There isn’t much to say about Barry Bonds being convicted for obstruction of justice on Wednesday, other than he and the rest of MLB’s liars had it coming to them.
Bonds, along with Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa were all lying through their teeth when asked if they had taken steroids or performance enhancing drugs.
And like any other liar, Bonds had to tell more lies to cover up the original lie. But Bonds carried his lies a step further when he didn’t tell the truth before a grand jury in 2004.
Some might argue that the prosecutors didn’t make their case in trying to convict Bonds on all four counts of the indictment, but the justice system doesn’t always arrive at logical conclusions.
Bonds won’t have to endure much punishment though because the jury failed to convict him on three of the four counts, but anyone following baseball over the past decade knows he’s guilty.
The most damaging conviction Bonds’ receives will come from the court of public opinion, and the resulting sentence will be far more harsh than anything the justice system can dole out.
Instead of being a man and coming clean, Bonds chose the easy path, just like he chose the easy path when he decided to cheat and use PED’s.
Now Bonds will be forced to take the hard path, the path that will lead him to nowhere.
It’s the same path that McGwire, Palmeiro, Clemens, Sosa and Manny Ramirez are currently traveling, the one that could have been avoided had they just told the truth.
Baseball’s all-time home run king will never be inducted into the Hall of Fame because he chose the wrong path, the one that he had complete control over but ignored.
Because of his ignorance, Bonds, along with the rest of MLB’s liars, are getting what they had coming to them. In that regard, justice has been served.
Rub some clear cream on that Barry.
