Daily News: Bonds Looking at Indictment

[Guest Edgy DC]

Story.

[MFS62]

Will this be used as the amunition Bud needs to suspend Barroid for "conduct detrimental...." or the citizenship clause (whatever that wording is)?

He'll be able to point to the standard contract wording as his "out" for making that decision and say he was just enforcing an existing rule. It will be easier than suddenly revealing that Bonds was the other shooter on the Grassy Knoll and a decision most baseball fans outside of San Francisco would agree with.

Later

[nymr83]

i'd ban him for life if he was actually convicted for perjury (thus "proving" he took steroids knowingly.) the income tax thing isn't, imo, baseball's business.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Statistician looking to out Bonds with cirumstantial evidence: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115282930909306252-NUNIOLvP8H5b_kWD8x9ze2AAUrk_20060812.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

[soupcan]

That kinda excuses Bonds.

[metirish]

No Bonds indictment, but grand jury still open
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

July 20, 2006, 2:09 PM EDT


SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors said they would not seek an indictment Thursday against Barry Bonds, but that a grand jury investigating the baseball star for perjury and tax evasion charges would continue its work.

"The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California is not seeking an indictment today in connection with the ongoing steroids-related investigation," Luke Macauley, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco, said in a statement.

"Much has been accomplished to date, and we will continue to move forward actively in this investigation -- including continuing to seek the truthful testimony of witnesses whose testimony the grand jury is entitled to hear," he said.

Members of the grand jury investigating Bonds arrived at the federal courthouse Thursday for what was expected to be their final day of work.

Mark Geragos, attorney for Bonds' personal trainer, told The Associated Press his client would be released later in the day from federal prison, where Greg Anderson was sent more than two weeks ago after he refused to testify to the grand jury.

The judge said Anderson was to be held until he agreed to testify against Bonds or the grand jury's term expired. With the grand jury apparently being extended beyond Thursday, it was unclear whether Anderson still will be released.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice going Joel Sherman:
I've been complaining about this for years, but at least now someone with an audience says so too. And it's not that I think we fans or the law should be more lenient on baseball and their drug problems, just that the overall media treatment is totaly lopsided as compared to other sports in general, and football in particular.

As he mentions, a doctor was just sentenced to a year in prison over a conspiracy to distribute steroids and other illegal drugs in a case involving 7 memebers of the then Super Bowl bound Carolina Panthers. And while it might be understandable that it hasn't generated as much national interest as the Bonds case, the fact is it's generated virtually no publicity - not even as much as the Jason Freakin Grimsley affair.

So while the baseball press was late with their mea culpas about not being more pro-active in searching for the story that was there are along, the football press is being handed a story which surely goes beyond this one incident and they're as silent as can be.