After over seven years of government pursuit, the Barry Bonds trial came to and end.
16 days of speeches, deliberations, more speeches and some testimony the conclusion looked more like the end of the 2002 All Star Game where we so no real winners and just a lot of questions still to be answered.
Of the four charges filed against Bonds, he was found guilty on one which was the obstruction of justice charge. George Dohrmann of SI.com believes that they ended up finding Bonds guilty of rambling, of dancing around a question, of being (for anyone who has ever interviewed him can attest) Barry Lamar Bonds.
Unfortunately for Bonds, the outcome of this trial does nothing to clear his name or make him look better in the eyes of fans or the media. he smiled at a few passersby who shouted, “We still love you, Barry!” He waved at a bus full of children, some of whom yelled his name. Asked if he would be going out for a celebratory dinner that night, Bonds looked down, and he could have been speaking for everyone involved in USA v. Bonds when he said:”There is nothing to celebrate.”
As far as the MLB goes, commissioner Bud Selig did release a statement giving MLB’s take on the last two weeks of deliberation and testimony over one of baseball’s biggest fallen stars.
“This trial,” he said, “is a stark illustration of how far this sport has come.”
Source: SI.com, Yahoo Sports
