Barry Bonds and his massive head have been indicted by a grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice and could face 30 years in prison for being a fatheaded, holier-than-thou liar. I don’t think I could have handled another season of watching Bonds go from ballpark to ballpark, lying to reporters, lying to his fans and lying to Major League Baseball. And Bonds thought that he could lie his way through testimony to a federal grand jury in California when he claimed under oath that he never knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs. The only downside to Bonds’ indictment is that it didn’t happen before last August, when he broke Hank Aaron’s legendary career home run record. While I know in America we are supposed to presume innocence before a defendant is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, in the case of Barry Bonds, I never ever presumed him anything but a liar who thought he was smarter than everyone else. You don’t need to be a piss test to know that Bonds abused performance-enhancing drugs. Let’s ignore the fact that according to the San Francisco Giants equipment manager and published in the book “Game of Shadows,” his jersey went from a size 42 to 52 and his shoe sized jumped from a 10 1/2 to a 13 since joining the San Francisco Giants in 1993. Let’s ignore the fact that his trainer Greg Anderson, who has been suspected to have fed Bonds a steady diet of designer steroids since 1998, has sat in jail for over a year for refusing to testify against Bonds. Let’s ignore the fact that in 2001, when Bonds broke the single-season home run record, his total of 73 exceeded his previous or future high by 24 home runs. Let’s ignore the fact that he won his first batting title at 38, broke the single-season records for home run, slugging percentage, walks and intentional walk all over the age of 37 and has more home runs since turning 40 than any other player in the history of the game (74). You can even ignore the fact that his personal trainer plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids and sentenced to jail time. With all of that ignored, all you have to do is look at the size of Barry Bonds’ head. Seriously. All you need is a pair of eyes to know that a head so large doesn’t come from eating veggies and working out. It’s remarkable that it took prosecutors 4 years to find enough evidence to indict Bonds. I hope this is the last chapter of the Barry Bonds story. It’s not that he singlehandedly cheapened baseball’s record books, because surely it wasn’t only Bonds on the juice. And it’s not that he’s a cheater. I hope Barry Bonds goes away forever (after he goes to prison) because he’s such a horrible person. He’s one of these liars who lies and lies and lies and when he gets caught, instead of doing what some players did, like Jason Giambi, and admitting to steroid use and moving on with his life, Bonds just continues to lie. While his head might be the size of a watermelon, Barry Bonds is, and always has been, a big baby. And like a baby, he belongs in a confined space protected by bars.
•AP: Bonds Indicted
I’m not sure the fact that he increased his previous record homer total by 24 says much about his drug use. Everybody was hitting tons of homers those years, and I think that had more to do with the baseballs than the roids.
The biggest help roids have been to Bonds is keeping him healthy enough to actually accumulate those stats. Just like McGwire, who was injured, missing games all the time until his head and arms grew fourteen sizes. Just as many pitchers were on roids as batters, but it’s just not as obvious with them.
Sadly, he was a hall-of-famer before he started using. Just arrogant enough to believe he’s above the rules everyone else plays by. Hopefully he can at least spend some time behind bars and maybe write a children’s book.
Its amazing that all of you just concentrated on Bonds and somehow again let all of the white athletes go easy. You have put enough vitrole in the news about your feelings about bonds but nowhere do i read where you all call any of the others liers, and other nasty remarks..It is almost as if you make it easy for people to say this is racebaiting at its best..Lets get theblack guy he is an easy target. I don’t condone any of the allegations if they are true, but put more oped pieces in there about McGuire and the rest, not mention him is passing in a lets screw Bonds piece.
First of all J Mackey, while this website is filled with humorous anecdotes about life in America and abroad, it is first and foremost a NEWS blog/website. The owner of the most hallowed record in *American* sports being indicted on federal perjury charges certainly qualifies as news.
Unfortunately, a journeyman relief pitcher like Jason Grimsely, who happens to be white, who was busted for allegedly distributing HGH is not quite newsworthy enough for a website based in a country where even the most regular of readers wouldn’t know Jason Grimsley from Jason Voorhees.
The black guy was certainly the easy target here, except he was targeted because he’s shattered records with that smug grin all the while knowing he’s a cheat and a liar, not because he is black. The last time I checked, Bonds is the only person to be criminally charged with any crime in connection with MLB’s steroid scandal.
Finally, if you look here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_
players_suspended_for_steroids#Major_League_Players_Suspended
I’d be willing to bet simply by looking at the names that the only white people on the list of 20 are Grimsley, Mike Morse and Ryan Franklin. So a league that is 60 percent white has 15 percent of its steroid suspensions.
But those are just facts, I mean who cares about those when you can just make absurd claims about inherent racism and latent bias.