This huge decision, with three other leaders ending in a hung jury, points of evasion of bonds before a grand jury about the use of a needle, that is to say, cheating, involving his line of work.
He was probably convicted that count these words and also for the tears of a confidante, his former personal shopper Kathy Hoskins, who obviously would not be in the courtroom in San Francisco.
A "Barry was like,"Just doing here"," Hoskins testified last week, saying that she had seen links with his personal trainer, Greg Anderson. "Barry just removed his shirt and he said: ' it's Katie. This is my daughter. It is not to say nothing to anyone. ??”
Hoskins said that Anderson was then given links an injection in the abdomen and that bonds told him: "it is a little somethin' ', somethin'' when I go on the road.". You cannot detect it. ?
Connections, 46, will call and try to avoid prison, which is his right, but baseball also has to understand what to do about the slugger who is retiring after the 2007 season. Even the one count of obstruction of means across the industry, to undertake an omertà during frolics home run of the late 1990s and early this decade.
Yes, the country has more problems and Yes, the trial was expensive, but people should worry about presents a conviction because of the refusal of bonds of the needle. There are rules against of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, in part to ensure that the rules of fair play and in part because these drugs can be unhealthy for young people. By his own behaviour, bond has acted as if he was breaking the rules, he knew. It does step care, but we must.
There are precedents for personalities in sports who break the rules.
George M. Steinbrenner was suspended for several years to have escaped from prison and illegal campaign contributions. Pete Rose is ineligible for the Hall of Fame because he lied to the game while managing the Reds. Baseball now has a legal reason for the manufacture of ineligible bonds in the room.
It is a shame in a way, because obligations has been one of the greatest mixture of speed and power never to put on a baseball uniform. He went to a career of Fame, in his mid twenties long before have inflated and began hitting shots circuit at a record pace.
Baseball is now stuck with more of a verdict of guilty for Barry Lamar Bonds. It is also bogged down in a complete stretch limousine of the greatest sluggers of this generation: Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro and who admitted partaker of steroids, Alex Rodriguez, who is 145 homers behind obligations after a homer Wednesdaynot to mention Manny Ramirez, who is retiring week last face a suspension of 100 - game for positive tests for banned drugs.
Baseball may well exclude 762 career home runs bonds or his 73 homers in 2001. He strikes them. Is not one of those deals N.C.A.A. in which a team of basketball "releases" its place in the Final Four for breach of any.
In addition, bonds hit no doubt some of these circuit blows off pitchers who were filling up - even if no off the coast of Roger Clemens, the Launcher great himself obtained in difficulty in 2008 when he testified in front of the House Committee on Government and reform monitoring.
Perhaps lulled by the servile, flagrant by some members of the Committee, Clemens came off the coast as a blowhard as he denied having used performance-enhancing drugs. Apparently, later informed lawyers the members of the Committee that the history of Clemens does not add: he has been charged in 2010 and will stand trial in July.
There are a few commonalities between Clemens and obligations, in that the two relied on a trainer. Man links, Greg Anderson, chose to go to jail than testify, while Clemens man, Brian McNamee - once hailed as a genius who knew how to get Clemens and his sidekick Andy Pettitte in great shape - was encouraged to sing against his old pal.
Bonds and Clemens also appear to have learned the lesson of major sports, which is that athletes tend to feel that they exceed the standards of ordinary citizens.
This ambiguous verdict on bonds comes six years after a congressional hearing in which McGwire tatonné of whether if that he used illegal steroids or other disreputable substitute. He has since admitted it juice - but only for the health and recovery, never for an edge - and is not ready to be voted in the Hall of Fame.
On Wednesday evening, Commissioner Bud Selig issued a statement praising the rules of baseball and testing of drugs, but referring only obliquely to "allegations concerning the conduct of the former players."
There is no allegation; It is a conviction for the leader of home run of career for obstruction of justice. Major League Baseball should deal with it.
Except in the case of any further decision, Clemens and obligations become eligible for the Hall after the 2012 season, when they were removed five seasons. They must receive 75 percent of the votes of certified baseball writers.
With which joint decision Wednesday, career of Barry Bonds may be assessed by the testimony of a friend with tears in eyes, who said that she saw injected by his coach. A needle, a count, a reputation.
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