Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
June 10, 2006
Bonds and Mitchell

Although the headline of this article is "Barry Will Talk," the gist is that Barry won't talk:

"I'd like Barry to cooperate with Sen. Mitchell," Rains said. "He'd like to cooperate. We believe Sen. Mitchell's investigation will be fair, thorough and impartial.

"But here's the problem: Anything that happens there can become fodder for the federal government and fodder for another book that will make reporters rich."

A federal grand jury is trying to determine if Bonds lied about drug use in his testimony to the BALCO grand jury. Bonds, whose alleged steroid use was detailed in "Game of Shadows" by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, also could face tax evasion charges.

"I thoroughly distrust the federal government's commitment to protecting anonymity," said Rains, whose client's testimony to the BALCO grand jury was illegally leaked to the Chronicle. "I've been asking for four years if this investigation is done. All I've ever got was double talk."

I don't see how Mitchell can keep what Bonds tells him within Major League Baseball. I've thought the report would be made public when complete. If not, somebody is going to leak it. So I don't see how Bonds, given the above statements of his lawyer, is ever going to talk to Mitchell.


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Comments

To me it shouldn't be a foregone conclusion that the law
will be broken. Implicit in this instance
is that the law breaker would not only not be punished, but might realize substantial gain (whether operating in the foreground or background). There are ways of
getting the goods that don't involve illegally leaked material (if the so-called reporters aren't too
lazy.)

Posted by: susan mullen at June 10, 2006 11:54 PM

If the law (leaking of grand jury testimony) was already done I agree with Bonds' lawyer's rationale for not cooperating with Mitchell.

Posted by: R at June 11, 2006 06:46 AM

Barry is a complete fraud and a disgrace. He's cheap and doesn't want to pay for extra lawyers fees.

Here's a good one, Barry and his lawyer are sinking in quicksand, who do you save?

Let em both sink and save the Giants 20 mill.

Posted by: Joe Fitzpatrick at June 13, 2006 02:59 AM
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