The Barry Bonds Trial: Mitchell report

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Friday, December 26, 2008

Barry Bonds sits for the integrity of the game

Jack Marshall, a professional ethicist, writer, lawyer and lifetime baseball enthusiast, writes at The Hardball Times the reasons why no MLB team signed Barry Bonds during the 2008 baseball season.

Yes, the reason has to do with the ethics and culture surrounding baseball - which differs from every other major sport.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Barry Bonds Back in Court Friday

Bonds Back in Court Friday

By Michael S. Schmidt

A week after the Mitchell report detailing the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball was released with the name Barry Bonds appearing 95 times, the home run king will be back in federal court.

A hearing has been set for 11 a.m. on Friday at the federal courthouse in San Francisco so the judge overseeing Bonds’ perjury case can hear arguments about whether lawyers representing him have a conflict of interest.

NY Times baseball blog

Monday, December 17, 2007

Lupica: Bonds doesn't get some sort of "Get Out of Jail Free" card

Don't forget about Barry Bonds

Until 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, officially all we had on Roger Clemens was that he fit the profile. Barry Bonds' profile.

It means his pitching career seemed to be on a parallel course with Bonds'. He picked up the same head of steam after the age of 35 that Bonds did. Made the same kind of money. Both were bigger than ever. In all ways.

NY Post

Friday, December 14, 2007

Bonds and Clemens: "no difference between them"

Clemens is no different than Bonds
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
December 13, 2007

Year after year he peddled the same garbage, Roger Clemens was so dominant for so long because he simply outworked everyone. It played to the nation's Puritan roots, made Clemens out to be this everyman maximizing his skills through singular focus, dedication and a commitment to drinking carrot juice, or something.

It's all gone now, the legend of Rocket Roger dead on arrival of the Mitchell Report; one of the greatest pitchers of all time, his seven Cy Youngs and 354 career victories lost to history under a pile of lies and syringes.

Barry Bonds: warned in advance of two tests in 2003

Bonds might have been warned of tests

By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds and his supporters often pointed to the fact that the home run king never flunked a drug test administered by Major League Baseball. The Mitchell Report suggests why: it appears Bonds received advanced warning of two tests in 2003.

Yahoo!News

Thursday, December 13, 2007

The Mitchell Report Has Been Released

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The Mitchell Report Has Been Leaked

Mitchell Report Leaked

The preliminary, leaked Mitchell Report names and includes the following current and former MLB players (supposedly MLB has told NBC that there are errors on this list):

Brady Anderson, Manny Alexander, Rick Ankiel, Jeff Bagwell, Barry Bonds, Aaron Boone, Rafael Bettancourt, Bret Boone, Milton Bradley, David Bell, Dante Bichette, Albert Belle, Paul Byrd, Wil Cordero, Ken Caminiti, Mike Cameron, Ramon Castro, Jose Canseco, Ozzie Canseco, Roger Clemens, Paxton Crawford, Wilson Delgado, Lenny Dykstra, Johnny Damon, Carl Everett, Kyle Farnsworth, Ryan Franklin, Troy Glaus, Rich Garces, Jason Grimsley, Juan Gonzalez, Eric Gagne, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Giambi, Jeremy Giambi, Jose Guillen, Jay Gibbons, Juan Gonzalez, Clay Hensley, Jerry Hairston, Felix Heredia, Jr., Darren Holmes, Wally Joyner, Darryl Kile, Matt Lawton, Raul Mondesi, Mark McGwire, Guillermo Mota, Robert Machado, Damian Moss, Abraham Nunez, Trot Nixon, Jose Offerman, Andy Pettitte, Mark Prior, Neifi Perez, Rafael Palmiero, Albert Pujols, Brian Roberts, Juan Rincon, John Rocker, Pudge Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Scott Schoenweiis, David Segui, Alex Sanchez, Gary Sheffield, Miguel Tejada, Julian Tavarez, Fernando Tatis, Maurice Vaughn, Jason Varitekm Ismael Valdez, Matt Williams, Kerry Wood

MLB's "not going to love it, the union's not going to love it"

Sources: Mitchell Report to name MVPs, All-Stars, won't address amphetamines
By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer
December 13, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) -- Judgment day arrived for baseball's steroids era, with the Mitchell report set to be released and posted on the Internet for all to see.

The first name to emerge Thursday was seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens.

Yahoo!Sports

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