Barry Bonds indicted, saving me from having to find a video to close the day

November 15th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

Just as I was about to cap this pretty brutal day with a throwaway video post, this has to go and happen, forcing me to combine a throwaway post with extensive blockquoting. Important blockquoting, though; yes, mightily important!

Barry Bonds got himself in some trouble, yes he did:

Baseball superstar Barry Bonds was charged Thursday with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when he said he did not use performance-enhancing drugs.

The indictment, unsealed Thursday by federal prosecutors in San Francisco, is the culmination of a four-year federal probe into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury investigating steroid use by elite athletes.

“I’m surprised,” said John Burris, one of Bonds’ attorneys, “but there’s been an effort to get Barry for a long time. “I’m curious what evidence they have now they didn’t have before.”

Burris did not know of the indictment before being alerted by The Associated Press. He said he would immediate call Bonds to notify him.

The indictment charges Bonds with lying when he said that he didn’t knowingly take steroids given to him by his personal trainer Greg Anderson. He also denied taking steroids at anytime in 2001 when he was pursuing the single season home-run record.

“During the criminal investigation, evidence was obtained including positive tests for the presence of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances for Bonds and other athletes,” the indictment reads.

To paraphrase J.E. Skeets: Whoa boy!

I would analyze, but who knows if this will stick? It might, it might not. I don’t know. But I do know that the baseball offseason just got a lot less boring right as Alex Rodriguez news was getting increasingly grating. Funny how that happens.