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Since the government was able to convict the BALCO defendants so easily and it has so much evidence against Bonds that the testimony of Greg Anderson wasn't necessary to indict, why were Bonds and all of these other high profile, elite athletes called to testify against BALCO in the first place? It appears that an objective of the U.S. Attorney's office was to humble these elite athletes. Either force them to admit, for the record, that they used performance-enhancing drugs, or else face perjury and obstruction of justice charges. Perjury-baiting seems increasingly likely. Humbling elite athletes is not a legitimate or proper function of the judicial system, and it strongly suggests that there is some sort of a vendetta working here. This explains why Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada never had to face their own obstruction of justice charges for stonewalling the Justice Departments investigation into the leak of the sealed Grand Jury testimony, once former attorney Troy Ellerman stepped forward. The vendetta was against elite athletes, not journalists.

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I understand in the earlier days of baseball, cocaine
was sometimes used as a baseball performance enhancer. Maybe it still is. I dont recall all players being tested for cocaine.

Barry Bonds is innocent.

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For all the world, it looks like Bonds' head is caved in, in that pic.

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News Flash. Doctors have reported that Barry Bonds suffers from a new disease called, O.J. Simpsonitis (no guilty complex and avid liar). In addition, inside investigator to the Mitchell Report have revealed Mr Bonds, owns a private condo near the river of De-Nile!

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Stanfordfan - Barry Bonds was breaking the law. Marion Jones was breaking the law. The prosecutor was willing to give them immunity for their wrongs provided they testified truthfully. Would the government go so easy on you or me? Of course not. Yet they failed to tell the truth (Jones admittedly and Bonds allegedly) and should be punished. The fact they were elite athletes (and without steroids, their eliteness is questionable) probably resulted in them receiving more favorable treatment than had they been otherwise.

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It amazes me how so many people jump on the BEAT UP BARRY bandwagon. The guy has been a great player reguardless of whether he did or didn't. Did it ever occur to any of you that maybe Greg Anderson didn't have anything to tell. Come on people don't you know a sham when you see one. Barry said he "never knowingly" since when is that a lie. Barry is his own man and GOD smiles whenever he gets an at bat,so clean your own yards and leave Barry alone.

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I agree this is all a vendetaa again Barry. okay he may had lie a little since when it tha a crime look at Mr President Bush he lie to the whole country was he charged with anything,No. To me if Barry could be charge so should the president.

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When is it a Federal Offense to LIE? Money is being wasted as there are more important issues the feds need to be dealing with. For example' the war in Iraq, Pres. Bush lied about WMD?,will he be indicated?Leave Barry Bonds alone.

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THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS MAKE A FOOL OUT OF A LIAR.

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I'm 41 years old and neither my hat size nor my shoe size has increased since I was about 15. All of you Bonds supporters, come up with a logical explanation for the increases in size in Bonds' head and feet. I have friends who are clean body builders in far better physical shape than Mr. Bonds, and they have not experienced any significant size increase in those areas. I wish I could be naive and be a Bonds supporter too, but intelligence prevails in this one, folks. Bonds was a great player, but he ruined his credibility thru his personality, his cheating and then his willingness to lie about it. Not much of a man in my book. And the people who now support him are either completely naive, or idealistic fools.

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it amazes me that the only time someone is gone after is after the fact. it also amazes me that no matter what comes of any of this it still takes a lot of ability to either have the ability to hit a round ball with a round bat at up to 100 miles an hour but of course all the doubters have probably never been able to do that so let's just be judge and jury instead i am an avid baseball fan and will be the first to admit that salaries like what a rod got is ridiculous. no athlete is worth all the money they get. when the strike happened i lost a lot of faith in baseball but yet still realized what ability it takes to play the game. Pete Rose is not only the greatest player but the one who got screwed the most. the same ones attemptin to bring all these athletes down are probably the same ones who are doing a lot worse.

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What great role models we have here.What do we tell our kids who love baseball or any sport? It's ok to cheat (taking steroids). It' ok to steal(breaking a record).It's ok to lie(deny,deny,deny).Or do we say it's wrong? We tell our kids drugs are wrong.We tell them excess drinking is wrong.What do we tell them when they ask about steroids? Do we tell them its wrong? Or do we tell that winning at any cost is the way go.

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What great role models we have here.What do we tell our kids who love baseball or any sport? It's ok to cheat (taking steroids). It' ok to steal(breaking a record).It's ok to lie(deny,deny,deny).Or do we say it's wrong? We tell our kids drugs are wrong.We tell them excess drinking is wrong.What do we tell them when they ask about steroids? Do we tell them its wrong? Or do we tell that winning at any cost is the way go.

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