Bonds and more bonds

While I love living in a free country, sometimes some things don't make any sense. 

Opening statements in the Barry Bonds perjury trial should also have been closing statements.  Prosecutors said basically they were going to prove Bonds used steroids.  Bonds lawyers said that Bonds admits he used steroids.  Bonds lawyers said he thought they were other things and prosecutors said that was crazy,  They plan on calling an ex-girlfriend and an ex-business partner to the stand to prove he knew they were steroids.

REALLY?

They are seriously prosecuting Bonds because he said he didnt know they were steroids?  Seriously?  The guy who gave him steroids has admitted already that they were roids and has also made it clear that he takes full responsibility for this fact.  For 8 years, the Federal Prosecutors have spend unreal amounts of money to go after a guy because they THINK he knew?  Why is this that big of a deal?  Did Bonds call a special Congressional hearing to say he didn't use?  Did Bonds refuse to testify under full immunity?  Does Bonds specific knowledge of the contents change the case against everyone else (who already pled guilty)?

Whether you believe Bonds or not, the Government is spending tons of money to take Bonds to court because they think he might have lied.  They are calling ex-girlfirend and ex-business partners (who both clearly hate Bonds) as credible witnesses?  They also wanted to enter in tapes of Bonds yelling on the ex-girlfriends answering machine as proof of roid rage.  Even I know what a ridiculous thing that is!  He admitted to using roids already, that fact is now stipulated, thus making such a tape a pure unadulterated attempt at making the jury hate Bonds and purely prejudicial..

Bottom line is that the prosecutors are stretching at this with no credible witnesses to go after a guy for a very simple technicality.  If today Bonds came out and said "I did it, I knew it, and I am just playing around with the government because I can"... then I would want the book thrown at him.  Until then, he will pay the price others who used steroids did but any further prosecution is a complete joke.

(With this said, it is important to note I have always supported Bonds because I think the media has always come after him and he has always fought back.  The media is a ton more powerful than people think and it was good to see a guy fight back.  I have often said Bonds is paying a much higher price for his steroid use than any other user ever.  I dont care much about prior steroid use since cheating has been apart of baseball for years and while i dont condone it, I also dont single players out when they were just a very small part of a HUGE problem of systemically approved cheating in  baseball). (cheating can range from sliding hard to break up a double play, which is illegal since the player is already out.  pine tar, cork, proxiimity rule at 2nd base, doctoring ball, using uppers...... do I need to go on and on?)

If you noticed, my title mentioned "more bonds" not "more Bonds".  This is aimed to Arizona.  Folks, get yourselves in a room and work this out.  Stop continuing to jerk fans around.  A guy wants to rescue your NHL team (who knows why) so work together to help it happen. 

These issues coupled with the NFL nonsense has got me wondering when rich people and lawyers were ever going to stop using our courts for vendettas, personal recognition, and and greed.  All 3 cases should not be in our courts and there is a good chance we will all get to fund some part of all 3 of these.

That's the joke...... I hope you are laughing!