Sorry Barry, Billy Beane wants youth (without the baggage)

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane says the team's movement toward youth and development is a sign home run king Barry Bonds probably isn't in the plans.

Beane wouldn't comment directly on whether Bonds may join the A's when he spoke today at A's Fan Fest.

KESQ

Bonds' lawyers ask judge to trim indictment

Lawyers for Barry Bonds asked a federal judge Wednesday to dismiss part of his perjury indictment, saying prosecutors had asked the former Giants slugger "fundamentally ambiguous" questions when he testified before the grand jury investigating the BALCO steroids scandal.

In that 2003 hearing, Bonds told the grand jury under oath that he had never used a long list of banned drugs, including the undetectable steroid "the clear," and said he had not been given drugs by his trainer, Greg Anderson.

San Francisco Chronicle


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Bleacher Report

Now, the bill for the selling of a franchise's soul comes due

Bonds got the record last season. The Giants received eight consecutive seasons with an attendance of more than 3.1 million.

Now, the bill for the selling of a franchise's soul comes due.

SportingNews

Selig: Barry Bonds' team should have reported concerns about the hitter's personal trainer to Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, left, and Donald Fehr, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, are sworn in before testifying before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Miguel Tejada, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens

Congress Aims at Tejada, Clemens, Bonds

By HOWARD FENDRICH and JOSEPH WHITE

WASHINGTON (AP) — Taking on baseball's steroids problem once again, Congress kept the finger-pointing and tough questioning to a minimum. Maybe that's because the people under the most scrutiny this time — Miguel Tejada, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens — were nowhere to be seen.

Commissioner Bud Selig and union leader Donald Fehr accepted responsibility for the sport's drug boom and the author of the Mitchell Report defended his findings in the same wood-paneled House hearing room that hosted a far longer and far more contentious session in March 2005.

It didn't take long for the focus to shift to players Tuesday.

MLB looking at San Francisco Giants execs and officials

Baseball May Discipline Giants Hiding Drug Concerns

By Danielle Sessa

Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Baseball is considering discipline against San Francisco Giants executives and officials from other teams who may have failed to report suspected steroid use by players, Commissioner Bud Selig said.

Get your Official Barry Bonds bat and ball! Cheap!

Online bidding under way for Bonds' bat, No. 754 home run ball

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Online bidding began Tuesday for Barry Bonds' 754th home run ball along with the bat the home run king used between Nos. 754 and 755, the latter of which tied him with Hank Aaron.

Sotheby's/SCP Auctions will handle the sale of both items at www.scpauctions.com after also assuming the duties for the No. 755 ball and No. 756, which Bonds hit Aug. 7 to break Hammerin' Hank's 33-year-old record.


USAToday

MLB Trade Rumors - Barry Bonds

Slusser On Barry Bonds Possibilities

MLB Trade Rumors recently asked Susan Slusser (beat writer for the San Francisco Chronicle) a few questions regarding where Barry Bonds will end up during the 2008 MLB season:

MLBTR: Could you see any team beside the A's signing Barry Bonds? In your estimation, what's the most the A's would pay for a year of Bonds

Slusser: An insider told me at the winter meetings that two other teams besides the A's had asked about Bonds .....

MLB Trade Rumors

Wonder if Barry Bonds noticed what happened Friday (to Marion Jones)?

Jones' fate sends a message that many need to hear

Wonder if Barry Bonds noticed what happened Friday? Wonder if Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee and the cast from that new saga noticed?


USAToday

About Jeff Novitzky

Novitzky's reach extends from BALCO to Clemens
By Josh Peter, Yahoo! Sports


If the defamation lawsuit Roger Clemens filed against his former trainer proves one thing, it's this: Some of the most prominent people implicated in the ongoing steroids scandal have found a common target.

He stands 6 feet, 6 inches and sports a clean-shaven head.

He works for the Internal Revenue Service, though some might assume he is employed by the FBI or DEA.

He sifted through the trash outside the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. And the evidence he collected set off a scandal that has called into question the reputations not only of Barry Bonds, Clemens and dozens of other athletes, but also his own.


Yahoo!Sports

Did Barry Bonds notice the Mark McGwire HOF vote count today?

2008 Baseball Hall of Fame Voting
January 8, 2008

Today, Rich "Goose" Gossage was elected Tuesday to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Below are the results of the balloting with 406 of the 543 votes (75 percent) required for
election:

Name/Ballots received/ Percentage

Rich Gossage 466 85.8
Jim Rice 392 72.2
Andre Dawson 358 65.9
Bert Blyleven 336 61.9
Lee Smith 235 43.3
Jack Morris 233 42.9
Tommy John 158 29.1
Tim Raines 132 24.3
Mark McGwire 128 23.6
Alan Trammell 99 18.2
Dave Concepcion 88 16.2
Don Mattingly 86 15.8
Dave Parker 82 15.1
Dale Murphy 75 13.8

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Goose quote: "I think that if you did do performance-enhancing drugs, you need to come clean and put an end to this. Just fess up." [Rich "Goose" Gossage]

Barry Bonds - picking up the 2007 awards

Barry recently picked up the following awards:

Steve & the Tank: Barry Bonds, person of the year 2007


MSNBC: Whiner of the Year, Balco Barry Bonds


Epic Carnival's: Sports Clown of the Year (3rd place)

Barry Bonds - Select quotes of the past year

Barry Bonds made the "Select quotes of the year (2007)" list via the Detroit Free Press:

• “You mean that little midget man who absolutely knows (very little) about baseball, who never played the game before?" - Barry Bonds, asked about criticism of him on Bob Costas' HBO show.

• “I will never be in the Hall of Fame. Never. … I won't go. I won't be part of it, I won't be there, you can call me, but I won't be there.” - Barry Bonds, interviewed on MSNBC's “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” on what he would do if the Baseball Hall of Fame accepts his record 756th home run ball marked with an asterisk.

Detroit Free Press