Bonds indicted for perjury and obstruction

[MarquesJohnson2000]

I heard that WSCR in Chicago is reporting that Bonds has been indicted.. see below for some links.

[MarquesJohnson2000]

I switched over to SCR and they're talking about Kanye West's mother right now.

[craigharmann]

Wow. If he did lie and obstruct justice, he needs to be penalized. Does this make his contract situation for next year REALLY up in the air?

[giffted1]

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7452044

[don1481]

Front page of msnbc.com: Breaking news - Perjury and Obstruction.

[Badger OKC]

The Drudge Report has its siren on for breaking news on this, but there isn't any blurb on what the exact details are.

[Invader3K]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8SUCA3G0&show_article=1

 

Found off Drudgereport.com

[TooLiveBrew]

Let the games begin, huh?

[Brian the Automator]

"Bonds began the season in the uniform of the California Penal League..."

[Invader3K]

Too bad this is a year too late, though.

[MelGroceryStocker]

I disagree, it is not too late. I would rather have the record taken away than have it never be broken. Had he been indicted last season, we would have sit through an eternity of "Barry the victim," the "white man stole the black man's moment," and a host of other nonsense theories ... this is exactly the way I wanted this to happen, other than Bonds tearing his ACL after 754.

[billyhallfan]

"Bonds began the season in the uniform of the California Penal League..."

 

I honestly just got done watching major league, and sportscenter was on, and I saw it...

[iluvlamp]

I am quite happy about this development. In the indictment they have witnesses and pretty bad testimony by BB. I just hope the courts and baseball don't stop with this freak of nature. Get them all.

[PlayerHader]

How do you figure that this news will cause MLB to strip him of the record. It is his for good. Or until A-Rod or Pujols pass him.

[billyhallfan]

well it sure is a shame, he will never be remembered for the great player that he was. He will only ever be remembered for this, he was a great player with or with out the steroids and would have been in the hall if he never took them. this is a shame indeed,

 

thanks for the memories barry.

[MelGroceryStocker]

If he is convicted, the law will have spoken, and it will say that he knowingly took performance enhancers in his chase of the HR record ... his HOF bid will be dead, and his record will deleted.

 

The record is not his if he's convicted. There's no way.

[billyhallfan]

The record is not his if he's convicted. There's no way.

 

but if you do that, then you have to take Neifi Perez's name and all statistics out of baseball too, you can't just go after one guy because he was better than everyone else?

[MelGroceryStocker]

You might be right, but it won't be that way ... Barry will be made an example. If he is convicted, there's no way his records will stand. I just can't see it happening.

[PeaveyFury]

After Vick was indicted, there was a stat out there that Grand Jury Indictments have a 99.9% conviction rate, so you have to figure that they pretty much have him at this point.

[MelGroceryStocker]

Yes ... and to indict someone on a perjury charge you have to have witnesses ... which means somebody who wasn't talking before, started blabbing ... my money is on Anderson.

[jaybird2001wi]

ESPN.com has a pdf file of the actual indictment document on its website. I have yet to look through it, but for you legal eagles out there, here it is.

What really concerns me is what Major League Baseball will do or say in response to this indictment. Heck, they banned Pete Rose for gambling. You all think they will do the same with Bonds? You really can't delete his record from the record books, heck a lot of industries and countries have bad parts of their histories that they will not "delete" from its education books.

Reminds me of the Family Guy episode where Stewie and Brian are in Germany for a tour and it went something like this:

Brian: I am enjoying this brochure history pamphlet, but there seems to be a blank between 1939-1945.

Tour Guide: THEY WERE ON VACATION!

Brian: What are you talking about? The Germans....

Tour Guide: THEY SPENT A LOT OF DAYS ON THE BEACH!

Brian: You know Germany is famous for brew pubs.

Tour Guide: Ah yes....

 

If they choose to delete his record, it would be in complete denial of what really went wrong with baseball during the steroid era. Rose's record is still there, so I am pretty sure they won't delete Bonds' home run record. The record will likely be broken in a few years anyway by ARod.

 

MelGroceryStocker, it does seem to me that Anderson is the one who wanted to put an end to this charade, as stated in the document for "background."

[billyhallfan]

so I am pretty sure they won't delete Bonds' home run record.

 

How could they, you would have to wipe out everyone else's records, everyone just needs to accept that baseball took steroids, and move on.

[MelGroceryStocker]

Gambling didn't help Pete Rose in getting hits. I am no Rose fan, I'm indifferent towards his HOF induction ... there's just no way baseball is going to legitimize a record after it's proven inauthentic in a court of law.

 

You don't have to wipe out everyone else's records, I don't get why anyone is saying that. If Bonds is convicted, you erase Bonds' records. Each case would have to be tried on its own. Just because Bonds goes down, doesn't mean every single player suspected of using steroids will go down. They would each have to be tried separately.

[bball123h2]

ESPN reports that Greg Anderson was ordered out of prison today. I'm guessing he's singing.

[Brian the Automator]

The record is not his if he's convicted. There's no way.

 

but if you do that, then you have to take Neifi Perez's name and all statistics out of baseball too, you can't just go after one guy because he was better than everyone else?

Neifi has statistics?