<![CDATA[Deadspin: steroid heroes]]> http://tags.deadspin.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/deadspin.com.png <![CDATA[Deadspin: steroid heroes]]> http://deadspin.com/tag/steroidheroes http://deadspin.com/tag/steroidheroes <![CDATA[Bonds Perjury Charges Breed, Multiply, Threaten To Overrun Small Town]]> One reason that no team wants to take a chance on signing Barry Bonds: The perjury counts from his BALCO grand jury testimony seem to be splitting like amoebas. On Monday he had four counts of perjury, and on Tuesday it suddenly became 14. As any biology teacher will tell you, that's reproduction by binary fission ... who knows where it will end? By June there could be millions of counts, and perhaps a new mammal species.

Bonds' legal team objected to technical flaws in the original indictment. By law, the government can accuse a defendant of only one crime per count of an indictment. Bonds lawyer Dennis Riordan contended that the indictment accused Bonds of telling as many as five lies in a single perjury count. Judge Susan Illston agreed, and ordered the government to rewrite the document. The new indictment broke each of the old perjury charges into multiple new ones.

This actually changes nothing, really. Bonds still faces a maximum of 30 months in jail if found guilty on all counts, same as before. It's just that now, all the counts are proportioned in smaller, bite-sized pieces.

You know, it really frosts me. Why would a major league team not offer a contract to an aging outfielder with no speed and bad knees who has a reputation as a clubhouse cancer, probably took cattle steroids for several years and has criminal counts that seemingly multiply like rabbits? Must be collusion.

Now Bonds Faces 14 BALCO Perjury Counts [SFGate]

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Since Roger Clemens has taken center stage as the poster doughboy for steroid use in baseball, Barry Bonds has quietly faded into the background. There will be an update on his perjury charges here, a question about why no MLB team is courting him there, but, for the most part, all of the shrieking Bonds ire has dissipated.

This shift in anger (or interest) is no more apparent than when Barry ridiculously popped up in rapper David Banner's video for "Get Like Me," showing off his swing and sporting a nondescript baseball hat straight out of a Tom Emanski video. Banner did his best to put it out there as a positive addition for his new video, not grasping how kind of bizarre it is :

"Barry Bonds came out!" Banner said with pride. "You know how y'all like to have your rappers' friends — Barry Bonds is here. Barry came fresh out of court to come holla at me. That's real."

Fresh out of court? Surreal, maybe. Bonds appears in the video at the 49 second mark. Maybe this is the only way he can attempt to generate interest from any teams looking for a big left handed bat in their lineup.

David Banner "Get Like Me" [On Smash]
David Banner Gets A List Of Support For 'Get Like Me' Video [MTV News]

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