I am trying to follow the Barry Bonds trial (thank you unnamed tweeter) and I am finding myself increasingly sick over this. The government really could have avoided this sham and saved us all a ton of money. Let's say they prove Bonds knew he was using. Let's say the jury actually has 12 impartial people. Let's say they find him guilty. Do we (the people) win? Nope. Bonds might go to jail but meanwhile the people are paying for the trial and then for Bonds jail time. Why not let him plead no lo contendre (spelling) and pay a fine and be done with it. Bonds can say he paid the fine to avoid trial. The government can claim it means they made him pay for lying. We can all be done with this sham and waste of money.
Please understand that the previous paragraph is ASSUMING they find him guilty. If they do not, then the government will have wasted all sorts of money and resources over nothing. For those not paying attention, it seems the government gave a deal to Mr Haskins that allows him to avoid jail to take the stand and make all sorts of accusations. He without question made multiple tapes to try and blackmail Bonds. Those tapes are now put into evidence against Bonds. Humorous that somehow we allow illegally taped conversations that were made specifically to commit an illegal act to be the main evidence about someone else. So our government believes that saying you didnt know you were taking steroids is worse than embezzling, forgery, blackmail, and purgery (sp)... yes, purgery, (sp). Haskins lied many times and was caught but he will get away with it because he lied to help the feds.... kinda ironic, huh? And we wonder why Bonds has said multiple times that he doesn't trust the government.
Bonds has never been a sympathetic character (thank you media) and the Feds are hoping that our distaste for the HR king will allow us to overlook that they were ok putting a guy on the stand who lied to try and help them put someone else away for lying. Again folks, Bonds may have lied or he may have really blindly trusted his trainer and SHOULD have asked more questions. I dont know and nor do I care. Fine him and be done.
MORE THOUGHTS on other things:
Despite being embarrassed, I want to commend the Montreal Canadians. They took a few cheap shots in their loss to the Bruins but in the end when they were completely and thoroughly beaten, they didnt just go out and throw around fists out of anger. The NHL needs to address a few cheap shots but in the end we didnt see a donnybrook like I expected, so cheers for the losers for not embarrassing the league.
Folks, the NCAA tourney is awesome theater. However, when will they learn to give mid majors a shot. Missouri St dominated their conference and lost the conference tourney final in a great game and were eliminated from contention to allow teams with 10-14 loses to have an 11th-15th shot at it all. The best tourney stories are always the mid majors. GIVE THEM A SHOT!!! I dont ever want to see the 9th or worst team in any conference in the tourney again. SERIOUSLY! I'd rather see Harvard, VCU, Richmond, Butler..... than people who arent in their own conferences top 8!
No matter how old I get and how much I despise WWE, I still turn it on every once in a while. I grew up with it and while the sex and storylines are over the top, it still brings me back to the times in my youth when I enjoyed seeing the "Superfly" (even with a rowdy coconut to the noggin), the evil Russian (singing their anthem) vs Sgt Slaughter, or Roddy Piper putting up a poster of William Perry in the Boston Garden after the Super Bowl. I now know a ton of that athleticism was drug (steroid) induced yet it doesn't tarnish the memories. Wonder if I will think the same thing about Bonds, McGwire, and Sosa (you can bet it wont tarnish those memories either).
The NFL and NFLPA are very close to losing a fan. I know they don't care but I am so disgusted at thsi point that it is getting close to the point where even if they don't miss games, I won't come back for a while and when I do, it wont be the same. (See NHL)
Some of my favorite people to follow on twitter are: ScottMatusow (Mike's brother), RealKidPoker (Negs), RickWarren (Saddleback Church Pastor), GlobeChadFinn (funny and Boston related), TexDolly (mostly for the blonde jokes I cant admit to my wife that I find funny), nickmangold (will root for his team to lose by 10000000000 every time, but I like his tweets), MikeandMike, KaraOTR (Kara Scott), AdamSchefter (please start tweeting more on UFL!!), markfwespn (for the Bonds trial so far)...... I also enjoy the poker brat, the hit woman, and others, but these are my faves for now. You can follow me and the 10 tweets a year that arent in my blog at #FramCire
Time to run and clean the house. Feel free to comment here or on twitter or facebook!
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