The Barry Bonds Trial: August 2009

Friday, August 28, 2009

According to Barry Bonds, "life is good"

When asked if life was lonely after baseball, former San Francisco Giant left fielder, Barry Bonds, told a TMZ ambush reporter that it’s good. The reporter asked, “is it lonely at the top?” And after joking with a friend, Bonds replied, “life is good…see…real good,” as his Ferrari pulled up to the curb.

read the TMZ article

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Barry Bonds hits another one, it is (asterisk) going, going, gone

Friday, August 14, 2009

The Asterisk, Part II, by Hank Aaron

Now, it seems, Old Hammerin' Hank isn't sure about the benefits of "The Asterisk" (Part I). You know, the asterisk he spoke about when he was at Cooperstown recently.

Did someone have a talk with good old Henry?

Well, read the article and let us know what you think.

Here's what Hank knows today. That Barry Bonds is still number one. That he had a great career. And that nobody will be able to figure out the steroids mess.

Journal Sentinel article

Monday, August 10, 2009

Barry Bonds Unsealed

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge told prosecutors Friday to redraft their indictment of Barry Bonds and made public his grand jury testimony, revealing a previously unpublicized drug test from seven years ago that showed an elevated testosterone level.

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston ordered prosecutors to fix Bonds' indictment so that each of the five counts against him don't cite multiple statements that prosecutors say are false.

Prosecutors originally accused Bonds of lying 19 different times during his grand jury appearance, and charged him with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice.

article

A selection of Barry Bonds' comments regarding PED use:

"Doctors ought to quit worrying about what ballplayers are taking. What players take doesn't matter. It's nobody else's business. The doctors should spend their time looking for cures for cancer. It takes more than muscles to hit homers. If all those guys were using stuff, how come they're not all hitting homers?" -- May 21, 2002, Associated Press
"No. I don't have to [use steroids]. I mean, I'm a good enough ballplayer as it is. I don't need to be any better. I can't get any better at this age." -- June 2002, On the Record with Bob Costas
"I never asked. When he said it was flaxseed oil, I just said, 'Whatever.' It was in the ballpark.. in front of everybody. I mean, all the reporters, my teammates, I mean they all saw it. I didn't hide it." -- Dec. 4, 2003, during grand jury testimony, according to the San Francisco Chronicle
"I don't know Tim Montgomery. I've never met him. When accusations come from someone you don't even know, what can you do?" They'll be talking to my lawyer." -- June 25, 2004 to USA TODAY in response to allegations from a former world-class sprinter that he received steroids from BALCO
"All you guys lied! All of y'all and the story have lied. Should you have asterisks behind your name? All of you lied. All of you have said something wrong. All of you have dirt. When your closet's clean, then come clean somebody else's." -- Feb. 22, 2005, first public comments after testimony was leaked
"I don't know if steroids are going to help you in baseball. I just don't believe it. I don't believe steroids can help eye-hand coordination [and] technically hit a baseball." -- Feb. 22, 2005, first public comments after testimony was leaked
"You wanted me to jump off the bridge; I finally have jumped. You wanted to bring me down, you've finally brought me and my family down. You've finally done it. So now go kick a different person. I'm done. I'll do the best I can and that's about it. [I'm talking about] inner hurt. I'm physically, mentally done. I'm mentally drained. Tired of my kids crying." -- March 23, 2005 on MLB
"I went through the system. And that's what it is. And that's what I got. I went through the system. I'm in an appeal process right now. I was never convicted of steroids. Do I have any regrets? What happened happened. It's there. It is what it is. I live with it. I'm a convicted felon for obstruction of justice, and that's who I am. I live with it." -- May 29, 2012
"I gave my life and soul to that game. That's what's heartbreaking. That's the hard part of it." -- May 30, 2012 on MLB
"Not winning? [the 2002 World Series] It doesn't stick with me anymore. Right now, it's just good to see everyone and have a good time. Win or lost, it's nice just to come home and reminisce with each other." -- July 1, 2012
"Oh, without a doubt. There's not a doubt in my mind." -- August 6, 2012

The Barry Bonds Trial