The Barry Bonds Trial: January 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Barry Bonds' amigo, A-Rod, doing the PED thing again

A-Rod implicated in PED use again as MLB probes

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Barry Bonds helps girls in Alameda

The Barry Bonds Family Foundation has provided Girls Inc. of Alameda County with a $10,000 grant. Girls Inc. provides programs to help poor girls from 5 to 18 years old and helps about 7,000 girls every year.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Barry Bonds: Buy My Beverly Hills Mansion, please

MLB Hall of Fame runner up, Barry Bonds, is selling his Beverly Hills mansion for $25 million.

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Friday, January 11, 2013

Bud Selig on Barry Bonds

"It is, what it is."

- MLB Commissioner, Bud Selig

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Barry Bonds reaction to Hall of Fame news: Aloha!

Baseball: Barry Bonds reaction to Hall of Fame news: Aloha!: We haven't yet heard any official word from Barry Bonds and there's probably a good reason for the silence from his camp. The former San Fra...

Ken Burns on Barry Bonds

The Hollywood Reporter: Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and Mike Piazza are all on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. Would you vote for them?

Ken Burns: No.

THR: Ever?

Ken Burns: I want them to suffer for a while.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Larry Baer: the voters need to sort some things out

“This was the decision. It’s difficult. There have been complications in determining Hall of Famers throughout history, and it was more intense this year for sure. I think over time we would hope he’d be considered to be another Giant in the Hall of Fame. We also understand the voters need to sort some things out. That’s what I feel.” --- Larry Baer, President, San Francisco Giants

Hall of Fame Voters send Barry Bonds a message

Hall of Fame Voters certainly send Barry Bonds a message in his first year of HOF eligibility. The slugger got 36.2 percent of the vote, less than half of the 75 percent required for election.

Barry Bonds denied Hall of Fame entry

Barry Bonds

rejected by baseball's

Hall of Fame in today's vote.

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

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