Barry Bonds’ steroid use was so “out of hand” that his former business manager made a secret recording in the Giants’ clubhouse as part of a campaign to dissuade the ballplayer from using banned drugs, the ex-employee testified Wednesday.
Steve Hoskins was Bonds’ boyhood friend and his business manager until a bitter breakup in 2003. That year, he testified, he recorded weight trainer Greg Anderson describing the array of steroids that he was allegedly providing to the Giants left fielder.
The above Chronicle account of part of the Bonds trial for perjury presents some questions.
Do we really care about steroid use to the point that the feds must get into it instead of just leaving it to baseball and baseball fans? Steroid use is not a crime but lying under oath about it is. Hence, the Bond prosecution.
What will we do to convict Bonds? A surreptitious recording in Calif. is a felony but no matter as it is used against Bonds.
Is this just another crime and/or prosecution the nation can do without?
written by the Firenze sage
