News Flash: Bonds' career is over!!!!!

[fatkid]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4730658


Barry Bonds (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?playerId=1785) still has yet to formally retire from baseball. But the career of the major leagues' reigning home run king is over, his agent says, according to the San Francisco Chronicle (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/09/SPUI1B20LT.DTL).
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<!--END INLINE MUG-->Bonds has insisted he won't retire, leaving open the possibility that he might yet catch on with another team. But that hasn't happened, and his agent doubts that it ever will, according to the report.
"It's two years since he played his last game, and if there was any chance he'd be back in a major-league uniform, it would have happened by now," his agent, Jeff Borris, said Wednesday, according to the report.
Bonds, now 45, last played in 2007, when he led the National League in three offensive categories with the San Francisco Giants (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=sfo). But in November of 2007, a federal grand jury indicted him on perjury charges, alleging he lied when he testified he had never knowingly used performance-enhancing drugs.
No free agent offers came the following winter and spring.
"When 2008 came around, I couldn't get him a job. When 2009 came around, I couldn't get him a job. Now, 2010 ... I'd say it's nearly impossible," Borris said, according to the report. "It's an unfortunate ending to a storied career."
If it's truly over for Bonds, his career ends with 762 home runs, 1,996 runs batted in and seven National League MVP awards.

[BigAlCardsFan]

So, do you think he gets in the Hall Of Fame? And I don't mean by his numbers, because that's obvious.

Will people vote for him?

[Pins McGee]

I think he has zero chance of getting in on the first few ballots, but after more time passes, i think all of them (Mac, Rocket, and Bonds) will all get in.

[wiggly]

I think Bonds gets in on the first ballot, and the argument will be that he was a great player before he started on the steroids.

[BigAlCardsFan]

I think Bonds gets in on the first ballot, and the argument will be that he was a great player before he started on the steroids.

The problem is we don't know when the steroids started..

I believe that when he played in Pittsburgh, he was one of the best players in the game. And I think he was probably clean. The juice helped him out as he got older.

[East Side Jackalope]

Before Pujols, he was the greatest player I had ever seen play.

[DailyBalance]

The problem is we don't know when the steroids started..

I believe that when he played in Pittsburgh, he was one of the best players in the game. And I think he was probably clean. The juice helped him out as he got older.

Agree. I think it's funny that now that McGwire is coming back and evidently to admit all of his sins, a lot of the idiot baseball writers have said they are okay with him getting into the Hall, and they'll vote for him. Bonds should get in first ballot, but don't expect it, cause those self righteous assholes need to show everyone who is in charge.

[RolandC]

I think Bonds gets in on the first ballot, and the argument will be that he was a great player before he started on the steroids.

I tend to agree with this statement in theory, but I also think that the personal nature of this whole ordeal (his behavior, the roids, the drama) will keep him out initially.

[East Side Jackalope]

I think we talked about this before and I'm too lazy to look it up, but does the 5 years before voting for the HOF start from the last year he played or when he retires? Maybe he is dumb enough to think everyone will forget what a dick he was.

[BigAlCardsFan]

From the last you played. There may be papers you fiile with the league upon announcing your retirement, but if you haven't played in 5 seasons, they will put you on the ballot..

[simpleton]

Ha!

The former mistress of home-run slugger Barry Bonds testified tearfully at a federal trial Monday that Bonds verbally and physically abused her after he began using steroids around 2000, seven years before he broke the record for lifetime home runs.

Kimberly Bell, who was romantically involved with Bonds for about nine years, told the jury Bonds threatened to cut off her head, cut out her breast implants and to burn her house when he could not reach her by telephone.

"He was just very controlling," said Bell, her voice breaking with emotion. Under questioning by a prosecutor, Bell testified that Bonds told her he was using steroids sometime in 1999 to 2000.

After he began taking the drugs, he became aggressive, impatient and abusive, Bell testified. She said his testicles also shrank and that he became unable to perform sexually.

Bell said she became Bonds' lover before his second marriage, and they continued their relationship during that marriage. Bell told the predominantly female jury that Bonds broke up with her in 2003 in a telephone call when he told her "to disappear."
She testified that Monday in court was the first time she had seen the retired San Francisco Giant. On cross-examination, a defense attorney asked Bell if she had a "tremendous amount of practice" telling her story because she had told it in at least 20 media interviews. Bell acknowledged doing lots of interviews.

"On how many of those radio shows did you cry when describing this information?" asked Cristina Arguedas, a member of Bonds' defense team. "None, right?"

Bell, a star witness, attracted many spectators. The courtroom was full before the trial even started, and an overflow room for public viewing was crowded when Bell took the stand.

Bonds is accused of lying to a grand jury in 2003 when he testified that he did not knowingly take steroids.



http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/03/barry-bonds-mistress-testifies-slugger-threatened-to-cut-her-head-off.html

[wiggly]

I would love to see Bonds be banned from baseball. Then he and Pete Rose could go on vacation together every year during the HOF ceremony.

[Midnight]

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/02/15/amd_kimberly_bell_barry_bonds.jpg

[Flappy McB]

Guilty of Obstruction of Justice. No link yet.

[mjonns]

Guilty of Obstruction of Justice. No link yet.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6347014

hung jury on the other 3 counts

[wiggly]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6347014

hung jury on the other 3 counts

Disappointing.

[rutkap]

i was only half listening, but it was 11-1 on those counts and someone had something personal about someone involved in the trial and he/she refused to convict.

[BIGTOE]

"I asked Barry Bonds for an interview twice, he told me to get lost both times. I won't ask a third time"
-Jack Buck

Disrespect Mr. Buck and you can go to hell for all I care.

[Poor Wiggum]

i was only half listening, but it was 11-1 on those counts and someone had something personal about someone involved in the trial and he/she refused to convict.

so because some dipshit apparently made it all about him/herself Bonds gets away with CLEARLY lying to Congress? Only in America.

[Wilt223]

i was only half listening, but it was 11-1 on those counts and someone had something personal about someone involved in the trial and he/she refused to convict.

So will they try to take him to court again?

[mjonns]

i was only half listening, but it was 11-1 on those counts and someone had something personal about someone involved in the trial and he/she refused to convict.
that's not true. one of the charges was 11-1. one was 8-4 and the other was 9-3. so it was more than just one.

while I agree that lying to congress or under oath is what this country is founded on and is very important, the gubment probably spent well into the 10 million dollar+ range to prove one quarter percent of what we ALL FUCKING KNEW ANYWAY. bonds did steriods? really, his fucking head grew NINE sizes. just stupid in my opinion. I cant see them taking him back to court. matter of fact, the jury spokesman said the prosecutors better get some better material if they want to prove these charges. kind of a slap in the face.

so 10 million dollars spent on all of this balco stuff and 3 atheltes who no one gives a fuck about spent a total of 3-6 months in prison. bonds will get home confinement.


im drunk