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According to the Associated Press, Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday on perjury and obstruction of justice charges, due to a four-year federal investigation into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury looking into steroid use by elite athletes.
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dude who are you the grammar police?
I should point out to you – the correct spelling is Love…not Luv…..so take that
LOL! This coming from the Chosen One!
You bet your butt, slap nuts. Now go back to drawing cold fronts for Sam Champion.
I’d still rather sign Bonds over Torre-BAD-a
Torre-ALL-BAD-a has a nicer ring to it :)
I am sure torrealba won’t be so bad anyway.
Torre-all-bad…. I love it! Let’s hope he doesn’t stink it up, but wow…. what a great chant to start if he does…
Here’s another fun one to get started in your section of the stands… for Duaner Sanchez… start the Dirty Sanchez chants. His stuff is “filthy” as they say!
Wow. We all saw this coming, just not today.
Its always perjury and obstruction of justice, first Martha Stewart, then Scooter Libby now Barry Bonds.
Will a perjury conviction be enough to be disciplined by MLB and to what extent. Do we get the asterisk or for that matter expunging of his records.
That’s got SNL sketch written all over it…
I guess this drops his market value.
let’s give him one year @ $4mil and roll the dice.
Finally, Bonds gets the trouble he deserves. Now, if we can just get an * by his home run record….
everyone shouldnt be so happy..this is a sad day for baseball, it only hurts the game
The game will endure.
I’m surprised it took this long
I am personally all torn up about this. Sniff sniff…..
He should say he thought he was committing perjury and obstruction of justice about SEX, not steroids- then apparently he will be a hero and will be elected president.
or maybe lie about his military record and become president!
Get off the asterisk already, never was one, never will be. (Not that I am pro-Bonds, but am pro-MLB history).
He cheated, so did a few guys who play for “our” team. If you ask me, and I know you wont, if I have to pay all the $ to see them in person, or pay $ to see them on TV, let them juice. Like I care what the players do to their bodies anyways. I want PRODUCT dammit! Give me the best product, not the cleanest. I’m not related to any of them so why should I protest? Most MLB players will make more in a month, then I will ever have the opportunity to in my lifetime. And I do honest work, not a hobby.
As for Bonds himself. Good, hope this will finally end his pursuit of a MLB job. His head is too big for most caps anyways…
HA!
Maybe he can bunk up with Mike Vick
See you in the yard toughbag
now the trainer is released from prison…oh man this is unreal.
Boras must be seething now that he’s not the headline.
I have to disagree. It is a game integrity issue. It is a chemical advantage that not all of the players have. As to Mets who have used, I believe they should be punished as well. I was not sad to see Mota suspended. I thought it was justifiable and fair action by MLB.
My problem with Bond’s most of all is his denial, and that he had the nerve to blame the press for not leaving his family alone. HE was the one who brought the issue to his family by using illegal substances.
I suppose there are a lot of records held by cheaters. How many spit ballers are in the hall of fame? I just do not think we should take this record, perhaps the biggest in baseball for granted without the hall of fame acknowledging that the record was broken through cheating.
Anyway, I am sad for baseball but happy that Bonds has to face up to his lies.
It’s like I tell the kids. Doing something bad gets you in trouble. Trying to lie your way out of it gets you into way more trouble.
Bet Selig wishes this happened a year earlier so he could have suspended him before he broke the record!
Looks like alot of people owe Mark Ecko an apology. Haha, I can’t believe so many people sided with Barroid for so long.
No one owes Mark Ecko, who essentially paid for a large It’s a way of life in professional sports. advertisement for himself an apology. Few people believed Barry Bonds wasn’t juicing. The fact is, people like myself are appalled by the amount of seething hatred and scapegoating on someone who did nothing reprehensible to you or anyone you know. Frankly, first negative thing Barry Bonds has ever done to me is get indicted. Now my tax dollars will have to go to wasting time putting him in jail rather than figuring out issues that are really wrong in this country.
Here’s a newsflash, players cheat. Players juice. I love Jose Reyes and David Wright but wouldn’t shock me if it came out tomorrow that they were on something. We live in a culture where “if you aren’t cheating, you aren’t trying hard enough” ismore than just an expression. Millions of dollars are on the line here. Athletes look for any advantage they can get and a lot of them turn to PEDs.
Barry Bonds doesn’t deserve an asterisk because he hit his home runs off juiced pitchers. He was no doubt robbed of hits by juiced fielders. Heck his record tying home run came off a pitcher who had ALREADY been busted for steroid use in the past.
So it comes down to this; if you are celebrating that Bonds has been indicted because you hate him so much, why are you even following sports? He’s done about as much to hurt the game as many of the guys you are cheering, even if you don’t know it yet. Like I said, I love the Mets and support the players, but if you think Guillermo Mota and Scott Schoeneweis are the only juicers on this team, you a pretty naive.
frammit. typo. Should not say “It’s a way of life in sports”. where it does. It should say it after the many athletes turn to PEDs sentence.
I hope he rots in jail. His records should not have an asterisk, they should be mentioned in parenthesis below the other records. When he said that he wouldn’t go to the Hall if his 756 ball got an asterisk I said, “Good, you don’t deserve to go there.” Shoeless Joe and Buck Weaver are rightfully out of the Hall, and they look like saints compared to this sleaze. It’s sad that baseball has to go through this, but it’ll recover.