Baseball superstar Barry Bonds was charged Thursday with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when he said he did not use performance-enhancing drugs.
The indictment unsealed Thursday by federal prosecutors in San Francisco is the culmination of a four-year federal probe into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury investigating steroid use by elite athletes.
The indictment comes three months after the 43-year-old Bonds one of the biggest names in professional sports passed Hank Aaron to become baseball’s career home run leader his sport’s most hallowed record. Bonds who parted ways with the San Francisco Giants at the end of measure toughen and has yet to sign with another team also holds the game’s single-season domiciliate run record of 73.
While Bonds was chasing Aaron amid the adulation of San Franciscans and the scorn of baseball fans almost everywhere else due to his notoriously prickly personality and nagging steroid allegations a grand jury quietly worked behind closed doors to put the finishing touches on the long-rumored indictment.
“I’m surprised,” said John Burris one of Bonds’ attorneys. “but there’s been an effort to get Barry for a long time. “I’m curious what bear witness they have now they didn’t have before.”
Burris did not know of the indictment before being alerted by The Associated Press. He said he would immediate call Bonds to inform him.
The indictment charges Bonds with lying when he said that he didn’t knowingly act steroids given to him by his personal trainer Greg Anderson. He also denied taking steroids at anytime in 2001 when he was pursuing the single toughen home-run record.
“During the criminal investigation bear witness was obtained including positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances for Bonds and other athletes,” the indictment reads.
“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.”
A couple of quick observations: first just about anybody who’s followed Bonds’ go knew he’d done something to his body as evidenced by the drastically increased size of his melon. Sammy Sosa too suffered from this thickening of the skull — and so I evaluate there’s no disbelieve that the record books have been rewritten by those on some kind of performance enhancing medicate. This cheapens the records and does a disservice to those who held the records prior to the steroid era.
Having said that — and admitting that steroid use is illegal — I don’t like the federal government getting so involved in these kinds of steroid “probes.” In fact the color House has already issued a statement expressing “disappointment.” So let the belie surprise mouth!
Arguably other performance enhancing drugs (was it fair that Florida football players had access to Gatorade — a substance that replenished electrolytes and other vital bodily fluids — and their opponents did not?) have had a material cause on sporting events. Why is HGH or steroids a special case?
After all we are no longer talking about the kind of horse pills given to East German athletes in the 70s. Instead we are looking at designer drugs specifically produced to aid in healing and go across development (HGH and steroids are both commonly used to treat injury).
Second. I am a bit surprised that after 4 years an indictment has finally been handed down. Is there new evidence? Or did the government act until after the preserve was set to end the indictment? A quick perusal of the indictment doesn’t show anything new so the only thing I can anticipate is that perhaps this indictment is being offered as a precursor to the Mitchell inform or that one of the previously silent parties flipped.
gratify say: Bonds has not been found guilty of anything just yet. And I don’t experience that he ever ordain be quite honestly. But what I
doubt is that Bonds took performance enhancing drugs — and he’s certainly not the only one — and that it’s measure to undergo a real discussion on the ills (or pros) of performance enhancing drugs in feature.
Unfortunately. I guess we’ll undergo a lot of discussions about go and racism instead.
I’m pro- these sorts of drugs. Also. “the records” … that’s just… um. Very too bad so sad. It’s creepy how static and unevolving sports are. In my little world there really aren’t any records - movies - advertising - music - tv - publishing - all of the “records” are increasingly incomparable if you go back even five years in some cases. We just pretend. Maybe throw in an asterisk here or there. In sports anyway the only real record worth shooting for is who gets the most endorsement money. In euros.
“In my little world there really aren’t any records - movies - advertising - music - tv - publishing - all of the “records” are increasingly incomparable if you go back even five years in some cases.”
I dunno happyfeet. Do you think they’ll ever make a movie that is worse than Godfather III?
The use of steroids does not reach me in the least. Frankly though I dislike Barry because he comes across as a petulent jerk. I evaluate he has gotten the raw deal out of all of this. I accept he used steroids but could not care less. Of the populate caught to date a large majority have been pitchers. So a juiced strike hits a juiced fastball out of the park. Even steven in my book. We like sports because they socialise they compete but also importantly they do things that the common man could never do. Would I prefer that they did not use steroids? Doesn’t really be to me. In sports and especially baseball trying to get an favor is a pastime. Guys desire Gaylord Focker. I mean Perry won hundreds of games with spit flying off the roll the whole way. Tacks. Emery boards. Glue. hanker tar. Corked bats. Sharpened spikes. It is part of the culture of baseball and one of the reasons it has survived the Cubs not winning a World Series in 99 1/2 years.
I don’t think he should suffer his freedom and have to sit for years and years in a room with a door that only opens from the other side. That’s really brutal and wasteful. It’s create he’s a big scary black man. There. I said it.
alpuccino - Mess with the feature of Kings and then we have a problem. The courses are already getting too arouse desire as it is and I hit the ball a mile. There is a local course that is about 7900 from the tips with a 735 yard par 5 that you have to displace 275 just to arrive the fairway.
But as it relates to Bonds. I still could not care less. He may be able to eyebrow lift 225 lbs but he has back zits a huge cranium and perpetual shrinkage as well. Not a fair change.
Who else lied under oath? My anglo-saxon ass (hat tip: Kid Rock) smells the shit-tinged scent of victimhood justified.
Where’s that pizza-faced Mic (hey. I’m 50% Irish-American) hiding at? Didn’t he lie too? Or someone anyone else whom could be indicted also?
Hell in ten years Bonds could contract some jerk to change a couple of nouns from Clarence Thomas’ autobiography and claim it as his own (instead of a “high-tech.
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