Are We Going To Find Out The Truth About Bonds And Steroids?

• December 28, 2006

Perhaps, if the feds can put Bonds’ name to a positive “anonymous” drug test conducted by MLB.

AP – The names and urine samples of about 100 Major League Baseball players who tested positive three years ago can be used by federal investigators, a court ruled Wednesday — a decision that could have implications for Barry Bonds.
The ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could bolster the government’s perjury case against Bonds if investigators are able to link his name to a positive test from baseball’s anonymous testing in 2003. The San Francisco Giants slugger has been the target of a perjury investigation since he testified before a 2004 grand jury that he didn’t knowingly use illegal drugs.
The decision also could help authorities find the drug sources. Those who tested positive could be called before the federal grand jury and asked where they obtained their performance-enhancing drugs.
Greg Anderson, Bonds’ personal trainer, is currently in prison for refusing to testify in the perjury probe. Anderson previously was convicted of steroids distribution.
During 2004 raids on three labs involved in the MLB testing program, investigators seized computer files containing the 2003 test results. The unidentified samples had been collected as part of a MLB survey to gauge the prevalence of steroid use.
Baseball players and owners agreed in their 2002 labor contract that the results would be confidential, and each player was assigned a code number to be matched with his name.

This baseball fan is literally giddy at the idea of Bonds going down with a perjury charge. I’m not sure there’s anyone on this planet that I loathe more than Barry Bonds.

Tags: Politics, Sports

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I do hope we find out about Bonds. However the major news is those players that haven’t been thought of when steroids is mentioned. Also, I don’t want to hear about the rights of the players. Steroids are illegal unless prescribed by a medical doctor. I doubt that many of these players had a medical reason to obtain steroids.
Bat One

It is said by those who know, that there is nothing so difficult in all of sports as hitting major league pitching. To hit a 93 mile per hour slider or “splitter,” or a 98 mile per hour fastball takes an extraordinary degree of eye-hand coordination and bat speed.

In his early years with the Pirates, Barry Bonds was a pretty good line drive hitter. But he was certainly no power hitter. Later this year, if he is not suspended facing charges of perjury or contempt, Bonds will likely hit his 700th career home run, but without the amazing bulking up that took place after he went to San Fransisco, many, if not most, of those homers would have been routine fly ball outs.

Whatever happens to Barry Bonds, he will never outlive the asterisk.

But more important than Bonds is the fact of the 9th Circuit’s ruling itself (the 9th is far and away the most extremely left-leaning judicial circuit) and what that ruling says about the crumbling special legal exemptions baseball has enjoyed for so many years.

There has been a steady judicial shift back toward the center over the past few years (Wen Ho Lee, Judith Miller, NY Times, etc.), particularly in matters involving criminal investigations and prosecutions. There’s not much doubt that the MLB Players Association and other parties like Balco and Bonds will appeal this ruling. And not much doubt that the Supremes will uphold the 9th Circuit’s ruling either.

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