What would be the best possible outcome in the Barry Bonds mess?
Today was supposed to be the day of reckoning — or at least, the beginning of reckoning — in the Barry Bonds’ case. The trial was going to start today.
That’s not happening. Federal prosecutors are appealing a judge’s ruling, and that means the trial could be delayed by six months or so.
We used to see Barry Bonds in a baseball uniform. Now, the images are of him in a suit, headed to court. Everyone pretty much agreed that his baseball career came to an abrupt end with his indictment on charges he lied about whether he knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs. Even if a team had taken a gamble on him, it would have been a huge risk. Now, the latest trial delays mean he will be pretty occupied with his criminal case, again, for at least the next six months. No time for baseball.
What would be the best possible outcome to this whole mess? A long trial at which more names come out? A plea deal? An apology from Bonds? (Ha. Not likely.) Or just whatever it takes to put an end to what has become one of the ugliest chapters in baseball history?
Bonds will never make a plea deal or admit to anything. It would be best for baseball if that would happen. It would also be quite a savings for tax payers. I think we will be hearing about this for a long time to come. Like O.J. he will use his money and celebrity status to get away with it only to fall into some other kind of mess.
Barry Bonds is certainly a Black man who has gotten under the skin of too many devious White men and they want his blood. Bonds is strong enough mentally to take whatever happens and what ever they throw his way. These people will not break him as they are trying so hard to.
By the time this case is all over many of those if not all who where out for Bonds’ blood will have their own storms to contend with but they will not be able to figure out why.
first tom,
In view of:
“Defense lawyers had the momentum going into trial, the advantage of a judge willing to throw out evidence that prosecutors said was key to their case and the refusal of a critical witness to testify against Bonds. Jury selection had been scheduled to start today.”
Ever think of the very likelihood that this case is a load of BS?
Barry Bonds and every sports pundit would board a small boat and drift deep into the South Pacific.
The best outcome for Bonds would be for a judge to smack down the gavel either saying “Case dismissed” or “Not Guilty”. Bonds would go home, but no one would really believe he was innocent. Enjoy your asterisk, jerk.
The best thing for MLB as an organization would be for this to just quietly go away. That isn’t happening. So suck it, MLB. You’re reaping what you sewed when you turned your head to the rampant cheating in your sport rather than doing something about it on your own. I bought no tickets to any MLB games this year, because I’m sick of $15 million/yr+ cry baby cheaters and $9 beers.
The best thing for baseball as a sport, and it’s fans would be a plea, apology, or a finding of guilt. We’re talking about a celebrity with deep pockets, here, so unless there’s a smoking gun, there’s no way any of these are happening.
Why don’t they just prove his headsize grew inches due to HGH and get out one of his hats from earlier in his career. If the hat don’t fit, you can not acquit!
People are only picking on Bonds because he’s black…….
Because he’s black???? Give me a break. Where I grew up, it cheating. Same for McGwire, same for Conseco and all the others. They should be thrown out of baseball on their high priced ears. The only * by their names should be CHEATER.
Thank God we here in STL have real heros to remember Stan, Ozzie, Willie, Dizzy - Gentlemen and true representatives of the game.
What SHOULD happen: Bonds’ both literally and figuratively swollen head will be bronzed and sent to Madame Toussaud’s museum, to accompany the rest of the freak-show exhibits. We would allow public opinion to determine whether the head is summarily removed now or after Bonds dies a natural death.
REALLY what should happen? If major league baseball had a commissioner with either a backbone or an ounce of integrity, Bonds’ HR record would have already been erased and Hank Aaron reinstated as the all-time home run champion, as everyone outside San Francisco and Bonds’ family knows he should be. But this would require acknowledging the farce that has been drug policy and enforcement in the league since Selig took office, and this would be too embarrasing. This morally-bankrupt organization has to save what little face it has left to save.
so what WILL happen? Probably, nothing. All the solid evidence against Bonds is getting declared inadmissable. The fix is in, folks. Business as usual.
While I certainly believe that there are legitimate reasons to target Barry Bonds, comparing him and/or his alleged crimes to OJ Simpson is more than a little strange.
Why is it strange, km? The only comparison I see in any of the posts to OJ Simpson references the fact that OJ used his money and celebrity status to get away with a crime. I don’t see how that’s strange. Nobody is comparing lying and cheating at baseball to murder, here.