Perjury? That seems like a means to try to threaten him into confessing. Last I heard, he was investigated for perjury and no charges filed.</p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds, baseball's home run king, was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice Thursday and could go to prison instead of the Hall of Fame for telling a federal grand jury he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.</p> The indictment, culminating a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes, charged Bonds with four counts of perjury and one of obstruction of justice. If convicted, he could be sentenced to a maximum of 30 years in prison.</p> Shortly after the indictment was handed up, Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, was ordered released after spending most of the past year in prison for refusing to testify against his longtime friend.</p> The 10-page indictment mainly consists of excerpts from Bonds' December 2003 testimony before a federal grand jury investigating the Bay Area supplements lab at the center of a steroid distribution ring. It cites 19 occasions in which Bonds allegedly lied under oath.</p> An attorney familiar with the investigation told ESPN's T.J. Quinn that the government obtained the results of positive steroids tests for Bonds during a search of BALCO facilities. The source said the positive results did not come from confidential testing conducted by Major League Baseball and the players' association. In approximately 2001, MLB conducted tests to gauge the level of substance problems among players. The government subpoenaed those records.</div></p> http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3112487</p> He hasn't been convicted yet though.</p>
He was indicted 3 weeks ago, after 4 years of talking about it but doing nothing. I obviously missed it.</p> Reading some of the other links on the ESPN page above, it's not clear that the govt. has much of a case. The drug test results seem to be what they want to use to corroborate the testimony of witnesses, though the circumstances of the test are suspect to say the least. That, and the guy who ran BALCO (and who went to jail) says his company never gave/sold anything to Bonds.</p> </p>
I don't follow baseball, but I was surprised to see Sosa's name not on the list. That guy looks huge, he was one of the guys I thought would be juicing.</p>
Sosa was on the list (see post #1). I never thought he looked all that big, FWIW.</p> I do think Bonds did steroids, but it seems like he's been able to skate anyway.</p> </p>
Holy crap, Jeremy Giambi sucked when he was on Steroids, imagine how bad he would have been if he wasn't?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GMJigga)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> I don't follow baseball, but I was surprised to see Sosa's name not on the list. That guy looks huge, he was one of the guys I thought would be juicing.</p> </div></p> This list is FAR from a comprehensive list of all the players that used steroids.</p> It's basically just names culled from a report on how baseball screwed up and how to proceed in the future.</p> And every player named is in association with very specific sources (BALCO, Signature Pharmacy, Kirk Radomski) with very different levels of verification of their drug usage.</p> We will NEVER, EVER know all the players who broke the law, cheated and forced others to make terrible choices.</p> What the report is clear about is that baseball looked the other way and did nothing about this issue until it was far too late.</p> </p> </p>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Denny Crane)</div><div class='quotemain'></p> Sosa was on the list (see post #1). I never thought he looked all that big, FWIW.</p> I do think Bonds did steroids, but it seems like he's been able to skate anyway.</p> </p> </div></p> </p> My source was wrong. I should take that out.</p>
Sheffield and Justice...that's when they were on the Yankees, right? Surely, the Braves would never tolerate cheating!!</p>
Yeah, Sosa wasn't actually listed as a steroid taker. He was only mentioned once in the entire report.</p> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>During the course of this investigation, we interviewed a number of coaches, club personnel, former teammates, and other persons who know McGwire. Only Canseco, who repeated the allegations from his memoir, said he had knowledge of McGwire’s alleged use of steroids. Through his personal lawyer, I asked McGwire to meet with me for an interview about these issues, but he declined to do so. I then sent his lawyer a list of specific questions about whether McGwire had ever used steroids or other performance enhancing substances without a prescription during his major league career, in the hope that McGwire would be willing to provide a response outside of the context of an interview. Neither McGwire nor his lawyer responded to that letter. (I sent similar letters with specific questions to lawyers for Barry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, and Gary Sheffield, none of whom provided answers to my questions either.)</div></p> Yeah, those guys were just going to jump out at the opportunity to say that they were using a drug that wasn't prescribed to them (and that was steroids). That was it for Sosa in there, that was the only mention.</p> McGwire had his name dropped a ton on there.</p> Sosa really wasn't that huge. He had all those little nagging injuries, and the prolonged recovery times that indicate that he wasn't on the roids. He also had a career rise/breakdown similar to that of an NBA player (age wise) as far as body build up and breakd down.</p> I doubt Sosa used roids, otherwise I doubt he'd be messing with trivial things like corking his bat. A lot of the steroid use seemed to be a team culture. I remember reading a report where the Cubs were notified after the corked bat incident that they had two hours to get every corked bat out of the clubhouse. Apparently everyone on the Cubs had had a corked bat (and multiple). Bat corking seems to have been the Cubs cheating method.</p>
