One thing about this Barry situation, I think its pretty gay that its a Federal thing. MLB allowed it to happen, then there is a witchhunt for things that happened back in the past and the US Govt is involved.
I dislike him a human being, so I'm glad he's caught and likely won't ever play again, but I think its stupid that he was put in the situation of having to testify in a grand jury in the first place. You can't lie in that situation, but he's just as doomed if he tells the truth.
(So if your freshman dorm allowed you to drink beers, so you did it every weekend because that's the thing to do and who cares since no one is getting caught. Then 10 years later they came back and make you testify to underage drinking and you'd lose your job and be in trouble with the cops if you did it.)
But its MLB's fault. Why doesn't every employee of Major League Baseball have to go to jail for facilitating the atmosphere of 1988-2002?
Anyway, Uncle Sam - fix healthcare, the economy, the amount of money being spent in Iraq, and the volume of greenhouse gasses instead of wasting time on professional baseball.
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Yes, MLB enabled them all to use steroids and Bud Selig and his boys are giant hypocrites. Agree with all that.
However, this issue is Balco related, and not MLB related. This is the same thing that brought Marion Jones down. He was in federal court on Balco charges, and that's where he purjured himself and lied to a grand jury. That's what he is in trouble for..
In my opinion, I think your real gripe is with the Mitchell investigation.
Also, he testified back in 2003 because the Feds were after Balco, and not Bonds. Bonds was told that if he told the truth then he had immunity, a la Jason Giambi.
Giambi told the truth and had to deal with all that embarrassment.
Bonds lied to a federal judge and is now going to go to jail.
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