Barry Bonds sentence

[classy]

A federal judge handed Bonds a sentence of 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service on Friday


http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Akxecp1N0Nn9KdUhduA7bCo5nYcB?slug=ap-bondssteroids



I am not saying Bonds is squeaky clean, but regardless, estimates say the prosecution spent close to 40-50 million to try and convict him.

Priorities just aren't right on many levels nowadays.

50 Million to try and catch a guy using peds for a damn baseball game.

 

[zinfamous]

agreed. retarded allocation of funds.

 

[DrPizza]

50 million to bust someone for lying to Congress, not for using drugs. Let it send a message that Congress takes things very seriously.

 

[actuarial]

50 million to bust someone for lying to Congress, not for using drugs. Let it send a message that Congress takes things very seriously.

Yeah....lie to congress and we'll ground you for a month.

 

[CPA]

I'm not much in to legalizing drugs, but I do think that steroids should be legalized. Not sure why, just doesn't have the same stigma as other drugs.

 

[Dirigible]

50 million to bust someone for lying to Congress, not for using drugs. Let it send a message that Congress takes things very seriously.

A) It's still not how I want the government spending my money.

B) Seeing how often congress lies to us, them getting all huffy over lying just seems silly.

 

[Via]

It probably cost him tens of millions of dollars in endorsements and some one-year contracts the end of his career that surely would have been 15-20 mil each, so at least he did have to pay something.

 

[classy]

To add to this, I could even understand if this was a situation like what appears to be with the Chicago Bears wideout. But to waste all that money and hundreds of man hours to try and prove a guy juiced to be a better ball player, I just don't understand that.

 

[OutHouse]

50 fucking million dollars to do this shit? but giving a homeless guy a sandwich is too expensive?

 

[preslove]

50 million to bust someone for lying to Congress, not for using drugs. Let it send a message that Congress takes things very seriously.

And congress subpoenad him over PEDs. All of those congressional hearings were just an excuse for a bunch of baseball fans to bitch about PEDs and to demagog it into the ground.

 

[hclarkjr]

i hope they did not hurt his wrists to bad when they slapped them, geeez what a waste of money

 

[IAteYourMother]

50 million to bust someone for lying to Congress, not for using drugs. Let it send a message that Congress takes things very seriously.

I agree that the case should've been pursue aggressively, but at a point, it was pretty clear that the fed's case wasn't strong enough to deal much punitive damage against Bonds, at which point it should've been dropped. Feds kept pushing the case and wasting resources simply to save face.

 

[paperfist]

To add to this, I could even understand if this was a situation like what appears to be with the Chicago Bears wideout. But to waste all that money and hundreds of man hours to try and prove a guy juiced to be a better ball player, I just don't understand that.

I think Bonds was just the face of it and Balco was a firm pushing steroid engineering.

 

[Homerboy]

Classy, I think you are totally missing what this trial/sentence was for. Hint: it wasn't for PEDs.

That being said, I think it is funny that somebody found guilty of perjury gets grounded for a month.

 

[airdata]

50 million to bust someone for lying to Congress, not for using drugs. Let it send a message that Congress takes things very seriously.

Yeah.

No wonder Bush & Cheney weren't under oath for their 9-11 commission testimony.

 

[MotionMan]

I basically agree with the sentiments stated above.

Not to turn this into P&N, but this is exactly the reason why, when reviewing propositions, I first check to see if it involves giving any more money to the government, be it called a tax or free or whathaveyou. If it does, I vote against it.

The government has more than enough money. They just need to learn to spend it better.

That was $50 million (if that is the right number) that could have been spent on the homeless, education or infrastructure.

To all the Bonds-haters, even if he had ended up in jail for 18 months, would it had been worth it?

MotionMan

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

He’s not just a ballplayer, he’s an inventor -- the first man to make an asterisk out of a syringe.

Wait till his autobiography gets released. Then he will make another few million