While sitting at Boston Beer Works down by the Boston Garden last night, half-way into my first beer of the night, breaking news came across the wire.
Barry Bonds had been officially indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice.
What makes this so interesting is:
1) Arguably he could be considered the greatest baseball player of all-time
2) His entire defense is going to be that he never "knowingly" took steroids
and
3) We all knew this was coming and we all knew he did some sort of performance enhancing drugs.
Allow me to explain #3 a little bit more. I am by no means a doctor and have never taken anatomy class. But seriously, your head does not get bigger and your feet don't grow when you enter your late thirties. Also, you don't put on 35 pounds of muscle in your late thirties.
Rocket Science this is NOT.
I think my feet stopped growing at size 12 when I was about 15 and I still wear a small/medium baseball cap. I could put on thirty-five pounds if it involved me sitting on the couch, watching soap operas and eating double-quarter pounders with cheese 2 or 3 times a day.
To be fair to the indictment, this is all about him lying to a grand jury during the BALCO investigation. The testimony he gave was sealed by the government and he could have told the truth (or as Stephen Colbert would say, TRUTHINESS). But no, he assumed he could say whatever he wanted and would never have to answer to anything.
That attitude is a problem going back for years. Barry Bonds is NOT a good person. He grew up with a silver spoon up his patoot and was always the best baseball player at every level he played. No one ever told him "no." Now, this "better than all the rest" attitude could land him up to thirty years in jail (more realistically, less than a year) and to be honest, at this point, it is something I would like to see.
On another note, yesterday baseball also announced record-high revenues of $6 billion dollars and Alex Rodriguez signed the largest contact in history, 10 years for $275 million. Go Figure...
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