Bonds Before the Grand Jury

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ShysterBall: Bonds Before the Grand Jury
Published 3/3/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
ShysterBall: Bonds Before the Grand Jury Holy Konopka Funeral Home Studies!...Right after Calcaterra read the Books of Bokonon backwards, listened to Zaireeka in Zweikanalton Sound and spent time pulling longation hairs out of his White Mana burger...he read the entire Barry Bonds grand jury testimony! So I sat down yesterday and read the entire Barry Bonds grand jury testimony (what, you think I have a life?). First observation: I can’t believe that BALCO lawyer Troy Ellerman went to all that trouble—and now is in jail for over two years—to leak this to Lance Williams and ...

The Case Against Bonds
Published 3/3/2008 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
ShysterBall analyzes the Bonds grand jury testimony and concludes the government is going to have a tough time convicting Barry: There are about 70 more pages, but they're pretty much all variations on the above themes. Overall Barry seems evasive and defensive, but like I said, not so much that there's perjury on the face of his testimony. If he's going to get got, the government has to put someone on the stand to call him a liar. And that's pretty much that. Given the indictment being temporarily thrown out on Friday, it's going to be a long time before Bonds gets to trial. ...

…. Perjurific
Published 3/3/2008 by John at Only Baseball Matters
ShysterBall has an in-depth look at the Bonds indictment: …. To understand why I think this indictment is weak, you have to understand one simple thing: this is not a case about whether Barry Bonds took steroids. He did. That he did is pretty painstakingly documented. Indeed, to the extent you hear someone talking about Barry Bonds as likely to be convicted because, yes, he did take steroids, feel free to ignore that person because they don’t know what they’re talking about. For purposes of this perjury case the fact of his actually taking ...