Barry Bonds Indicted On Perjury…

Written by Charles on November 16, 2007 – 1:59 am

The long awaited, and probably widely anticipated, indictment of Barry Bonds came out today. Bonds has been indicted on perjury, and obstruction of justices charges that if convicted he could face a maximum of 30 years in prison. The investigation into Bonds and other elite athletes about their use of steroids has been ongoing for a few years and it appears as if it is finally coming to a head. Earlier this year Marion Jones plead guilty to similar charges in the same investigation and faces up to 6 months in prison.

Bonds however is by far the most high profile athlete to be linked to the case at all. The slugger set baseball’s all-time career home run record earlier this year, all while publicly stating that the hallowed record he had just broken was in no way tainted. Bonds went so far as saying he would boycott the Hall of Fame if the ball that broke the record had an asterisk stamped on it (by the owner of the ball) and put on display in the Hall of Fame. Whatever your feelings on Bonds and his alleged use of steroids is, this is certainly a watershed day in the history of the steroid era of baseball. What will happen to Bonds record, and his legacy as a whole, if it comes out that he did in fact take steroids. Keep in mind that the charges are that he lied while under oath about taking steroids, not that he actually took them. However if committed, that would obviously be as close as we could ever come to actually knowing for sure whether or not he took any steroids, and that’s all we can hope for I guess.

-Charles

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