get on, move up, bat’em in. Even as players get faster and stronger, 90 feet between bases, and 60’6” to home have created a unique and exciting game. And besides, I was a pitcher...
<< He was, for good reason having nothing to do with steroids, the best hitter the game has ever seen. >>
Best hitter the game has ever seen?
That’s pretty funny. Perhaps not to people like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Albert Pujols...
...you know, guys like that...
...you know, guys like that who DIDN’T do steroids???
T’wasn’t the pointy end of a bat or a little clear or creme that sealed Barry’s fate, it was the denial...
Me, too. I love a great pitchers duel. I wanted to be a pitcher growing up, but I sucked at it. I could throw hard, but NO control. Wild Thing.
Of all the sports, I was best at basketball, decent at football, and marginal at baseball.
I’ve really enjoyed watching the Anaheim Angels these past few years. They specialize in small-ball (Scioscia-ball), manufacturing runs, pressing it on the bases. It’s fun to watch.
This San Francisco jury has the logic of a Bronx Jury. Hung on perjury but the basis of the Obstruction charge was lying.
The steroid users' records and bats and jerseys and photos are all in Cooperstown, but only their bronze busts aren't.
Baseball will eventually slouch on this, I think. Call me a cynic.
“Barry Bonds found guilty of obstruction”
That’s ray-cess!
Well Rose is still banned. I suppose eventually they’ll get a comish that doesn’t care about what Rose did, but he’ll probably be dead by then. Steroid era forgiveness will probably happen in 15 to 20 years tops.
Like what?
One of the first games I remember seeing in person was Gibson v. Drysdale in LA in 1965. It was EPIC. Drysdale got the better of Gibson, 2-0. BUT, both pitchers went the distance, which of course never happens anymore. Gibson's power was something to behold in person.
From that day on, I was a pitching duel fan. Nothin' like it.
Totally agree. Relief pitching really took something out of baseball.
There was something awesome about seeing a pitcher go out and win or lose his own game.
Go ahead, act stupid, back peddle, whatever. You know exactly what I mean.
Oh, right, the classic non-answer.
I was just interested to know what you think my not giving a crap if an athlete put a non-banned substance into his own body says about me, but I guess you can’t explain it.
I’d say again, go ahead, act stupid ... but for you it’s not an act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabolic_steroids#United_States
Bob Gibson's 1.12 ERA for the 1968 season was responsible for MLB lowering the height of the pitcher's mound. Wasn't that the case? Can you name any other individual player responsible for a professional sport changing a major rule?
He was dominant in his prime like no pitcher I've seen.
I wish I could remember the details, but I love the story of the manager coming out to see Gibson and Gibson glaring at him with gritted teeth and saying "Get. Off. My. Mound."
The manager got off Gibson's mound.
Sorry, just remembering great baseball moments from my childhood.
Bonds? Great hitter. In the top fifteen all-time in baseball? Possibly. In the Top 200 clutch post-season hitters of all-time. Not a chance.
Deserving of the Hall of Fame? Nope. They guy was a long-term cheater.
Meh. That didn’t get us anywhere. You’re pretty much an ass, too.
But that’s ok. You don’t owe me anything.
Have a nice evening.
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