Barry Bonds (Juiced Merge)

[MaxBuck]

I don't like cheaters, that's no secret. But Bonds took cheating to a new level here when he tried to cheat the system by lying on the stand. If he tells the truth at grand jury, then this would have been over years ago. That's his fault.

And like Gator said, you can't turn your back on high-profile perjury. There are enough people out there that think they can lie on the stand without worry of any reprecussion. It happens in courtrooms every day... in criminal courts, civil courts, domestic courts. The oath is one of the bedrocks of American jurisprudence and the public needs to know that there are real consequences for lying on the stand.

And before we get into this "but he wasn't convicted" nonesense, lets please look at why he wasn't convicted. Quite frankly, if I were on the jury, I may have had a difficult time finding that the gov't proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt. But outside of that venue, in the court of my opinion, Greg Anderson is the lynchpin of Bonds' guilt. I cannot fathom a common sense reason for his lack of cooperation other than his testimony would have buried his friend. So, yeah, I'm pretty sure he's guilty - which, in my opinion, justifies pursuing the case to trial.

Whatever. You're entitled to your opinion, obviously, but reasoning like this is why our country is $14 trillion in debt - "you just HAVE to spend the money on [insert "urgent and necessary" action here]."

 

[OH10]

Whatever. You're entitled to your opinion, obviously, but reasoning like this is why our country is $14 trillion in debt - "you just HAVE to spend the money on [insert "urgent and necessary" action here]."

And I would suggest your reasoning justifies the perception that, if you have enough money, you can buy your way out of trouble. The only reason this investigation cost so much money is because Bonds could afford to take it this far. Well, that and the fact that he's a lying sack of shit.

 

[MaxBuck]

And I would suggest your reasoning justifies the perception that, if you have enough money, you can buy your way out of trouble.

Geez, welcome to reality. That's the way it's been for thousands of years, and it won't change anytime soon.

You can buy your way out of small trouble, that's for sure. Big trouble is another matter, but in the grand scheme of things, being evasive when you speak to a grand jury is not "big trouble." Sex with underaged people, sex with animals, murder (sometimes) - those are the "big trouble" you can't buy your way out of. Otherwise, yes, that's the way life on earth works.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Cheese makes my poop hard.

 

[MaxBuck]

Cheese makes my poop hard.

That's also the way life on earth works.

 

[OH10]

Big trouble is another matter, but in the grand scheme of things, being evasive when you speak to a grand jury is not "big trouble."

Sure... that's what he did. He was "evasive."

 

[NFBuck]

Ten Years After 756, A Reminder of What Barry Bonds' Record Really Means

Ten years ago tonight, the sequoia of Major League Baseball records fell and the damnation of it was not that nobody heard it; it was that so few people cared.

For all of his great skill, the most unimaginable achievement in the career of Barry Bonds is not that he broke the all-time home run record, but that he debased it.

https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/08/07/barry-bonds-756-home-runs-10-years-asterisk

Still an ass.