Billy Joel sings 'Pressure' to Barry Bond's amigo Greg Anderson

Well, truth be said, Billy Joel didn't really sing this to Barry Bond's buddy Greg Anderson - but it more than certainly applies these days. Here's why according to the NY Times:

Federal authorities are considering criminal charges against both the wife and the mother-in-law of Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds’s former personal trainer, in an effort to pressure Anderson to testify against Bonds, according to a lawyer for Anderson’s wife and other people with knowledge of the case.

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NY Times: Family of Bonds’s Trainer Feeling More Pressure

Bud to Jeff: No Barry Bonds Collusion

Commissioner Bud Selig said Tuesday: "We have not found any indication of anything other than clubs making individual decisions that this player is not appropriate for them."


SF CHRONICLE: MLB dismisses collusion charge from Bonds' agent

Barry Bonds' 756th homer ball arrives in Cooperstown

The ball Barry Bonds launched for his record 756th home run last season landed this week in Baseball's Hall of Fame. The souvenir arrived in Cooperstown, N.Y., after a strange day of back-and-forth statements between its owner, fashion designer Marc Ecko, and the shrine.

"We are very happy to receive the baseball as a donation, and not as a loan," Hall spokesman Brad Horn said. "We look forward to adding this ball to our permanent collections."

Barry Bonds: Sorry, but it is no, no and no

Hey Barry! How's it going? We here at the The Barry Bonds Trial blog have not been on summer vacation. We have been doing a lot of research to see if an offer from an MLB team is coming your way.

Unfortunately, the bad news continues.

In Denver, they are calling you a has-been (article). The Braves Baseball Fan blog says that they don't want you. An L.A. Angels blog says "no." And even your own agent, Jeff Borris, says that you won't play - in the minors that is.

What's the leading home run hitter to do?

Well, we don't have an answer, unfortunately (yet).

However, your lovely Aunt Rosie does. She sends her love and she says its the owners fault and a few other things.
Take care, Barry.

A Target Letter for Nicole Gestas

According to the New York Times and several other sources, Federal officials have told Nicole Gestas (the wife of Barry Bonds' personal trainer Greg Anderson) that she is a target of a criminal investigation.

Legal experts say that this is another attempt to ratchet up the pressure on Anderson to cooperate.

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Chicago Tribune

New York Daily News

Bloggers are (always) blogging about Barry Bonds

As usual, sports fans continue to think and talk about Barry Bonds. Here are a few random thoughts from some random blogs.

1. Here's one poor, desperate Met's fan praying for just about any solution, as he writes: Don't laugh at me, but maybe we should consider Barry Bonds AND Ken Griffey Jr.
2. And here's the Bleacher Report, for the 762nd time, talking about Barry Bonds and the Summer Of 2001.
3. And then here is a blogger bringing up good old Dusty Baker. (Remember him? The new manager of your last place Cincinnati Red Stockings) He delivers this excellent piece of baseball trivia: Dusty Baker has managed the last three players to achieve the 600 club home run milestone: Bonds in San Francisco, Sosa in Chicago and now Griffey. He was there for Bonds' 600th, on Aug. 9, 2002.
   

Dressed in a black suit, Barry Bonds said nothing during the five-minute arraignment. His attorney pleaded "not guilty"

Former San Francisco Giants baseball player Barry Bonds arrives at the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Calif., Friday, June 6, 2008. Bonds pleaded not guilty to 15 felony charges of lying to a federal grand jury about his performance-enhancing drug use. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

The Barry Bonds debate in Boston

Well here we go again .... now it is the Beantowners turn to start to ask 'Barry Bonds related questions,' like: "If the call comes, does Theo Epstein pick up the phone?"

Everyone on both sides of the Charles River is now fully aware that the prognosis for David Ortiz is mostly a crap shoot at this point. He could be gone the rest of the 2008 season. He could be back by the All-Star break. Who knows???

So ... what a Red Sox fan going to do? What is Theo Epstein going to do?

The next couple of days and weeks should be very interesting.

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A Barry big debate

Could Fenway be Barry’s next home?

Does anyone miss Barry Bonds?

Mark Purdy of the Mercury News apparently does not. He's just sitting in front of his monitor waiting for The Barry Bonds Trial to begin (among other things).


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Purdy: A trial to make low-profile Bonds sit up

Barry Bonds: 15 felony counts

Feds unveil new indictment against Barry Bonds

By PAUL ELIAS – 3 hours ago

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Barry Bonds was charged in a new indictment Tuesday with 15 felony counts alleging he lied to a grand jury when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and that he hampered the federal government's doping investigation.

The career home run leader originally was indicted in November by a federal grand jury on four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice.

Following a motion by Bonds' lawyers to dismiss the case, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in February ordered prosecutors to rewrite the indictment because multiple alleged lies were lumped into single charges.

On Tuesday, a grand jury handed up a superseding indictment charging Bonds with 14 counts of making false declarations to a grand jury in 2003 and one count of obstruction of justice. No new lies were alleged.

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Player's Union: concerns and more concerns

Union express concern over lack of offers to Barry Bonds

By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer

NEW YORK (AP)—The players’ association has expressed concern to the baseball commissioner’s office over the lack of offers to Barry Bonds, asking for additional information about the offseason’s free-agent market.

The union did not go as far as to file a collusion grievance on behalf of the 43-year-old outfielder, who remains unsigned since the San Francisco Giants decided not to make him an offer last year and he became a free agent.

“We’ve raised both general concerns and some player specific concerns,” Michael Weiner, the union’s general counsel, said Tuesday.


Yahoo! Sports

It is May, and there is no MLB home (yet) for Barry Bonds

Will it be in Detroit, Toronto or Oakland ... or nowhere at all???


USA Today: Should Tigers replace Sheff with Bonds?
MLive.com, MI - Apr 30, 2008

Where Can Barry Bonds Find a Home?
Bleacher Report, CA - May 2, 2008

Blue Jays Won't Buy Into Bonds
National Post, Canada - May 1, 2008

A's need to sign Bonds to help team, draw fans
The Argus, CA - 12 hours ago