Posted on 05/07/2005 9:30:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball is looking into Barry Bonds' relationships and activities, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
Citing anonymous baseball sources, the newspaper reported in its Sunday editions that baseball security officials believe Bonds might be at risk of conviction over allegations of tax fraud.
The San Francisco Giants outfielder, who has been at the center of baseball's steroid's scandal, has yet to play this season as he recovers from knee surgeries.
The most recent Bonds controversy involves him using his own doctors and trainers to treat his injured right knee. The 40-year-old slugger has had three surgeries on the knee since Jan. 31, the last coming Monday as doctors tried to clean out an infection.
Bonds' surgeon, Dr. Albert Ting, has been reprimanded twice by the California state medical board and is on probation for "unprofessional conduct," according to The Arizona Republic.
The Daily News reported baseball was not happy to hear that another associate of Bonds has had trouble with the law.
Baseball first became concerned about Bonds when law enforcement agents raided the home of his personal trainer and longtime friend Greg Anderson in September 2003 as part of the investigation of an alleged steroids distribution ring involving BALCO founder Victor Conte.
Bonds gave grand jury testimony in the case, and according to reports in The San Francisco Chronicle, said he used a clear substance and a cream given to him by Anderson, who was indicted in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative case. Bonds said he didn't know if they were steroids.
The Daily News reported that MLB officials aren't sure where their investigation will lead or what action they would take if they find Bonds has violated baseball's rules.
Bonds has 703 career home runs, 11 behind Babe Ruth and 52 from tying Hank Aaron's career record.
The good news is that they are safe.
Stick a fork in Bonds.
According to reports last week, "Dr. Ting prescribed controlled substances to friends and acquaintances, particularly athletes, for whom he kept no medical records or for whom the medical records were fictitious, inadequate or inaccurate."
"He's a common criminal who's getting what he deserves. He's finished, washed up, deserves to be, period.
--Howard Cosell, speaking about Mike Tyson.
Cosell would say the same thing today about Bonds were he alive.
Dusty Baker knew when to move on.. ;-)
>>Barry Bonds* 703 Home runs.<<
Barry Bonds puts the ass in asterisk.
This will just give him a excuse to say whitey kept me down or I would have broke all the HR records.
Yeah, he moved on to become the mediocre manager of the mediocre Chicago Cubs... and it's unbearable for this Cubs fan.
Bonds has come off the juice, his body is breaking down, and now the entire house of cards is beginning to fall around him.
I find myself wondering at times if these multiple surgeries and this injury are even real. I have no doubt he had Surgery in january, but it started getting strange when the team stated it would no longer make any comment on bonds condidtion or his rehab, and that the only news would be what bonds releases on his website.
Hahahah, that is so true! I was just thinking that while I was scrolling down.
Looking at the big picture, I will predict the following. Barry will be hauled into court by the end of this year for tax issues. It will turn into a long delayed fight...which Barry will lose and likely spend four months in some jail. Baseball will examine the big Barry picture and eventually come to the conclusion that Barry is finished in the major leagues period...no return in 2006. The remaining question will be the induction into the hall of fame.
I have great issues now with Barry going into the hall...if you deny Pete Rose entry...then Barry meets the same qualifications and doesn't get to enter. The same will go for Big Mac, Sosa and a number of other steriod users. Its up to the baseball writers group who controls entry...but my guess is that he won't make on the first try, nor the second. It will be a quiet message to Barry that he really did screw up.
And this is a racial issue because . . .?
Bonds albatross however has always been his Ego, he has always had the "nobody like me" chip on his shoulder. As a result, when he saw his skills starting to erode as he hit his mid-thirties, his demons started whispering "They don't like you, they will find a reason to keep you out of the hall".
He saw what Big Mac was doing and the adulation being pouredout on him, and Barry just had to have some of tthat mojo. So he Juiced, and he got bigger and better. Then it became a case of success feeding the beast. he started to see Ruth and Aaron, and the Ego screamed go for it.
Amen! I can only hope that they will have some standards, but at the same time I am pretty skeptical.
Why is everyone after Bonds NOW, but were wildly applauding just a few seasons ago? Same goes for McGwire. Talk about blatantly obvious, though McGwire at least didn't have a past of being skinny like Bonds..
I agree,,I remember his Pirates days, he was a hall of famer for them.
SF thought they had it whipped when they signed him. Surprise what fate had in store.
There aren't many father son combos in the Hall fo fame. This one will likely fall by the wayside. Too bad.
Right. Now that the Bulls are finished, and the Bears won't start for 3-1/2 months, we have that long to endure only the Cubs. Have mercy.
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